Obviously, he couldn't have been richer than Bill Gates because he isn't. From this story it seems like he had many of the same opportunities as Gates, but didn

Obviously, he couldn't have been richer than Bill Gates because he isn't. From this story it seems like he had many of the same opportunities as Gates, but didn't know how to leverage them into something more. If he had Gates's intuition and insight into the early software industry he might have made the same moves. But then again, if he had Micheal Jordan's skill in basketball he could have won more championships than others as well.