Image by bsktcase via FlickrWatched the Fiona Bruce led Money Programme on Gill Gates three times and want to watch it again before it expires on from my BBC iPlayer. It is great to be reminded of all the opportunities we all let pass by and Bill grabbed with both hands. In the early 80s, I remember seeing e-mail and hypertext for the same time – all we needed was a little bit of software to build a business but who thought that a browser or a URL would ever have any value?
Fiona Bruce makes the comment that on meeting Bill Gates, you get no sign of great wealth, great power or a strong personality but in the end you feel how his personality pervades Microsoft with his relentless determination to win. The successful entrepreneurs in Cambridge are similar, well most of them. The only UK entrepreneur to feature on the programme is Sir Alan Sugar– what does that say about the geek world of the UK?
So much to find interesting but how did Bill Gates pick up on an internal memo that college kids in America where incorporating the web into their daily lives from e-mails to ordering pizzas. The Internet was not just for the geek students. He wrote the famous memo The Internet Tidal Wave and tens of thousands of Microsoft employees changed step. Is that leadership?
Now The Cloud looms all around us with everything on line.
