Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-21 Pages: 160 Language: English Publisher: Agate B2 Bill Gates. the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. has been a revered. and occasionally controversial. worldwide business icon for more than three decades.Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary. and painted by some as a tyrannical. less-than-scrupulous empire builder. Gates has had an unignorable impact on the growth of digital technology in daily life over the past 30 years. Even his sharpest critics have to acknowledge the obvious: Gates helped spearhead one of the greatest revolutions in modern history by seizing on the importance of software to the rise of the personal computer. along the way turning an arcane. specialized technology into a commonplace tool for the office and home.Gates has long been ranked as one of the world's wealthiest men - which gave him a name recognition far ...Read More