{"id":912661,"date":"2025-03-08T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=912661"},"modified":"2025-03-08T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:40:03","slug":"melinda-gates-reveals-the-career-advice-that-made-her-quit-ibm-to-join-microsoft-in-its-startup-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/08\/melinda-gates-reveals-the-career-advice-that-made-her-quit-ibm-to-join-microsoft-in-its-startup-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Gates reveals the \u2018career advice\u2019 that made her quit IBM to join Microsoft in its startup days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; ex-wife Melinda French Gates revealed an important piece of advice she received early in her career. During a recent interview, she said that this advice \u2014which was to forgo a stable job at IBM for a small startup that later became Microsoft \u2014 helped in her journey to becoming a billionaire. Gates mentioned that she got this advice from an IBM supervisor who made this suggestion despite the company\u2019s interest. This made Gates leave a senior position at IBM to join the then-nascent Microsoft, where she spent nine years and played an important role in the company\u2019s growth. She rose to the position of general manager of information products at Microsoft, which is now a $3.1 trillion tech giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; ex-wife Melinda French Gates revealed an important piece of advice she received early in her career. During a recent interview, she said that this advice \u2014which was to forgo a stable job at IBM for a small startup that later became Microsoft \u2014 helped in her journey to becoming a billionaire. Gates mentioned that she got this advice from an IBM supervisor who made this suggestion despite the company\u2019s interest. This made Gates leave a senior position at IBM to join the then-nascent Microsoft, where she spent nine years and played an important role in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}