What it's like to work with a billionaire, according to ex-colleagues of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Sara Blakely
The lives and working routines of billionaires fascinate those hungry to understand their success. Their eccentricities and rules for life are the subject of books, podcasts, and countless articles.
Their close colleagues know these captivating figures well. Here, people who've worked alongside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Sara Blakely talk about what it was like.Chris Williams will never forget the"grilling" he says the billionaire Microsoft cofounder Gates gave him when they first met in 1992.
After buying their company, Gates interrogated Williams and his colleagues about why their product was better than its Microsoft rival's. In eight years of meeting regularly one-on-one with Gates as a Microsoft executive, Williams learned how Gates' questioning was a way of exposing who"slung the bull." He'd keep pressing until the person under questioning would either admit they didn't know or start inventing things.
"It was hard to be in those rooms many times and not pick up some of that skill," Williams wrote for Insider, adding:"In time I could recognize the face of someone who, it seemed, would rather die than say, 'I don't know, but I'll find out and get back to you.'" Williams also recalled Gates' ability to absorb"miles of data and dozens of opinions on the correct path" at a meeting and immediately identify what mattered and what to do.
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