Bill Gates, whose full name is William Henry Gates III, founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. From 1995 to 2007, he topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people for 13 consecutive years.
He became the richest man in the United States in twenty years.
Microsoft's legend began with the release of Windows 95.
Nowadays, Microsoft, which has been founded for 16 years, is still in the early stages of development. It is not that the company is developing too slowly, but that it has failed to keep up with the pace of the times.
The real information age will begin in 1994 and 1995 when computers and mobile phones became popular.
Prior to this, no matter how much the information technology industry developed, it could not be compared to a hair in the financial industry.
The 36-year-old Bill Gates looked at Sosuke Kitahara, who was only 27 years old, with admiration and curiosity in his heart. This young man was almost ten years younger than him. He was also considered a young genius. He was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 18 and founded the company at the age of 20.
Microsoft, 16 years later, is now considered a giant in the information industry in the United States and even around the world.
But compared with this young man from Japan, he is completely worthless.
Kitahara Sosuke became famous in 1989. In just 2 years, the total assets of his company have exceeded 28 trillion yen!
Converted into rice gold, that’s a terrifying 280 billion!
Today, Microsoft's total output value is less than 10 billion yuan!
Only one-twenty-eighth of the Kitahara clan club.
Is this the strength of the Japanese consortium?
Bill Gates has not been to Japan, but he has indirectly learned about the country's top financial groups from many places, and how several families control the economic lifeline of a country. This kind of thing actually exists!
And in such a monopolistic and unhealthy market, it is simply incredible that Kitahara Sosuke can still carve out a way out.
The key is that it only took him 2 years to reach this height.
Bill Gates once thought that he was the son of destiny, but compared with Kitahara Sosuke, he was just an ordinary person with better luck.
Therefore, with curiosity and reverence, he resolutely agreed to Sun Zhengyi's suggestion and worked with Beiyuan Technology to develop Windows 95.
"Hello, Mr. Gates, I am Sosuke Kitahara." Sosuke Kitahara walked into the Empire Hotel in New York with him, smiled and extended his hand.
The two hands were tightly clasped together.
"Hello, Mr. Sosuke Kitahara, I'm Bill Gates. It's an honor to meet you. Haha, your English is really very good. If you didn't say you are Japanese, I would have thought you were chatting with an American." Bill.
Gates said with a smile.
Luo Meng did not follow him any more, and even Sun Zhengyi wisely waited outside, allowing the two real bosses to go to the private room to chat.
The two of them stepped into the box, and there was no one waiting inside. This was the most private space, ensuring absolute safety.
As soon as he sat down, Bill Gates couldn't help but ask Kitahara Sosuke why he wanted to work in the information technology industry.
In fact, in his opinion, the current financial industry, real estate industry and real estate industry are still the main ones. Even in the United States, computers are only used by some special companies and governments and have not yet become popular. If you really feel that this industry has a future, you can enter more
Easy mobile phone industry.
"I think personal mobile phones will be widely available in the next two to three years, and personal computers, to be honest, may take a long time to wait."
Bill Gates sighed.
Although this is the direction he has been working hard for, he is unable to promote the development of the general environment and cannot predict the changes of the times. He can only try his best to do his best.
Today, Microsoft's main business is still serving the government, so it is difficult to compare with those companies with huge scale.
He said that, but he really wanted to see the scene where personal computers took over the world.
Kitahara Sosuke smiled and suddenly said: "I think it will not be too late for the popularity of personal computers, it will be around 1995. Of course, this does not mean that every household can easily purchase a computer, but
It means that it officially enters the public eye and becomes a daily necessities that people recognize, just like home appliances such as TVs, refrigerators.”
"95 years? That's four years later? That's too fast. Even in the United States, this speed is..." Bill Gates frowned, wondering why Kitahara Sosuke had such strong confidence.
But when he thought of the information and his ability to accurately predict the changes of the times, Bill Gates couldn't help but be shaken.
In 1995, it happened to be the time when he wanted to release Windows 95.
Could it be that he was deliberately trying to show off to himself in order to obtain the right to use R&D?
Bill Gates was a little confused and confused. He shouldn't have done it. With Sosuke Kitahara's worth and ability, if he really wanted to engage in information technology, he could do it himself.
Kitahara Sosuke has much more connections and resources than Bill Gates. It would be weird if he only valued Windows 95, which has not yet appeared.
After all, information technology is too weak compared to the industry he is currently working in.
The only possibility is that Sosuke Kitahara saw the prospects of this industry at a glance and felt that it would have huge investment space in the future.
Many Wall Street financial giants like to do this kind of thing.
If your vision is one month ahead of the times, you can easily become a millionaire.
If your vision is one year ahead of the times, you can easily become a billionaire.
And if your vision is five years ahead of the times, what can you gain?
Bill Gates couldn't imagine it.
"I still think it's a bit slow." Kitahara Sosuke smiled and spread his hands, "Mr. Bill Gates, you are a technology person. Is the development speed of technology constant?"
"Of course not. To be precise, technology research and development is something that is accumulated over time, bitter first and then sweet. In the early stage, you invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources, but you may not get anything in the end. Maybe one day, your technology will be
If the research and development is in place, you will gain a lot of wealth in one fell swoop!”
Bill Gates smiled and said, this is what he has always encouraged himself to say,
"It has been 16 years since I founded Microsoft. Different from Mr. Kitahara's strength along the way, in the first ten years of my business, I made very little profit, but I did not give up. I always insisted on the research and development of technology and invested a lot of money in it.
funds, and after 1990, computer technology has improved significantly, and Microsoft has gradually improved."
He paused and continued,
"And such changes are rapid. In one year, 1990, I got the total income of the previous 15 years! This is technological research and development."
"That's it. I believe that in the future, the monetary profits brought by information technology can also be accumulated over time just like technological research and development!" Kitahara Sosuke said with a smile, "It seems slow now, but as long as you get through the most difficult node
, we can reap unexpected benefits! This is my judgment."