Bill Gates

Bill Gates was an American computer scientist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who is best known for co-founding Microsoft with Paul Allen. He was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955, the son of William Henry Gates II and Mary Gates. He studied at the private Lakeside Elite School in Seattle, where he began to develop an interest in computer science. Microsoft Software Company: In 1979, Microsoft began to grow and Bill Gates decided to move the company to Seattle. Around 1980, he met with representatives of IBM, where he was able to sell the MS-DOS operating system. He didn't have one yet, so he bought it from a young programmer, and IBM needed this operating system to be able to compete with Apple. On April 4, 1975, while still a student at Harvard University, he founded the Microsoft Software Company with his friend Paul Allen. A year later, he retired from college and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico (the headquarters of ITS (Metering and Telemetry Systems)), agree...

  I am a fan of Elon Musk and his way of thinking. I've watched countless interviews, but one had a line that stood out enough for me to pay attention to. In a 2018 interview with youtube tech star Marquez Brownlee (during a Tesla factory tour), Elon mentioned this line. "The best part is not the part, and the best process is the impractical." Tour of the SpaceX: Fast forward to the past few weeks and I'm watching a long informal interview tour of the SpaceX facility on another major YouTube channel, Everyday Astronaut. Most of the content flew right over my head (the intricate detail of rocket technology), but it contained an absolute golden nugget. Elon detailed the five-step innovation strategy he and his staff use to innovate at both SpaceX and Tesla. This is exactly what Elon sees. All of the requirements are pretty ridiculous and the first step is realizing how ridiculous they are. He goes on to quote the following and add further guidance during the idea stag...