Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would never have gotten away with what they did now due to the internet. I know many former Microsoft employees, Bill was famous for g

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would never have gotten away with what they did now due to the internet. I know many former Microsoft employees, Bill was famous for grilling people. “That was the stupidest idea in the history of Microsoft” was a common phrase. Watching Gates’ building his legacy has been interesting, I always wondered what happened to the “real Bill” I heard about from my network who worked for him directly. I think it is an interesting move for him to be honest about it due to this book. I suspect that Gates has been able to run interference on accounts of what he used to be like: Mean. Despite that, he has made a lot of his employees very rich. If you were anywhere near Gates during this period you would have counted yourself lucky to be getting reamed and counting your stock options over multiple stock splits. I would take the 1985 - 1998 Microsoft stock options please. I think the changing realities of the internet and laws protecting diverse workforce’s from harassment might be a genuine future risk to his legacy. I have been surprised at how little coverage there has been. If Gates and Jobs engaged in their former behavior in a modern work environment they would definitely get sued. Not “possibly” or “potentially” -> it would be a successful lawsuit, maybe a class action and they would lose. If they did what they did anywhere near women or minorities it would stand a good chance of getting labeled some form of illegal harassment or discrimination under current law. I am not saying they necessarily are racist or sexist, but any type of behavior like this towards women or minorities in general would be an extremely high risk activity.