00:00In 1975, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore named Bill Gates read an article about a new computer
00:06called the Altair 8800. He was obsessed with computers since he was 13. He saw something
00:12that nobody else saw. Every household in the world would one day own a personal computer.
00:18He called the company that made the Altair and lied to them. He told them he had software ready
00:23that would run on it. He had nothing. He had eight weeks to build it before they tested it.
00:28He worked 18 hours a day in his dorm room. He nailed the demo. The company hired him. Bill called
00:35his best friend Paul Allen and told him, drop everything, we're starting a company. Bill called
00:41his mom he was leaving Harvard. She cried. She begged him to finish his degree first. Bill promised her
00:47he'd come back. He never did. He started a company called Microsoft in 1975. It became the operating
00:54system on almost every personal computer on earth. By 1995, Bill Gates was the richest man
01:01in the world. He's now donated over $50 billion to charity. The company he dropped out of college
01:08to build employs over 200,000 people. Sometimes the diploma matters less than the dream.
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