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#290 Bill Gates

Founders

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How Bill Gates Decided Where to Put His Energy

Gates was one of the top math students at Harvard, but he was not the best. Gates eventually gave up any thoughts of becoming a mathematician if he couldn't be the best in his field. He would focus on something and really stick with it. And so he's looking at all these options, trying to figure out where am I gonna direct this monomoniacal focus? It made the odds much longer that I could do some world class thing.

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