Paul allen is a music lover, and he is also full of special interest in astronomy. Whenever he is free, he is either immersed in music or staring blankly at the sky. Therefore, among his classmates, he is an unsociable person. ?
However, he is not without friends. There is a blond boy in the class who is two grades lower than him. He often comes to see him because his father is a librarian and the blond boy wants to borrow some latest computer books through him. ?
In the process of borrowing and returning books, Allen fell in love with the blond boy, so he often went in and out of the school computer room with him and played programming games with the blond boy. From "three consecutive chess games" to "landing on the moon", he also became a computer expert after the blond boy when he graduated. ?
197 1 In the spring of, Allen was admitted to Washington State University to study aerospace; The following year, the blond boy entered Harvard to study law. Although they are not in the same school, they often contact each other. The blond boy continued to borrow books from him, and he continued to discuss programming with him. ? 1974 during the winter vacation, Allen read an article in Popular Electronics, which introduced the world's first microcomputer. He was very excited, because in middle school, the blond boy often complained in front of him that the computer was too stupid and heavy! I wish I could put it at home. ?
Allen took the magazine to Harvard, met the blond boy and said that a computer that can be kept at home has been made.
The blond boy is worried about "whether to continue studying law or engage in computers". When he saw the so-called home computer in the popular electronic magazine, he said, "Don't go, let's do something serious together." ?
Allen stayed in Boston, the city where Harvard is located, and stayed there for eight weeks. During these eight weeks, he and the blond boy worked day and night, and wrote a program in Basic language, which can be loaded into a home computer named Altair8008 and can work like a large computer in an automobile factory. ?
When they walked into the microcomputer manufacturer with this program, they got an unexpected answer, giving them a bottom price of $3,000 and paying a royalty of $30 for each copy of the program in the future. ?
Allen and the blond boy were overjoyed and never went back to school. Three months later, a computer software development company named Microsoft was registered in Boston. The general manager is the blond boy-Bill Gates, and the deputy general manager is paul allen. ?
Now Microsoft has become a world giant, and General Manager Bill Gates has become the richest man in the world. Allen, under the great aura of the general manager, although somewhat gloomy, is also ranked in the top five of Forbes rich list, with personal assets of 2 1 100 million dollars. ?
Not long ago, someone wrote a book saying that paul allen was an "unexpected billionaire". Actually, this is a misunderstanding. There is a saying in the Jewish classic Talmud: "If you live with wolves, you can only learn to howl. If you come into contact with those excellent people, you will be well influenced. " ?
How can you be poor if you associate with a person who is destined to become a billionaire? The person you associate with is your future! That's the truth.