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Apple, Google and Amazon each spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop their wildly successful products - a fraction of what Meta has blown.
Next on this special edition of "gps," from college dropout to the world's richest man. bill gates grew microsoft to the behemoth it's become and learned some important leadership lessons. i'll ask him about his famously demanding style when we come back. plan
From 3 employees to tens of thousands. today it has roughly 140,000 employees around the world. how did a kid with a passion for computers grow an incredibly valuable empire, become a leader of thousands, and then go on to run a globe-spanning foundation? and what are the differences between running a business designed to make money and heading an organization designed to give it away? the gates foundation has given away roughly $45 billion and counting. i sat down with gates at his private office near seattle. when you started at microsoft, you were so young. this was something that was just ...
Pushed people very hard. do you think that was the best way to motivate people? >> well, i think it's important to separate out i never -- i didn't -- other than a doj deposition i gave, no one ever said that when i went out and talked to the press or customers that i was rude or abrupt or commanding or anything like that. inside microsoft, we had to some degree a self-selected set of people who were mostly males, i'll admit, and, yes, we were pretty tough on each other. and i think sometimes that went too far. it was very intense. you know, we counted on each other to work very long hours. i ...