{"id":920104,"date":"2025-04-07T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=920104"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:50:11","slug":"on-microsofts-50th-birthday-founder-bill-gates-shares-the-washington-mistake-he-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/07\/on-microsofts-50th-birthday-founder-bill-gates-shares-the-washington-mistake-he-made\/","title":{"rendered":"On Microsoft&#8217;s 50th Birthday, founder Bill Gates shares the &#8216;Washington mistake&#8217; he made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and co-founder Bill Gates sat down with current CEO Satya Nadella. Among all the conversations, he opened up about one critical misstep during the company&#8217;s early days when Gates himself was the CEO, and that was underestimating the importance of government relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I might tell my younger self, watch out for the government,&#8221; Gates said during a recent podcast featuring all three CEOs who have led Microsoft throughout its half-century history. &#8220;I was pretty naive about not engaging in Washington, DC, as soon as I should have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and co-founder Bill Gates sat down with current CEO Satya Nadella. Among all the conversations, he opened up about one critical misstep during the company&#8217;s early days when Gates himself was the CEO, and that was underestimating the importance of government relations. &#8220;You know, I might tell my younger self, watch out for the government,&#8221; Gates said during a recent podcast featuring all three CEOs who have led Microsoft throughout its half-century history. &#8220;I was pretty naive about not engaging in Washington, DC, as soon as I should have.&#8221;<\/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-920104","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\/920104","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=920104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}