His death gave me reason to read up on early Microsoft history and his life after leaving Microsoft in 1982 (he stayed on as a board member but his day to day duties ended).
It has left me with a mixed bag of thoughts. He co-founded the company with Gates in 1975, but quit working there when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1982. He held onto most of his share, but agreed to a 60-40 split with Gates in recognition that Gates was doing all of the work. He made a series of investments in real estate, professional sports, AI, and space. He donated a ton of money, much of it for research into the human brain but also a huge amount for the Ebola response a few years ago.
He had all of the money one could ever want, all of the toys including pro sport franchises, a lot of political power in the state of Washington, but no family and he left Microsoft before Microsoft did what made it so important to the world.
He also had cancer at a young age, re-evaluated his priorities, and led a pretty amazing life. He beat cancer again in 2009 for 9 years but it got him today.
I guess my thoughts were that he led the life every one dreams of when it comes to things like being in at the beginning of something huge, owning anything he wanted, and doing good for his fellow man. He also got to cancer at a young age and was affected by it most of his life until his early death. He had no family. I don't think I would trade places with him (obviously not now, I mean trade my life for his).
It has left me with a mixed bag of thoughts. He co-founded the company with Gates in 1975, but quit working there when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1982. He held onto most of his share, but agreed to a 60-40 split with Gates in recognition that Gates was doing all of the work. He made a series of investments in real estate, professional sports, AI, and space. He donated a ton of money, much of it for research into the human brain but also a huge amount for the Ebola response a few years ago.
He had all of the money one could ever want, all of the toys including pro sport franchises, a lot of political power in the state of Washington, but no family and he left Microsoft before Microsoft did what made it so important to the world.
He also had cancer at a young age, re-evaluated his priorities, and led a pretty amazing life. He beat cancer again in 2009 for 9 years but it got him today.
I guess my thoughts were that he led the life every one dreams of when it comes to things like being in at the beginning of something huge, owning anything he wanted, and doing good for his fellow man. He also got to cancer at a young age and was affected by it most of his life until his early death. He had no family. I don't think I would trade places with him (obviously not now, I mean trade my life for his).
