Bill Gates draws laughs at Trump's expense. Says president confused HIV with HPV
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Alice if you read 'Outliers' you'll see that Gates was always going to be a highly successful tech mogul. Aside from the supercomputer at his private school (put there at the behest of his mother), he also got an internship at a tech company thanks to his familial connections and got a lot of his early ideas from the people he worked with there- used when he struck out on his own.
Were they from different backgrounds? To an extent. Trump's family were one social class away, the gap only being between 'comfortably rich' and 'filthy rich'.
On the other hand, Microsoft is a tech giant and has played a major role in revolutionizing the world by way of their operating systems and software products. This wouldn't have happened to nearly the degree of success if it hadn't been for Bill's technical skills, business smarts, and hard work.
Trump is a lazy oaf who's been given a free ride through strings of failures that would've decimated a less-wealthy person. He would have made more money if he'd just bought a private beach mansion in the Caribbean and invested the rest of his inherited fortune into the stock market.
True about Bill's addition to microsoft, he is a talented guy (not to be unexpected when he's practiccally been groomed from birth to be a CEO).
Trump is indeed an oaf, but not a lazy one. If he were truly lazy he would've just put his money into stocks. If anything he's an idiot who believes that to be successful you have to be a businessman. In addition, the point I'd make would be that anyone would have made more money if they had the nonce to simply invest and leave the cash- that's kinda the point of investing.
Although he would have almost made the same amount having left it in a mutual fund.
It's been debunked to say that he would have made the same, but it's damn close and based off of information we don't know
Granted, but if we are to figure out any sort of objective measure of the "success" of a CEO type of person, the high-powered wealthy executive making big decisions, we need something to compare it against. I would say that investing in the stock market and leaving your money to the whims of the market is as close to a control group baseline as we're likely to find in this topic. The placebo, if you will.
Trump's decisions have, cumulatively, left him below the control group's results. Gates is pretty clearly above the curve. It would be incorrect to say that Bill was a scrappy kid who started from literally nothing, but he had what I'd consider approximately the same magnitude of privilege-derived help as Trump did leading into adulthood. My point is that he's left Trump in the dust with the idiot tripping over his own heels over the course of their respective careers.
Also, he's lazy because he's an Ideas Guy who delegates to subordinates, more than anything. But I don't expect a proper worth ethic out of a narcissist; his appetite for work is directly proportional to how likely it is to glorify or enrichen him.
I highly doubt Microsoft would be in the position it is now if Trump were its CEO.
Trumpsoft would be just another failure with his name on it.
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