On: How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates

[jrs99]

Bill Gates was a genius with an entrepreneurial mind. Do you think his parents taught him to program the machine that he had access to? He is a self-taught programmer and a high-school entrepreneur and as a kid he read encyclopedias front to back.

I know another child entrepreneur, self-taught programmer who read encyclopedias front to back as a kid... elon musk.

[hackerboos → jrs99]

>Do you think his parents taught him to program the machine that he had access to?

No. But we're talking about having access to that machine in the first place.

[jrs99 → hackerboos]

My point is that if you can teach yourself to program, and program THAT WELL, at that time, then you are going to teach yourself a lot of other things.