Bill Gates What does it take to be the richest man? It is obvious that you don’t need to be extremely attractive or even good looking at all. You only have to have a great idea, you have to be an obsessive workaholic, and you have to be willing to beat and crush all of your competitors. Also being a genius, and being in the right place at the right time may help too. …showed first 75 words of 637 total…

…showed last 75 words of 637 total…Gates and Allen like everything else, took this particular job seriously and were determined to produce a quality product, and they did just that. They developed what is called MS-DOS, or Microsoft Disk Operating System. IBM was very pleased and they quickly incorporated it into all their personal computers. From there Microsoft grew rapidly in popularity and in production. By 1986 Microsoft was a globally recognized company, and Mr. Bill Gates was a 31 year old Billionaire.