Billionaire who made his first $1 million at Microsoft: 'Bill Gates was an extremely intense person'

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A billionaire who made his first $1 million working at Microsoft says 'Bill Gates was an extremely intense person.' (via CNBCMakeIt)

When I interviewed him back in 2015, Jain told me he made his first $1 million working for"Don't be afraid to be different." That's one of the top lessons Jain learned working with Gates.

The room grew silent, Jain recalled. "All the top guys were in that meeting. And Bill Gates was extremely intense person. He quietly looked at me for 10 seconds, and then said, 'Exactly!'" To teach him a lesson, Jain's manager put him on probation. "That will show you who you work for," he said. Back then, he explained, "all these big companies in the marketplace were asking their customers, 'What do you want?' And the customers were just saying, 'I want a better, faster and cheaper of what you built' — not something different."

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