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🗓️ 1 December 2018
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New York Times best-selling author Alex Banayan shares how Bill Gates was able to land his first big deal.
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0:00.0 | We all know that Bill Gates is now one of the most successful people in the history of the planet. |
0:05.8 | However, how did Bill Gates land his first big deal? |
0:10.9 | Today, the New York Times best-selling author Alex Benion shares how Bill Gates was able to use |
0:16.8 | the third door to land his first massive mega deal. deal. Grab the duct tape and mentally prepare yourself for yet another mind expanding knowledge bomb. |
0:31.0 | From America's number one business coach, Clay Clark. |
0:37.0 | You interviewed Sugar Day |
0:42.0 | Leonard and you've also interviewed interviewed I mean you got a chance to really deep dive into the success stories of the biggest and most successful people on the planet. Lady Gaga, Bill Gates, I'd love for you to share with us, |
0:56.2 | share with the listeners out there, how Bill Gates used the third door to actually go about |
1:01.9 | selling his first piece of software. |
1:05.0 | You know, that's one of the, you know, funnier stories, in my opinion of how Bill Gates got his start. |
1:12.0 | So it really begins... got his start. |
1:12.9 | So it really begins his sophomore year of college. |
1:17.7 | He's in his dorm room and his best friend Paul Allen, you know, storms and swings open the door and throws a magazine on the desk and the magazine on the cover has this little blue box with lights and switches on it and it's a little thing |
1:37.2 | called the Altair 8800. |
1:40.3 | And on the cover of the magazine it says, |
1:42.8 | introducing the world's first micro computer set. |
1:48.2 | And Paul Allen yells at Bill and says, |
1:50.8 | you know, it's happening without us. And what Paul was implying. Bill and |
1:55.0 | Bill and Paul was implying was that you know this computer revolution is already |
1:58.0 | taking off and Bill and Paul are just sitting around watching it happen. |
2:02.0 | So you know Bill Gates reaches for the matter just sitting around watching it happen. |
2:03.2 | So you know Bill Gates reaches for the magazine, you know he's 19 years old, he reaches |
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