For some Bill Gates is visionary, for others the face of a corporate bully
In the middle of the 1990s Bill Gates - already well on his way to becoming the world's richest man - decided to turn his hand to writing.

Insights gleaned from building up software giant Microsoft helped propel his books, The Road Ahead and Business @ the Speed of Thought, into the bestseller lists.

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