Bill Gates’ toxic past: he was compared to “a foreman” and did not want his employees to rest

Bill Gates He is one of the richest men in the world. Today he is known for being a philanthropist and gives motivational talks to young students, but he has a very toxic work past when he was a young businessman in charge of Microsoft.

“You’re not lazy if you give yourself a break,” he said in one of the talks to university students, according to a GenBeta report. But, his long before him did not think that and he did not believe in vacations, breaks or weekends.

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It was Gates himself who confessed that “in the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot and I kept track of who left early and who stayed late.”

Microsoft’s success was built alongside Paul Allen who confirmed the difficult situation, and that at Microsoft “there was a very stressful environment due to Bill’s demands.”

Later, in a podcast series with the BBC, the billionaire admitted that he was “a little more intense than most people at the time, but “no more intense than Steve Jobs,” the founder of Apple.

The growth of this company led him to occupy the position of “the richest man in the world”, just as Elon Musk is now. But at the cost of being considered, even by his colleague Paul Allen, as “a foreman who hung around the parking lot on weekends to see who had arrived” at the office.

Source: Elcomercio

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