Bill Gates remembers his early programming career

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  • @thecease6910
    @thecease6910 5 років тому +1783

    The media makes it seem like he just dropped out and became a billionaire. I like hearing about the whole background and story.

    • @anna_inu
      @anna_inu 5 років тому +24

      It's worse, he went from dumpster diving to world richest man.

    • @jameszy12
      @jameszy12 5 років тому +104

      I feel like people want to become rich and famous without doing all the work that comes with it

    • @teelovelock
      @teelovelock 5 років тому +100

      seems like he probably already had his 10,000 hours in before he hit mid 20s and so much exposure to the early Tech world since he was 16+... Yeah this is not your typical college dropout.

    • @LazarNevski
      @LazarNevski 5 років тому +22

      Well, yes, it’s called spreading communism.It’s what the media has done since its inception. Why do you think they hate Trump? Or Howard Schulz? Success is unforgivable in this world. You can be anything but successful.

    • @EmperorKonstantine01
      @EmperorKonstantine01 5 років тому +7

      Its what happens you steal software and ideas from John George Kemeny

  • @dimensional7915
    @dimensional7915 4 роки тому +83

    man, not only did he have to learn how to make a payroll system at 15 but he also had to learn how taxes worked at multiple levels to make the system work as needed. that's some crazy stuff

  • @dave4347
    @dave4347 2 роки тому +63

    Hearing about Bill Gates writing normal applications in his early career is inspiring. He wasn't JUST a genius who wrote machine code and built Windows on his first day as a software developer. He went through the same grimy steps as the rest of us.

    • @alainportant6412
      @alainportant6412 2 роки тому +4

      Especially when his mom (who happened to sit on the IBM board) managed to get him the interview that lead to the MS-DOS contract, she also presented him to Warren Buffet.
      I am poor and stupid so the Steve Jobs story is more relatable to me than Gate's.

    • @makita3680
      @makita3680 Рік тому +3

      That's what he wants you to think. In reality he bought some nerd's code (DOS) and used it to start his business.

    • @Bank-h6x
      @Bank-h6x Рік тому

      ​@@alainportant6412 !1aa

    • @TheVisualante11
      @TheVisualante11 Рік тому

      He did not write windows. He hired the guys from Xerox that wrote the drop down menus in which --Steve Jobs stole to make the Mac. At least Steve Jobs guys figured it out on their own Bill Gates just hired the OG from Xerox and the wrote it on top of DOS.

    • @S1eepers
      @S1eepers Рік тому

      @@alainportant6412 jobs was an ahole but karma got him

  • @manojuppala3941
    @manojuppala3941 4 роки тому +78

    This is one of the few videos where bill gates talks about programming rather than philanthropy. Enjoyed it.

    • @alexanderscott2456
      @alexanderscott2456 4 роки тому

      I agree with your priorities.

    • @alainportant6412
      @alainportant6412 2 роки тому

      @@alexanderscott2456 6:17 he bruteforced his way into Jeffrey Epstein's virgins

  • @tom.in.barcelona
    @tom.in.barcelona 5 років тому +101

    imagine being there in 1971 and seeing the first microchip ad. and KNOWING how significant it would be. mindblowing.

    • @ΜιχΛαζ
      @ΜιχΛαζ 4 роки тому

      Yeah working microprocessors at 15 with some years preciously careeer...even he when he stated that didn’t believed it and it’s obvious if you look him.Microprocessors from intel came in 1971 which means you couldn’t have at least in that system all the required information in order to use it and especially a kid under 15 as he said.

  • @ExtremelyTastyBread
    @ExtremelyTastyBread 5 років тому +190

    everytime he says "Paul Allen" I want to see his business card for some reason

    • @rzalegend
      @rzalegend 5 років тому +6

      Hopefully plastic covers and axe are ready

    • @birpstudios6698
      @birpstudios6698 5 років тому +26

      I bet you his card has a subtle off-white coloring, with a tasteful thickness. Oh my God, it probably even has a watermark…

    • @dhawalpandey2807
      @dhawalpandey2807 4 роки тому +1

      paul allen i killed paul allen with an axe to the face his body his dissolving in Hells kitchen

    • @ACEshredZ
      @ACEshredZ 4 роки тому

      haha yes

    • @ExtremelyTastyBread
      @ExtremelyTastyBread 4 роки тому +4

      @Dave Hardy reference is to the "business card" scene from the movie American Psycho

  • @neosapien247
    @neosapien247 4 роки тому +298

    Remember, dropping out of school/college only works if you have brains.

    • @AymanTravelTransport
      @AymanTravelTransport 4 роки тому +20

      And good connections that allow your brains to be recognised properly

    • @thomas_xsg
      @thomas_xsg 4 роки тому +27

      Brains,... and the will to succeed, no matter what. I always hate how many people see Bill Gates as this overnight millionaire who basically got lucky with Windows. It couldn't be farther from the truth. Yes, Microsoft made him a lot of money but he is super-smart and worked his ass off day and night to get where he is.

    • @13thbiosphere
      @13thbiosphere 4 роки тому +1

      @@thomas_xsg but don't forget that he did steal the dirty operating system.>> dos ua-cam.com/video/sDIK-C6dGks/v-deo.html

    • @thomas_xsg
      @thomas_xsg 4 роки тому

      @@13thbiosphere thanks for sharing, very interesting. It just goes to show that working hard and having a great idea is not enough. It takes business sense to seize the opportunity and get rich from it. Gates understood that.

    • @thomas_xsg
      @thomas_xsg 4 роки тому

      @ and your proof of this conspiracy theory is... what exactly?

  • @TheBigdan210
    @TheBigdan210 4 роки тому +329

    School: “We need to create something called software.”
    Bill Gates: “Hold my chocolate milk!”

    • @shubhamchandra9258
      @shubhamchandra9258 4 роки тому +1

      more like "Don't worry. Daddy's here."

    • @Ernesto1317
      @Ernesto1317 4 роки тому

      For the slaves who love worshipping their gods: He invented computers, he invented internet, he invented everything, even my life. Poor slaves.

    • @sirahmad
      @sirahmad 2 роки тому

      @@shubhamchandra9258 lol true

  • @MrXperx
    @MrXperx 5 років тому +579

    Bill should take a look at the youtube recommendation algorithm. It's generally is shit but once in a while, it throws up gems like this.

    • @EddieSaleh
      @EddieSaleh 5 років тому +23

      Recommender systems, do a quick search on that, and you’ll notice that the algorithm has nothing to do with pre-determined programming instructions, but rather fully influenced by your watch history, likes and comments. In other words, this machine learning algorithm is learning from your behavior on UA-cam. Do an experiment if you will: keep watching videos about one or a few number of topics, and you’ll start seeing shift in recommendations toward that topic or related ones. Simple as that

    • @dukenukem5768
      @dukenukem5768 5 років тому +1

      Won't happen! UA-cam is owned by Google, deadly rival of Microsoft.

    • @muntoonxt
      @muntoonxt 5 років тому

      @@dukenukem5768 I mean... Google has published a few publically available research papers on the topic. (Newer DL based approaches.)

    • @JackIsNotInTheBox
      @JackIsNotInTheBox 5 років тому

      Microsoft doesn't own UA-cam lmao

    • @photopicker
      @photopicker 5 років тому +1

      How does a algorithm searching for a gem in a sea of shit will find more gems than shit? The perpetual problem. Discernment across vast oceans of useless crap.

  • @user-fl9ti9ej8g
    @user-fl9ti9ej8g 4 роки тому +61

    His story needs to be made into a movie... just incredible.

    • @Landon_Hughes
      @Landon_Hughes 4 роки тому +2

      There's a Bill Gates Docuseries on Netflix

    • @Jaygo_Chuggington
      @Jaygo_Chuggington 2 роки тому

      He’s a POS, he’s a pedophile and a murderer

    • @w.heitzman6427
      @w.heitzman6427 2 роки тому

      Globalist attempts genocide using computers and vaxx is the sum of the plot of his story
      Not very appealing
      Think ive seen it before

    • @sirahmad
      @sirahmad 2 роки тому +1

      yeah they should make a movie on it i would excited to watch it

    • @Gokulandco.1234
      @Gokulandco.1234 2 роки тому

      Actually he didn't create windows, it was created by his friend. And it was purchased by him , because IBM was needed operating system on those days.thz is fact ,. finally the same purchased software became windows 😁

  • @mariagarcia9395
    @mariagarcia9395 4 роки тому +47

    Very interesting. Success born from a passion. As a kid he was working on projects most developers don’t even manage as adults. So at an early age he created a high level understanding of negotiation, project management, coding, what value automation adds to daily corporate life and how to implement it.
    A lot of times you see these parents going crazy having kids in a million activities and they miss what the kid was really interested in. Looks like he was encouraged and coach very early on to follow his passion.

    • @bbsara0146
      @bbsara0146 Рік тому +1

      yea imagine if bill gates mom forced him to do some stupid activity like to play the saxaphone or piano instead of negotiating all these contracts with the software.

  • @binzsta86
    @binzsta86 5 років тому +847

    Bill Gates probably don't remember this but I'm his lost son. It's never too late to catch up on lost times Daddy!!!

  • @aja749
    @aja749 4 роки тому +98

    I can't write 10 lines without StackOverflow and these guys wrote a payroll software in 80's.

    • @kdub1242
      @kdub1242 4 роки тому +10

      I'm so dumb that it often takes me multiple reads and tweaks just to be able to _understand_ many of those StackOverflow solutions. One can feel like a Salieri surrounded by Mozarts.

    • @aja749
      @aja749 4 роки тому +10

      @@kdub1242 Same here mate, funny thing is I am not even a teenager I am 26 with 4 years experience in development still dumb as fuck. I wish I could do something else but I suck even more in everything else.

    • @litovizija
      @litovizija 4 роки тому +1

      By the time goes you will always think that why I can't understand that solution and why it's not working, well the answer it's not that u dumb, it's because of how you didn't read the given solution in right direction. And always if you something misunderstandi, youtube is the one who can give a hope to be more successful than school.

    • @litovizija
      @litovizija 4 роки тому +8

      I spent 5 years of coding in c++ and a lot of time it's just mistake by mistake never getting right code to finish the solution, but today literally I can do every solution in c++, because of my mistakes. More mistakes you make more dumb you feel, but in reality more mistakes you done more information you get.
      Everything is easy when you do a lot of mistakes. (:

    • @artit91
      @artit91 4 роки тому +1

      I wrote a payroll software 4 years ago in 2 months for the UK HMRC thingy without the knowledge of English and in a programming language I knew nothing about. Also covered with tests and everything.
      It's not that magic as it seems but they were 15 back then. I remember writing software that helps writing poems ( so I can pick up girls) when I was 15 in Delphi.

  • @Benjabola
    @Benjabola 5 років тому +1174

    Bill Gates is the alpha nerd.

    • @GameCyborgCh
      @GameCyborgCh 5 років тому +68

      *cough cough* linus torvalds *cough cough*

    • @mookiecookie44
      @mookiecookie44 5 років тому +42

      @@GameCyborgCh no one cares about your linux ass shit get out of here

    • @arturoescobar5491
      @arturoescobar5491 5 років тому +3

      Melinda buena buena buena ..no sé si es, pero I think she thinks the same of Miguel Ángel

    • @thehomiebearfifa3528
      @thehomiebearfifa3528 5 років тому +22

      @@mookiecookie44 everyone cares apparently (all companies use them).

    • @threalismaradona9899
      @threalismaradona9899 5 років тому +1

      Asshat without bill there would be no linus

  • @JustTheWeirdCinema
    @JustTheWeirdCinema 5 років тому +50

    It's really amazing hearing his story. I was so interested in programming during age 13-17, and I volunteered to make about 3 programs each taking over 1 month to make (1 was a cross words games, 2 were function graphics drawing software) under the goal that people from the government would notice it and maybe give me a hand in pursuing a career in programming.
    But being Syrian in Saudia Arabia. They literally did not care. The promised they would come, and came to see it (sent 2 people who just said good job) then promised me to show this to people would would appreciate it and help. But after over a year of waiting. I finished high-school and left for collage.
    I ended up working online for a nice guy, and after awhile he left due to my inexperience with mistakes and bugs. that demoralized me, and I found not much people to explain some of the more complex stuff.
    They came to the school with an entire delegation of people, and made a big celebration with big gifts and stuff. Yet that was for the Football team, who didn't win anything, they just won in the school contest.
    No I hardly have any interest in programming anymore. But I learned a lot on my own. Hopefully would find sometime to go back to it.
    Edit: I just felt that I could share this here. Thank you for reading if you did.

    • @mohammedsaad0761
      @mohammedsaad0761 5 років тому

      Awesome MR GxxG it was very inspiring man👏👏👏👏👏

    • @stannisbarracuda5693
      @stannisbarracuda5693 5 років тому

      pursue it again man

    • @JustTheWeirdCinema
      @JustTheWeirdCinema 5 років тому +1

      @@stannisbarracuda5693 Now I have work + collage. I can't really find much time. But I still work on a fun 'Robots fight' project I started along time ago. only on vacations tho.

    • @abcdxx1059
      @abcdxx1059 5 років тому

      i really hope i dont end up like you i dont want to leave coding

    • @abcdxx1059
      @abcdxx1059 5 років тому

      im in the same situation i dont even have a pc i learned coding on qpython and later when i got a net connection i started using kaggle and collab from my phone i have made some applications such as machine translation, sentiment analysis , text generation and question answering systems and tried to replicate a few papers but apparently nobody gives a shit

  • @AngkarYearZero
    @AngkarYearZero 3 місяці тому +2

    His brain is crazy. He spent decades running and building Microsoft and can remember the details of work he did before Microsoft. Most people can't remember what they did the previous week.

  • @azzajohnson2123
    @azzajohnson2123 5 років тому +198

    I wish he named the phenomenal programmer that picked apart his work in a very constructive way.

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 5 років тому +57

      Whoever it was, he should have been in charge of Windows development and saved us all from 10,000 known bugs per release.

    • @Tyrfingr
      @Tyrfingr 5 років тому +9

      Linus Torvalds laughs in Finnish

    • @adianblabla
      @adianblabla 5 років тому

      @@Tyrfingr please tell me a bug-less distro, I have yet to find one.

    • @Tyrfingr
      @Tyrfingr 5 років тому +3

      @@adianblabla Impossible to say. Bugs you encounter with your hardware and software may not be encountered by someone else. There are too many variables to avoid bugs in any OS.

    • @USUG0
      @USUG0 5 років тому +4

      that guy has been sleeping with the fishes since 1970!

  • @subhajitchakraborty7388
    @subhajitchakraborty7388 5 років тому +52

    Remember he told at age 13-17 he started programming. I am 27 now, when I was 13 I had never seen one until I started engineering at age 19. That's sad about us that when we start exploring, we don't have resources, but definitely I will make sure my kids gets all the facilities which I didn't had during my childhood days.

    • @cristian3024
      @cristian3024 5 років тому +8

      Not necessarily the resources, like the other person said.. books were always available but in this life not everyone can be super smart, ambitious, skillful, etc. specially at an early age.. so I believe Destiny comes into play with our lives and at this point all we can do is provide our kids the support/advice that we never had.

    • @tabularasa0606
      @tabularasa0606 5 років тому

      I started programming when I was 14. I didn't even have access to a computer. I basically did my brothers homework.

    • @emmanuelebitu7007
      @emmanuelebitu7007 4 роки тому

      Same here. Quite unfortunate we weren't exposed to these at the very young age.

    • @LuaanTi
      @LuaanTi 4 роки тому +3

      He didn't have a computer at home either :) There's a big difference between waiting for an opportunity to come around and going stalking opportunities through dark alleys.

    • @howardOKC
      @howardOKC 4 роки тому

      @@LuaanTi exactly! Gates succeeded not because he HAD computers, but because he actively seek those opportunities like no tomorrow.

  • @beefjezos2713
    @beefjezos2713 5 років тому +72

    Imagine being Bill Gates' partner and being destined for glory but dying in a rock climbing accident while you're still in high school...

    • @soldez3129
      @soldez3129 5 років тому +2

      Evan Laufman sorry I can’t imagine that

    • @Kauffman578
      @Kauffman578 5 років тому +1

      He was killed

    • @Dawggo
      @Dawggo 4 роки тому +1

      @@Kauffman578 Bill Gates paid a crackhead to do it then never spoke of it again.. lol

    • @Theoss-sl1fk
      @Theoss-sl1fk 3 роки тому

      RIP

  • @PeterDoingStuff
    @PeterDoingStuff 5 років тому +82

    i really like that Bill Gates shares his memories with us, it's fun to hear about and there is at lot to learn. I got into IT by accident and i have allways loved the work and all the fun and surprises. Yes you have to put in hard work, but it is rewarding too....not in money allways but in fun memories.

    • @MasterBroNetwork
      @MasterBroNetwork 5 років тому +1

      A reason I'd get into any coding is the funny things you can run into during creating a project.
      Especially with web or game development, So many funny things can happen and you can have lots of fun working on projects when you least expect it.

  • @rajath1964
    @rajath1964 5 років тому +515

    He did all this between the age of 15-17..OMFG... Epicness

    • @cardcode8345
      @cardcode8345 5 років тому +43

      Rajath C S
      He could cus his parents were rich and brilliant.
      Don’t be a fan of man, all this abilities are results of his luck.
      White Rich American in 1960’s. He’s mother was a brilliant women and dad was rich from generations

    • @zoeherriot
      @zoeherriot 5 років тому +168

      @@cardcode8345 this is partially true - now - Gates learnt on an old computer that was time shared. He didn't have a computer at home, and he didn't have access to anything you recognise as a PC. So yeah, the reason being rich helped, was that he could go to a school with a computer - and he worked out a way to get access to the time shared computer system (I think he hacked it or found a bug).
      So yeah - being rich helped... But it kinda leaves out the whole thing that he still had to learn how to program on systems that are infinitely less intuitive to what we are used to now, with no internet. He had to put the time in and to intuit the answers.
      He still deserves credit - it's not like all the other rich kids at his school also became amazing programmers.they didn't.

    • @dethswurl117
      @dethswurl117 5 років тому +79

      @@cardcode8345 the definition of jealous lol

    • @saffron6661
      @saffron6661 5 років тому +58

      @@cardcode8345 nah. just cause you're born into a rich family doesn't been shit. he could easily have become a spoilt rich kid and yet he was blessed with a smart brain and utilized it's capabilities. you don't know what you're talking about. you seem bitter as hell man

    • @josh1234567892
      @josh1234567892 5 років тому +11

      Air Crash man, stop being an idiot and just appreciate this nigga for the computer you’re using rn.

  • @AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive
    @AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive 2 роки тому +1

    0:04 how to play Candy Crush Saga and how to force XBox and latest news on to people and so on. Yea, Microsoft has perfected things. 💪🙏
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    I use OpenSUSE, btw.
    Bye.

  • @yoyobu1666
    @yoyobu1666 4 роки тому +14

    This guy seems intelligent 🧠 he seems to have enough skills to start a business

  • @easilyCoded
    @easilyCoded 4 роки тому +148

    Who else is still at “Hello world” level ? 😂 ... don’t give up, one day we shall tell our story like this 😎

    • @IanMcCully
      @IanMcCully 4 роки тому +4

      do you want any help with hello world thanks Ian

    • @IanMcCully
      @IanMcCully 4 роки тому +3

      Do you want any help thanks

    • @MJTFreeTime
      @MJTFreeTime 4 роки тому +5

      “Hello World” in whirl?:
      110011100111000001111100000001000011111000011111100000000010000011001111100001
      100010000010011111000100000000000001001111100000111110001000000000000000001000
      111110010000001100001111100011000000000100111110011100111000111000001000111000
      001111100000111110010000011111000110011111100001111000001111000001110011111100
      001111000110011100000111000100011111000001111100100000110000000111000001110001
      111100011111000111000001000001000011000111110001000001000000011100000111001000
      111110001111000001111000011111100001111110000011110000000000000000011110000011
      100111000011110011111000111110001111100000100000000000000000000000111110001110
      000001110000011100011100111110001000100000000011100001111100110000000010011111
      000111100000111100111100010011100000111110000011111001100111100010001111000000
      000001000111110010000010011110011001110001000111110001100000100011111000011110
      011100111111000111100000111100011111000000011110000011100100001111000100011111
      001100011111000111100000111001110001100111100100000000000000011111000001111100
      010010000011100001111100100000100011100000111000110011110001001111110001100000
      111100011111000111100000111001000011110001001111100000111110000000011110000011
      110000000000000000111000001110000011000001100000111000111000001100111110000111
      111001001110000011111000001100011000001001111110000011100110011111000000000111
      000001110000111100001100

    • @MJTFreeTime
      @MJTFreeTime 4 роки тому +1

      Il Fantino Indeed... lol

    • @aumradia8467
      @aumradia8467 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah you're true
      But our day will come.

  • @codebeat4192
    @codebeat4192 5 років тому +63

    0:29 "How can you make it fast, how can you make it small".... Bill, go back, something went wrong with Windows.

    • @akilansundaram2181
      @akilansundaram2181 5 років тому

      Nice comment.

    • @panblacksolutions
      @panblacksolutions 4 роки тому +1

      Uninstalling and pausing the bloatware makes windows 10 fairly fast. The need to increase profits is where it went wrong, but still the best operating system out

    • @batsonelectronics
      @batsonelectronics 4 роки тому

      DR Dos was kicking MS's ass with Dos so it went downhill for MS when they made Windows 95 that combines the Windows GUI and the Dos under layer. ( started the problems for Windows in general ) It has been bloated ever since. I wish I had been born 5-7 years earlier, I was all in to computers in the early 80's, just a few years late to the game.

    • @batsonelectronics
      @batsonelectronics 4 роки тому

      @@panblacksolutions I prefer OS X now. I got started back in the DOS days and didn't switch to OS X till 2007, but I find OS X so much quicker and less stressful to deal with. Windows 7 was the last decent OS MS made as far as I am concerned. I still run 7 and Server in VM's for Security work but my main OS usage is OS X. I have nothing against Win users, just not for me anymore.

    • @grigorecosmin
      @grigorecosmin 4 роки тому

      @@batsonelectronics 95 is a non-NT based OS. Windows 10 is NT based.

  • @ankurs8883
    @ankurs8883 2 роки тому +1

    I have 18 years of IT experience .
    I heard with rapt attention.
    I wanted to see where is missed.
    Now i know it was Interest in tech, Persistence, Programming and outlook not for money but towards learning .

  • @chriss2295
    @chriss2295 5 років тому +7

    Don’t think that Gates was just an Okay programmer. He was head and shoulders above.

    • @doraemon61377
      @doraemon61377 4 місяці тому +1

      Yeah he solved the pancake problem

  • @nationwide9102
    @nationwide9102 5 років тому +13

    1:23 this is why "You need experience before you can get experience" is a joke. Here Bill was, 15-16, and was able to do what adults couldn't really manage to do themselves.

  • @davidmalik9821
    @davidmalik9821 4 роки тому +7

    This was when the second richest man in the world was hustling. I'm still a PC guy because of him although I use more Linux for everyday use. I cam right after mini computers, DOS, and text command software. Remember Word Perfect in the early days?

  • @rajiiiv123
    @rajiiiv123 5 років тому +46

    He still remembers everything precisely @6:23

    • @rty1955
      @rty1955 5 років тому +2

      He most likely making it up

  • @karlbooklover
    @karlbooklover 5 років тому +37

    Read the book Hard Drive, a fascinating biography which goes into a lot of detail from Bills early career

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c 5 років тому

      Karlbooklover
      I have read it, it’s a good book. The idea man by Paul Allen is better

  • @BOTzerker
    @BOTzerker 5 років тому +5

    Some of us have seen Accidental Empires and we know Bill Gates had no vision to how important DOS would be to Microsoft. He turned down IBM two times and put "Big Blue" in touch with the developer of CP/M to build an OS for their PC. When IBM came calling a third time, Microsoft didn't build an OS for IBM; they purchased QDOS renamed it 86-DOS and licensed it to IBM where it became PC DOS 1.0.

    • @BumHaven
      @BumHaven 4 роки тому

      Sure he bought DOS but I think it is silly to believe everything that happened after that point was accidental.

  • @oso0012
    @oso0012 5 років тому +26

    that's so fascinating even in 1964 schools had terrible funding and had to have students code THEIR PAYROLL AND SCHEDULING!!!

    • @notricky1680
      @notricky1680 5 років тому +1

      Funny, but the payroll thing was another company, not their school

    • @jonetyson
      @jonetyson 4 роки тому

      Well, they could have had a second-rate programmer from the employee's union, or they could have had Gates & Allen. Good move.

  • @LateNightViddys
    @LateNightViddys 5 років тому +19

    I want to know about the man Bill is speaking of at 11:04

    • @johnny-mnemonic13
      @johnny-mnemonic13 5 років тому +3

      I know right... It makes you realize that talent alone won't make u billions

    • @ingelegenial
      @ingelegenial 5 років тому

      Might be Steve Jobs (I know that's a long shot. Or basically impossible)

    • @johnny-mnemonic13
      @johnny-mnemonic13 5 років тому +1

      @@ingelegenial lol. steve jobs ain't that older than bill. Bill said that this guy was much older than him.

    • @filbert-the-lazy-squirrel
      @filbert-the-lazy-squirrel 5 років тому +5

      @@ingelegenial Steve Jobs wasn't a programmer, and they're the same age.

    • @emmanuellebianchin
      @emmanuellebianchin 4 роки тому

      Someone so phenomenal that he won’t say his name ? Might be not a person but a group .... the BAIN & company ... that got him where he is, If it were not for his family ties and connections ... this man would be less than ordinary ... check out his past and you will understand how manipulated we are when we are only told what THEY want us to know.....

  • @christopherhillsofficial
    @christopherhillsofficial 3 роки тому +2

    Mann if you think about it all these geniuses came out decades ago. Can’t image how cool it would be to live in that era

  • @_myron
    @_myron 5 років тому +9

    Lesson to learn from this is that having an experienced person critique your work will advance your ability way more than any other learning resource.

    • @Kylemathews1
      @Kylemathews1 5 років тому

      True, watched an artist talk about having other artists critique his paintings and then going back to work on the weak points of his technique

  • @jjbb7010
    @jjbb7010 5 років тому +39

    The 1st time I saw a computer my jaw dropped cause my 1st one was a commodore you plug into a cassette tape recorder :) I was super hooked.

  • @StephenDoty84
    @StephenDoty84 5 років тому +9

    Thanks, Bill. A valuable story to hear.

  • @BigBam458
    @BigBam458 2 роки тому +2

    He should keep his work in programing instead of investing in vaccines.

  • @RabbitConfirmed
    @RabbitConfirmed 5 років тому +266

    And my programming skills are basically "Hello World"

    • @streamx2
      @streamx2 5 років тому +43

      @Peter Lustig He is a programmer and still writes programs.

    • @bob69927
      @bob69927 5 років тому +13

      @Peter Lustig he.. is.. tho..

    • @marc2377
      @marc2377 5 років тому +25

      @Peter Lustig FYI Gates made a bet with Paul Allen back in the day on who could write the shortest bootloader for the MITS Altair hardware. They wrote in 8080 machine language. Gates won.

    • @BenRangel
      @BenRangel 5 років тому +4

      @@streamx2 Name something Bill Gates has written in the last decade? Or since the 90s.
      I fully agree he used to be a programmer. but I hadn't heard about anything he's written in ages.

    • @BenRangel
      @BenRangel 5 років тому +15

      @Peter Lustig your trolling has no power here

  • @katsuonakamoto9199
    @katsuonakamoto9199 10 місяців тому +1

    Great interview. Nothing is more interesting than programming.

  • @SuyashBhattarai
    @SuyashBhattarai 4 роки тому +17

    Bill is an inspiration to me. He along with Elon Musk are my role models.

  • @Borednerds
    @Borednerds 2 роки тому

    In my opinion, that guy 11:10 is what made Gates. Constructive criticism of young genius can be dangerous but if the kid is REALLY smart and "gets" it well, the sky is the limit. Clearly worked for Mr. Gates.

  • @bopon4090
    @bopon4090 4 роки тому +15

    I could listen to his whole life story. he is an inspiration to me and many other programmers.

    • @DJRonnieG
      @DJRonnieG 4 роки тому +1

      Paul Allen did the real leg work for Atair BASIC. Not only did he have to write the assembly code, but he had to write the emulation software for the PDP-10 minicomputer which was used as a developer environment.
      Sure, Gates got good at BASIC but that's not a particularly challenging language, try it.
      This is not to say that Gates isn't an intelligent man but I do request reconsidering and looking a bit more deeply before considering him to be a top programer on the whole. Top business man, sure. That cannot be denied.

  • @marklopez747
    @marklopez747 2 роки тому +2

    Forgot to mention his hand in the development of software viruses. Programme it and then develop an anti-virus software to tackle that same issue. Finally, apply that same model to the real world whilst using Africa and India as guinea pigs.

  • @josephbishara4791
    @josephbishara4791 5 років тому +8

    People who go far in life tend to be people who don't shy away from doing a lot of work.

    • @billbelzek6748
      @billbelzek6748 5 років тому +1

      How do you explain Commie Trump? He is President but spends half his time golfing.

    • @wittenberg5
      @wittenberg5 3 роки тому

      @@billbelzek6748 Trumps dad had the work ethic of a machine. SOMEBODY has to do the work....lol

  • @CardinalHijack
    @CardinalHijack 4 роки тому +2

    There are many problems with America, but what I love about it was the opportunity. There was a computer that Bill and his friends could use to do what they loved. But people were not going to just give them use of it. They needed to barter, negotiate and trade things for the use of it. If they were willing to put in the work, then they could achieve whatever they want.

  • @SloMoShort
    @SloMoShort 4 роки тому +5

    You ain’t injecting me with anything mister!

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 4 роки тому

    That "small obscure article" at around 5:00 had a prominent pic on the front cover of Pop Tronics, Popular Electronics, and was the lead article inside. Everybody and his brother had been waiting for months for it to happen.

  • @69erone-half50
    @69erone-half50 5 років тому +8

    Bill trained himself to be a businessman and negotiator, so these are his advantages than other programmers at his time. If anybody can learn computer programming but the one who knows business is destined to be successful, the rest will just be employees until they retire.

    • @goodwill7643
      @goodwill7643 5 років тому +1

      so, you're businessman which still needs to learn programming?

  • @Hud.Alexdavenston
    @Hud.Alexdavenston 2 роки тому +2

    Am so delightful that Bill exist even if am not suppose to say but I like him so much to reflect onto my happiness with a gigantic heart of red!!!!!

  • @lengjai11
    @lengjai11 5 років тому +39

    we're literally listening to the history that shape the last 30 years of mankind. weow.

    • @langsonchibili1329
      @langsonchibili1329 5 років тому

      LITERALLY 30 YEARS OF HUMAN-KIND, DAMMN

    • @TheVanillatech
      @TheVanillatech 5 років тому

      Indeed. But his greatest moment was the shotgun in the trenchcoat Windows 95 "Doom" promotion!

    • @TheUtuber999
      @TheUtuber999 4 роки тому

      45 years

  • @Juan-ud3if
    @Juan-ud3if 2 роки тому +2

    Simply truthful and honest. Respect.💛

    • @TheVisualante11
      @TheVisualante11 Рік тому

      @Juan Really? I wish Paul Allan was there while he told the story of him taking over and fixing the problem and doing most of the work. Kinda like Ringo taking credit for writing most of the Beatles songs.

  • @edmondcasenas2565
    @edmondcasenas2565 5 років тому +14

    Studying Computer Science in his time was REALLY HARD there was no internet and you have to go to the library and besides that, the Assembly language was in early-stage you have to translate it in human-readable I took Assembly before it was full of codes that are not human-readable. Image his life back then how tough learning programming was! awful indeed, trial and error

    • @Etileable
      @Etileable 5 років тому +3

      assembly is not hard it is actually fairly simple. you just need to memorizing the various instructions, addressing modes, have some knowledge about the CPU and its registers.it is tedious work but by no means "really hard". stop talking out off your ass

    • @IhateAlot718
      @IhateAlot718 11 місяців тому

      It can be said, there was less distractions

  • @techtipsuk
    @techtipsuk 2 роки тому +1

    Nice to hear him talking about something he actually has an authority to talk about as opposed to vaccines.

  • @StoneColdProfessor
    @StoneColdProfessor 5 років тому +8

    Bill Gates: Changes the world with code.
    Also Bill Gates: We were "pretty good" programmers.
    I love the modesty.

    • @fredjimbob2962
      @fredjimbob2962 5 років тому

      He wasn't a good programmer, this is all exaggeration. Bill gates is good at BS, selling himself and making money, nothing else. Microsoft got rich because of dirty tricks, stealing other people code and luck. The only thing Gates is good at is making money by conning and stealing. Dishonest, stupid pig is what he is. All good programmers who know the real Microsoft story know this, but you won't read it anywhere because the only thing that's worshiped in America is money.

    • @mwanikimwaniki6801
      @mwanikimwaniki6801 4 роки тому

      @@fredjimbob2962 okay. And?

  • @junkmail75034
    @junkmail75034 4 роки тому +1

    I am surprised these companies would just go to two high school kids instead of asking McKinsey. Nowadays companies would go find consultants to solve intractable problems.

  • @ikkeman7920
    @ikkeman7920 5 років тому +18

    It's good for him to have a friend who shares the same interest. Unlike me, none of my friends know shits about computer other than typing in word 😞

  • @Ayman-te7wf
    @Ayman-te7wf 5 років тому

    It’s jaw dropping that’s this camera quality existed in 2010, no idea why we don’t see this quality often after a decade, I’m just flabbergasted.

  • @zach7147
    @zach7147 4 роки тому +3

    Wow, he’s so much more brilliant and well off than I could’ve ever imagined at the same age.

    • @ORNAMENTS_CLO
      @ORNAMENTS_CLO 2 роки тому +1

      Of cause he's a Genius. A Genius brain 🧠 works faster than a normal human brain; they learn to read in the earliest age, they wiser in many ways, etc. their iq is higher, too.

  • @plugpulled
    @plugpulled 4 роки тому +1

    My ranks for biggest nerds and geeks in programming
    1. John Carmack
    2. Dave Cutler
    3. Linus Torvalds
    4. Michael Abrash
    5. Bill Gates
    6. Tim Sweeney
    7. Ken Silverman

  • @sebastiantu6212
    @sebastiantu6212 5 років тому +83

    "got the source code of the operating system out of the garbage can" what a magical man

    • @SwapnilSingh4u
      @SwapnilSingh4u 5 років тому +1

      I dont believe

    • @johncole9964
      @johncole9964 5 років тому +1

      He got the DEC operating system out of a garbage can, That explains why MS DOS is a direct copy of the DEC operating system Tops 10.

    • @davevaebutuoy
      @davevaebutuoy 5 років тому +7

      Back in the day, all of the source code was available on microfiche. Most people didn't have fiche readers and they probably just threw it out, so I actually believe it is true that Bill got it from the trash. I read a lot of the VAX/VMS microfiche and learned a ton from it. I recall finding a problem in their YPDRIVER which caused VT220 terminals to crash in DMA mode. A BBS (Branch Bit Set) should have been a BBC (Branch Bit Clear), or vice versa. I patched the EXE and rebooted the operating system: problem solved. I reported it to DEC and they said it was really rare to get patches like this from end-users. Nice to know I was in good company with Bill and Paul. I guess I should have kept programming. By the way Windows NT (WNT) = VMS+1 (add one letter to V, M, and S to get W N T). Go look up Dave Cutler.

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 4 роки тому

      @@davevaebutuoy Mindblowing

  • @spearPYN
    @spearPYN 5 років тому +1

    Programming is not for everybody... it wasnt for everybody when programming was easy with BASIC on 8-bit machines, and now with very complex code with millions of lines of code is definitely much more harder....

  • @sebastiantu6212
    @sebastiantu6212 5 років тому +36

    "set a precedent for future activities", oh if they knew

  • @michaelryanspinelli5526
    @michaelryanspinelli5526 Рік тому +1

    It is very nice to hear & see. Bill Gates speak about his younger years. Knowing he knew. How smart Mr Gates and his friends were at such a young age. Understanding himself and friends were coding better than any one else. 🙏👍❤️🤍💙💜
    GREAT JOB!!!! 😊

  • @saif0316
    @saif0316 5 років тому

    Most surprising to me was that programing was way harder to write these program back then. It was in Assembly. I’m baffled that people were able to do these things at all.

  • @sbutler7069
    @sbutler7069 5 років тому +3

    Back in high school when my teachers used to make me find the value of “x” I never understood why or what the purpose was but when I took a college class the teacher took the time to tell me “that’s the beauty of this it can mean anything” he then proceeded to give examples and next class I had was web design and it lead me on to have an interest in programming.

  • @phosgene2
    @phosgene2 5 років тому +1

    allen and gates seem a bit like jobs and wozniak, in that he describes paul allen as supplying a lot of the vision, whereas gates' strength was in the execution and details of the programming......

  • @spiff_burner7887
    @spiff_burner7887 5 років тому +5

    this guy is lucky he existed at the right period and with the right knowledge !

    • @Zezenvo
      @Zezenvo 4 роки тому

      thug bolt no such thing man don’t give out excuses out here wtf is “the right period & with the right knowledge? “

  • @ComputerGuy63
    @ComputerGuy63 4 роки тому +1

    I think his first commercial program was called something like TRAF-O-MATIC for monitoring traffic at intersections. He never invented the MS DOS operating system. He bought it from some schnook for $50,000 and slapped the Microsoft label on it.

  • @jasoncarter3499
    @jasoncarter3499 5 років тому +14

    In high school I didn't even have a computer.

  • @bluasterisk
    @bluasterisk 4 роки тому +1

    This is great, showing the human side of himself who also came from humble beginnings. It makes me feel better that even he admits that he had superiors and wasn't just some unmatched god programmer.

  • @aarond23
    @aarond23 5 років тому +15

    Instructions to get this into your recommendations...watch a couple shark tank videos, then Kevin O'Leary videos, then Mark Cuban videos, then wham you are into the billionaire recommendations...

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 5 років тому

      I used to watch videos about poor people, but I've come up in the world, and now I only watch videos about billionaires.

  • @charlesderek7107
    @charlesderek7107 5 років тому

    He lived in a time where the market was completely empty and not dominated. Back then it was much more easy to make a value and service stand out with any useful software. It's not impossible today, but takes a damn lot more effort.

    • @charlesderek7107
      @charlesderek7107 2 роки тому

      @JuanRamonSilva I mean think of it, back then you used to need to trust the word of the papers or local library. By the time you receive the Information from the public library, the business already took off.
      Now at the click of a button everyone can see the documents publicly of the USPTO. I can promise you there out of every million people there are a few who just make a living off researching imerging tech, especially in Software at big Corps to find the gaps in their competitors (your) legal protections of Software developed. They find a Crack in your legal protection and that would inhibit your growth as a company.
      This is where it's described in marketing terms as "first to market wins".
      Hypothetically if you were to try make an identical Bill Gates born today.. Let's say he built a custom operating system..
      Is he the same intellect of the Bill Gates from the 80s? Probably not considering how much more he'd need to know to operate a thriving product and service to the market.
      With Linux existing, and Mac, and Windows.. Bill Gates wouldn't even make it to a 5M dollar company maxing out all angel investors. Why? Because the market would already be saturated with ample supply and competition when comparing.
      Don't get me wrong the iconic success stores we all know have common habits with each other. I'm just saying the level of skill and knowledge one must have today is much more demanding to have any noteworthy success.
      It's just misleading when it's represented as these individuals being of more intellect than others. This may be true to some degree generally speaking, but there's other outside factors of them jumping at opportunities perfect for their specific erra.
      Almost like catching the perfect wave when surfing. You can't control the ocean, but to catch the perfect wave you have to be prepared for it... and take the risk when it presents itself.

  • @CaptainNimo
    @CaptainNimo 4 роки тому +13

    Back in those days programming was way more difficult than now.

    • @rake1087
      @rake1087 4 роки тому

      Ummm yea no lol it was much easier than it is now. Sure we have libraries that help us with our code but algorithms have become so much more complex. In 1995 a CRUD program was top of the line stuff now CRUD programs are things I see in Computer Science 101

  • @gaylecheung3087
    @gaylecheung3087 4 роки тому +2

    I wish it was longer

  • @ad3l
    @ad3l 5 років тому +52

    Today's programming
    60% git hub
    20% why does my code not work?!
    20℅ why does my code work?!

    • @kelvinxg6754
      @kelvinxg6754 5 років тому

      @@ohio yes he's one of people who invented OS so his coding kinda . . more complicated

    • @BryonLape
      @BryonLape 5 років тому +1

      @@kelvinxg6754 He bought an OS, tweaked it, then sold it to IBM.

    • @kaisbenrhouma
      @kaisbenrhouma 5 років тому

      It's so true

  • @TeleTubby9
    @TeleTubby9 5 років тому +1

    Bill Gates is actually a very interesting guy to listen to. His background is very interesting.

  • @happyicare5053
    @happyicare5053 5 років тому +3

    It's amazing how things lead you in the right path, I mean the company helping you are the other one.Anz Paul Allen is very good too

  • @stanmo4331
    @stanmo4331 4 роки тому +2

    I've met and worked with Bill in the past when he was at Microsoft. Nowadays I have no idea what he's talking about. should have stayed clear of politics.

    • @binancefutures
      @binancefutures 4 роки тому

      Hello friend, If you work with bill you know;
      Investor of Bill gates - globalists- want to kill billions people?
      +905318674177

    • @stanmo4331
      @stanmo4331 4 роки тому

      @@MrJimShorts have at it, Bill. Hope Melinda is well and Steve is enjoying his retirement.

  • @utilityy
    @utilityy 4 роки тому +10

    This guy is really smart, he should start a company or something idk

  • @onufrybonekip3717
    @onufrybonekip3717 2 роки тому +1

    ".. and we got control over who is in our classes" - This man sounds authoritarian even when he goes back to his age of 15! You have to listen to his words carefully. He is a narcissist that always enjoyed power over the others.

  • @ButterySkater
    @ButterySkater 5 років тому +11

    All the information he knew were from books.

  • @alidurrani4645
    @alidurrani4645 5 років тому +2

    GATES talking about how phenomenal he was in programming at 16 and here is me, can't even write a program to solve a fibonacci series at the age of 26 :p

    • @AngkarYearZero
      @AngkarYearZero 3 місяці тому

      Never compare yourself to people like Bill Gates. Their brains are on a different level than most people.

  • @InvalidShortcut
    @InvalidShortcut 4 роки тому +3

    Can you do interview about his doctor career please.

    • @DomDoesCoasters
      @DomDoesCoasters 4 роки тому +1

      You don't have to be a doctor to want better for humanity

  • @benjaminvesenjak
    @benjaminvesenjak 4 роки тому

    Note guys those werent the times whre you could just copy errything off of stack overflow

  • @AnGhaeilge
    @AnGhaeilge 5 років тому +44

    I wonder if Bill still codes as a hobby in his spare time.

    • @johncaiwa
      @johncaiwa 5 років тому +8

      No

    • @ivanbravomunoz1305
      @ivanbravomunoz1305 5 років тому +2

      Doubt it

    • @jshepard152
      @jshepard152 5 років тому +32

      Bill tries to eliminate polio worldwide as a hobby in his spare time.

    • @billbelzek6748
      @billbelzek6748 5 років тому +2

      He probably dabbles in Javascript --- but he'd rather just hire his own army of programmers to do his bidding

    • @HiddenXTube
      @HiddenXTube 5 років тому +2

      Why do you think VB6 is still running on Windows 10?

  • @masoodahmed4718
    @masoodahmed4718 4 роки тому +2

    0:29 fast and small, thats what she said, when breaking up

  • @triky5384
    @triky5384 4 роки тому +3

    You can see in his face that he's so proud of what he did and how mad he made some people when he was younger 😄

    • @TheVisualante11
      @TheVisualante11 Рік тому

      @tiny5384 Ya good call. Telling the story how he saved the Day beating out the older guys Paul Allan and he did most of the work. I like how he takes credit for getting the contract too. Im sure his Lawyer dad had nothing to do with setting up the contract.

  • @dhruv.chaudhari
    @dhruv.chaudhari 4 роки тому +1

    1:00 - 2:08 Valuable insight. He took up a problem he didn’t know how to solve initially, and developed and enhanced his skills through the process of solving it, while also getting some fun benefits.

  • @akj7
    @akj7 5 років тому +8

    All this without the internet, that we have today. Nowadays, to every challenge programmers face, they go to Stackoverflow.

    • @mikeyknight292
      @mikeyknight292 5 років тому

      Jules A to be fair, the programming languages have evolved A L O T since then. Many new complicated features that make things easier and faster have been added

  • @quantum_psi
    @quantum_psi 5 років тому +1

    I personally can't stand programming, but not because it's hard. What he achieved is amazing though

  • @monsterclass
    @monsterclass 5 років тому +13

    Remember Kent evans😭😢

  • @yankobig8612
    @yankobig8612 5 років тому +1

    4 years ago I never had a computer which I couldn’t afford one, so I bought programming books which cost around 25 dollars, and a note book... to right down my codes.

    • @skahler
      @skahler 5 років тому +1

      @SnehRaj Sinh Jadeja he put it in2 a fax machine

    • @I_Lemaire
      @I_Lemaire 5 років тому +1

      What book did you get?

    • @rtrgrl78
      @rtrgrl78 5 років тому +1

      You should have got a dictionary too, to write down your code...

    • @skahler
      @skahler 5 років тому +1

      This reminds me of the time I was marooned on a small island in the Pacific just off shore of Da Nang. I couldn't see any ships for at least 100 kilometers, and was out of food just 7 days after killing my shipmates and eating their carcasses. There were just a couple of stones, some sticks, a broken ceramic plate from the ship, and a large granite block. Using what I remembered from Army basic, I managed to write the algorithm that perfectly calculated the exact moment I needed to shoot my last flare into the night sky to be rescued.
      Unfortunately, there was nothing to run it on. Moments later I was killed by an... absurdly large whale-squid-shark creature.

  • @rippspeck
    @rippspeck 5 років тому +3

    I bet nobody has ever said this before about Bill Gates, but I think his tan looks great.

  • @jack.english
    @jack.english 4 роки тому +2

    This man inspired me a lot in programming

    • @OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld
      @OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld 2 роки тому

      Jack I’ve been programming for about a year. Just won a state championship for network design. Would love to know what your working on and what tips you’d have for a intermediate programmer looking to up my game

    • @jack.english
      @jack.english 2 роки тому

      @@OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld dude, let's talk more, mail me ur discord or something.

  • @djdjukic
    @djdjukic 5 років тому +3

    When he mentioned he was 15-16 during this, I was pretty astounded. But then I remembered, I too was pretty freaking good at programming when I was 16. In school, they had me and my good friend who was also skilled do programming tests separately from the others so that we wouldn't assist them. I had already made programs that I sold, one of them to a hospital.
    But 8 years later, even as I went to college (now graduating) and kept improving my skills, the grand total of money I made programming is still under $500. I can't get a programming job here in Serbia; like other well-paying jobs, it's a good old boys' gig and I don't have any good connections. I would prefer to work by myself anyway, I kind of like being the starving programmer working on my own projects and open source stuff. But a man's gotta eat...

  • @jackilynpyzocha662
    @jackilynpyzocha662 2 роки тому

    Was it BASIC programming, for the school scheduling software?

  • @Jordan_99
    @Jordan_99 2 роки тому +9

    Y’all seriously believe this guy is legit? His father was an extremely wealthy eugenics enthusiast lmao

    • @ooo8188
      @ooo8188 2 роки тому

      And the father of one of the world’s richest men to date.

    • @Jordan_99
      @Jordan_99 2 роки тому

      @@ooo8188 who’s that?

    • @ooo8188
      @ooo8188 2 роки тому

      @@Jordan_99 who do you think? Have a guess

  • @shivimalhotra4980
    @shivimalhotra4980 4 роки тому +2

    Hello sir,
    As technology is growing really fast the engineers these days are getting frustated with the list of skills they need to learn. So I would like to know how did you manage this flow. It would be great if you can guide me for my career. Thanks!
    I am working as a data engineer from past 2.5 yrs. So any information related to this field would be helpful.