You see yourself working for somebody else?

1、以下是1984年Today Show中对Bill Gates的访谈内容

Host：You see yourself working for somebody else?

Bill Gates : I never have.

Host：Can you see it?

Bill Gates :I am used to having a comany where the ideas that I have or something that I can easily purse .So I think it would be a tough transition.

Host：If you had stayed at Harvard a few more years,would this a computer revolution who passed you by?

Bill Gates :Perhaps.Things move very quickly in the industry and it was really the urgency to get out there and be the first one to put a basic on the microcomputer that caused me to drop out.

Host：You are called a genius and I will well no I do not think that embarrassed you at all. They call you a genius. Part of you genius is that you are a computer whiz and the other is that you did have the business acumen to turn it into a woring company. Are you a business genius too?

Bill Gates :Well,I would not say genius.I enjoy working with people ,talking about what we are gona get done,getting real excited, making sure that the structure is there,that the ideas get get measured property and I am really leading the company.That is exciting!

Host：At age of 28,in a field of work where burnout is commonly,are you gonna burn out before you're 30?

Bill Gates :No!

Host：How do you know?

Bill Gates :Well,the work we're doing is it's not like, you know,we're doing the same thing all day long.We go into our offices and think up new programs,we get together in meetings,we go out and see end users,we talk to customers.There's so much variety and there's always new things going on.And I don't think they'll ever come a time with that that would be boring.

以下是简单介绍：

Here is a look inside the mind of 28-year-old Bill Gates.

Gates taught himself computer programming at age 13.

He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to launch Microsoft with Paul Allen .

At age 31,Gates become the youngest billionaire in the world.

Today ,his net worth is $98 billion.

He is the world's second richest person after Jeff Bezos.

 

2、看后反思：

What is your dream?

Do not give up. Your dream is the greatest thing in the world.