#174 Bill Gates (Overdrive)

A few years earlier, there might have been great concern among Microsoft senior managers about the condition of Bill Gates when he showed up the next morning. After a restless night before the launch of Microsoft Excel in New York City in May nineteen eighty five, Gates had shown up for the big event. Without sleep. Without a shave.

And without a shower. He looked as bad as he smelled. There was no need to worry this time. Gates had been twenty nine years old that day in New York City. Now he was a couple months shy of his fortieth birthday.

The computer geek, once ridiculed for his personal appearance, had cleaned up. Literally. The personal changes in Gates had been as dramatic as the increase in his wealth. Which was now approaching A staggering twenty billn dollars.

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