{"id":1651,"date":"2008-06-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/bbc-news-business-the-secret-of-bill-gates\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T20:55:00","slug":"bbc-news-business-the-secret-of-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/bbc-news-business-the-secret-of-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC NEWS | Business | The secret of Bill Gates&#8217; success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7464074.stm'>BBC NEWS | Business | The secret of Bill Gates&#8217; success<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><b>(1) people, people, people<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of our competitors were very poorly run,&rdquo; he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Klunder says it was Mr Gates&rsquo; ability to understand the business as well as the technical side that gave Microsoft the edge.<br \/><b><br \/>(2) importance of product iteration<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most of our competitors were one-product wonders&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><b>(3) making your venture relevant<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She says of Microsoft that &quot;because they were the operating system, everyone else in the industry had to deal with them&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Microsoft&rsquo;s clout was, by this argument, unavoidable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Business | The secret of Bill Gates&#8217; success (1) people, people, people &ldquo;Most of our competitors were very poorly run,&rdquo; he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme. &ldquo;They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together.&rdquo; Klunder says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}