Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is probably the smartest entrepreneur ever.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is probably the smartest entrepreneur ever. He is also a man to be looked up to in every aspect because he’s given the world some great inventions and entrepreneurship goals. Apart from being a successful business, his work in the philanthropy department along with his wife is commendable too. His CEO blog, Gates Notes, is spectacular as it disseminates very vital information pertaining to the field for all budding entrepreneurs and will help you learn a variety of things other than just business.
Here are few quotes by Bill Gates which makes him a superstar:
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs ever. With the success of Microsoft, he holds his position tight on the list of richest people.
Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs ever. With the success of Microsoft, he holds his position tight on the list of richest people. However, like almost all other entrepreneurs, he didn’t have it easy and continues to be humble even after making it big.
Here are five entrepreneurial lessons every budding entrepreneur can learn from Bill Gates:
1. Innovation is the key to success
“The most important speed issue is often not technical but cultural. It’s convincing everyone that the company’s survival depends on moving as fast as possible.” – Bill Gates
With technology and the startup culture evolving at a break neck speed, one has to up their game to remain in the competition. Innovation is the basis for entrepreneurship and the idea is what makes or breaks your business. Even though he is very successful, Gates still believes in never stopping the process of innovation. From Microsoft, he switched to Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which he believes is his way of giving back to the society.
2. Time is valuable
Bill Gates has often valued time over everything else. Bill gates quotes “No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time” which clearly shows how much importance he gives to time on his list. Time once gone can never come back no matter how much money you make. The hours you waste today cannot be made up for with currency notes. Gates teaches us to give importance to and respect time. Like him, all budding entrepreneurs should learn to make the most of their time by investing it into importing priorities. Unimportant meetings can be sacrificed for more important things which is how an important person actually respects time.
Most people find comfort in going down a path is already taken and assures success. However, the richest man in the world begs to differ. Bill Gates once said “to win big, you sometimes have to take big risks”. He believes that if people have the courage to go down the unexplored road and venture into territories which are relatively untapped, one is bound to gain more success. His strong belief in this theory is what led him to believe in Microsoft and making it work.
4. Never stop trying
Most budding entrepreneurs tend to give up after the first sign of failure. This is the worst approach to entrepreneurship as one needs to try many time before actually succeeding and making it big in the entrepreneurial world. Bill Gates, one of the greatest entrepreneurs also faced trouble in the initial years before succeeding. People hardly know that before Microsoft, he set up Traf-O-data, started with his partner P. Allen, which aimed to process and analyze data from traffic. Unfortunately for him, Traf-O-data was a big-time failure which buried him in debts. He took this failure as a lesson and went on to start Microsoft and the world is aware of the rest. Budding entrepreneurs can learn to never give up on their dreams come what may from this man.
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” -Bill Gates.
Everyday, an entrepreneur has to face an array of clients some of whom are satisfied and the rest not very happy. Gates believes that the dissatisfied clients are the ones who can teach us various lessons about what is wrong with the venture and also suggest things that can be improved upon. An entrepreneur should enjoy positive feedback but at the same time shouldn’t ignore critique from an unhappy client.
We hope this article will help you on your entrepreneurial journey. Also, try and incorporate Bill Gates’ lessons wherever you can in life because it is always better to learn from superiors.
The technology giant Microsoft has recently launched a Cybersecurity Engagement centre in Gurgaon, Haryana which will help the company in identifying threats and manage them well on the cyber front.
The technology giant Microsoft has recently launched a Cybersecurity Engagement centre in Gurgaon, Haryana which will help the company in identifying threats and manage them well on the cyber front. India is the seventh country where the company has laid the foundation for a Cybersecurity centre globally and will function as a satellite to Microsoft’s Redmond Digital Crimes Unit (DCU).
“The CSEC’s mission is to help build a trusted and secure computing environment, a critical enabler for India’s digital transformation. It will works towards fostering deeper cybersecurity collaborations with public and private sector organisations for this “We believe security of critical information is imperative for our corporate customers, just as it is vital to ensure security and privacy of citizen data and transactions. Our first investment towards this was setting up our local datacenters in India last year, and now launch of the CSEC. While the India team itself will be a compact one, the center will be operated in affiliation with the Redmond DCU team and comprises of over 100 legal and technical experts worldwide.” -Bhaskar Pramanik, Microsoft India Chairman.
The other cybersecurity centres by Microsoft are located in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, China, Berlin and Washington DC.
This cybersecurity engagement centre is supposed to be a huge development for the country as in the future, it plans to team up with Government organisations and address the issue of cyber attacks which are so rampant across the country.
From Google to Microsoft, Cognizant to NetApp – Indians run some of the world’s biggest and best companies.
Indians have played a key role in the success of technology powerhouses globally. From Google to Microsoft, Cognizant to NetApp – Indians run some of the world’s biggest and best companies. Recently photocopying major Xerox named Infosys veteran and former iGate CEO Ashok Vemuri as CEO of its back-office outsourcing company. Vemuri’s elevation is another milestone for Indian-origin CEOs, of whom at least half a dozen are in Fortune 500 companies.
Here’s a look at 10 India-born CEOs of global technology giants.
Sundar Pichai, Google
India-born Sundar Pichai was named as Google CEO on August 10, 2015.
The 44-year-old head of Google was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and pursued education at IIT Kharagpur (B Tech), Stanford (MS) and Wharton (MBA); at Wharton, he was named a Siebel Scholar and Palmer Scholar.
He is responsible for the launch of the dominant Chrome web browser, and was previously the product head for Android, Chrome, Maps, and other popular Google products.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
After a 22-year stint with Microsoft, Nadella was appointed as the chief executive officer of the company in February 2014.
He previously held the position of executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group.
The Hyderabad-born 47-year-old has a BE from Manipal Institute of Technology, MS from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Rajeev Suri joined Nokia in 1995 and held various positions before being appointed as president and CEO in April 2014.
Suri’s ascedancy to Nokia CEO’s position came after Microsoft acquired Nokia’s mobile phone business. Previously, he was the head of the company’s India services division.
Like Satya Nadella, the Bhopal-born Suri also holds a B-Tech from Manipal Institute of Technology, but holds no post graduate degrees.
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe
Born in Hyderabad, Shantanu Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 as the senior vice president of worldwide product research and became the COO in 2005 and CEO in 2007.
He holds a Bachelor in Science from Osmania University, an MBA from University of California, Berkley, and an MS from Bowling Green State University.
Narayen held product development roles at Apple and Silicon Graphics before co-founding photo-sharing startup Pictra. A chance encounter between Adobe and Pictra led to Narayen joining Adobe, where rose swiftly through the product ranks.
He was named among the world’s best CEOs by Barron’s MAgazine in 2016.
Sanjay Jha, Global Foundries
Sanjay Jha took over as CEO of Global Foundries, a semiconductor foundry that produces chips for giants like AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and STMicroelectronics, in January 2014; before that he has served as the CEO of Motorola Mobility and COO of Qualcomm.
He joined Motorola as co-CEO in 2008, while serving simultaneously as CEO of Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business.
Prior to Motorola, Sanjay held multiple senior engineering and executive positions during his 14 years with Qualcomm, ultimately serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Qualcomm Inc. from 2006 to 2008.
Jha was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar and holds a BS from University of Liverpool and PhD from University of Strathclyde.
Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded flash memory storage company SanDisk in 1988 and has been its CEO since January 2011.
He pursued bachelors and masters degrees at University of California, Berkley, and also went to Stanford for executive programme. Mehrotra holds several patents to his name.
George Kurian, NetApp
George Kurian became the CEO and president of storage and data management company NetApp in June 2015, after serving as its executive vice president of product operations for nearly two years. Prior to joining NetApp, George was vice president and general manager of the Application Networking and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems.
His diverse background also includes the role of vice president at Akamai Technologies, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and leading Software Engineering and Product Management teams at Oracle Corporation.
Born in Kottayam district, Kerala, he pursued engineering at IIT-Madras, but left six months later to join Princeton University; he also holds an MBA degree from Stanford.
Francisco D’Souza, Cognizant
Among the youngest CEOs in the software services sector, D’Souza is Cognizant’s CEO and a member of the company’s board of directors.
D’Souza joined Cognizant as a co-founder in 1994 and went on to become its CEO in the year 2007. During his tenure as CEO, Cognizant’s employee base has grown from 55,000 to over 230,000.
The son of an Indian diplomat, D’Souza was born in Kenya. He holds a BBA from University of East Asia, Macau and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; D’Souza also serves on the board of General Electric as an independent director.
Dinesh Paliwal is the president and CEO of Harman International, a premium audio gear brand that owns the likes of JBL, Becker, dbx, among others.
Born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Paliwal holds a BE from IIT Roorkee, and MS and MBA from Miami University.
Prior to joining Harman, he spent 22 years with ABB Group, where he last held the dual role of President of ABB Group with responsibility for the company’s global P&L, and Chairman/CEO – ABB North America.
He serves on the board of Bristol-Myers Squibb, and previously served as the economic advisor to the governor of China’s Guangdong province for three years.
Ashok Vemuri, Xerox Business Services LLC
Xerox, the 110-year-old document technology company that over the years has come to symbolize everything associated with photocopying, named former iGate CEO Ashok Vemuri as the new CEO of its back-office outsourcing company.
Earlier this year, Xerox said that it would split into two separate companies — one would focus on document technology, which would include Xerox’s traditional printer and copier businesses, while the second company would focus on back-office outsourcing, payment processing and other technology-related services.
A former Infosys veteran, Vemuri became CEO of Xerox’s business process outsourcing company after the separation of the company’s two entities.
