Great Thinkers is about inspirational figures who have shaped our world through their actions and ideas. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is one of these people.
In the video below, he shares his life and business ideas with the graduating class of Harvard, the college he attended but from where he quickly dropped out to begin his extraordinary journey to be one of the wealthiest people in the world. In the speech, he quips: “If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today!”
Bill Gates is known for many aggressive business moves in his early years and later with an uncompromising management style at Microsoft. His personal drive and ambition exhausted many and forced many to write about the intense atmosphere at Microsoft.
In this Harvard Commencement Speech, we find a more laid back Bill Gates who shares the story of his life, his success, and his charitable foundation. Sit back and cherish the ideas, and the surprising humor, of the richest man in America and often the world.