Bill Gates Leadership Style:

In the year of 1975, Bill gates, after dropping out from Harvard, with his boyhood friend Paul Allen, decided to start a full-time computing company called Microsoft. His belief was that the personal computers produced by the company would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and every residence, and therfore started focusing more on developing personal computers. His foresight and vision regarding personal computing has since then been central to the success of Microsoft and the rest of the software industry. Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the world - he claims that his hard-work, dedication and self-confidence has strongly helped him earn the success he has today and attain the position in the profession he chose for himself. He also claims to be a simple man and has always been slightely conservative about money, though is he one of the richest men in the world. One of his quotes states that, "If you are intellegent and ambitious, like me, and know how to apply your intellengence, you can achieve anything." For a broader information on Bill's leadership styles, visit: Leadership styles of Bill Gates

Microsoft's Vision:

Microsoft's vision is "A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer he will continue to stomp out the competition until he dies. Every business and household must have a computer and must run Microsoft software", was the basic guiding vision of Bill Gates.

Gain/Loss from Microsoft/Apple Rivalry:

Gain: According to the film, Pirates of Silicon Valley, the gain from the two software industries was mostly for Bill - as Apple's fame at that period revealed his competitiveness to himself again. Seeing Steve Jobs profit so well from "stealing" programs from the IBM made him realize and come up with the idea of partnering up with him and benefit, by using their computing data to improvise and use it for Microsoft instead. Overall, it mostly benefited Gates - as Jobs trusted him blindly when he was planning to get him down... Another gain was for the general public, as their rivalry made them both work harder in their field, and improve their products faster - from which we gain the most and they gain as well, as they're earning money for their products. Loss: Though there wasn't a lot of loss for Gates, his overconfidence and trust in Gates costed him to lose his job.

Bill Gates' Effectiveness on the World:

Since Microsoft is the world's largest software company, if it weren't for Gates' clever mind and success in getting those information from Jobs' company, we might have not been in the position in cases of personal computers that we are now in. If Gates hadn't succeeded in his task, Microsoft might have gone bankrupt, and computers to us, ordinary people would still have been a mystery...

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