As published in The C'Krit Magazine.net (http://www.theckritmagazine.net)
Ask anyone who knows Bill Gates of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook averagely for a quick comment and they will confirm about how they are both into software development and being able to build the next big things. Obviously there are similarities between these two people some of which can stir up a though or two on how such similarities are possible.
After a complete review of this article you should realize why Mark Zuckerberg is considered a rebirth of Bill Gates.
First a brief history of the two;
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg A.K.A Mark Zuckerberg was born to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward, a dentist, an upper middle class family in White Plains, New York on May 14, 1984. Mark being the only male born in the family has three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle. They were all brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Mark was raised Jewish, including having his bar mitzvah (an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and 12 for girls and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility, with the belief that at such an age they become more responsible for their actions. A bar mitzvah is an important social event to the Jews") when he turned 13, although he has since described himself as an atheist (someone who denies the existence of God). [Get a complete history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg]
William Henry "Bill" Gates III A.K.A Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and Scotch-Irish descent on October 28, 1955. His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Bill, also being the only male in his family has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had dropped his own "III" suffix. Early on in his life, Gates' parents had a law career in mind for him. When Gates was young, his family regularly attended a Congregational church. [Get a complete history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates]
Ok, History class is over, now a comparison of the two;
First common thing between Gates and Mark Zuckerberg is, both are very good software programmers. Gates built DOS &Windows and Zuckerberg is building one.
Second most interesting common similarities between them is, both of them have stolen ideas for software applications from others. Though the two may deny so much of these facts, it is evident that all of those lawsuits slapped on them were not claims from “disgruntled Employees”, and in the end paid huge sums of money to end their lawsuits.
Third common thing is Gates and Zuckerberg, both dropped out from Harvard University to establish their own businesses and the returned studying ver hard to catch up with their classmates.
Fourth interesting similarities between them is, both of them get ideas and drive by the opposite sex. As proven in “The Social Network” a movie released on October 1 2010, Zuckerberg created the initial Facebook application to get the “attention” of a woman though he denied this accusation during an October 21 2010 interview with mathoda.com. Gates on the other hand developed himself a MAC application to hook up with a woman and at high school created a program to schedule students in classes. He then modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.
Fifth most interesting similarities between them are both of them had scored an almost perfect score on the SAT.
Sixth most visible similarities between Zuckerberg and Gates are that they are considered as opportunists, thieves, devious and egoists, etc. and are constantly accused to have used some unethical tactics against their counterparts. Most software developers testify strongly to some of these and there is less anyone can comment as they are all from the same world.
Seventh similarity, Zuckerberg and Gates both founded their individual companies at age 20, 2004 and 1975 respectively and are both billionaires.
Eighth similarity, this seems to be a common fact yet has the need to be mentioned; both are not “really handsome” as defined by the masses and are Nerds. They are both intelligent enough and finished school with honors and both wrote their first Computer Programs while in High School.
Ninth similarity is that Zuckerberg and Gates have been facing copyright issues and legal disputes
Tenth similarity, the applications or software they built somehow has changed the IT world and given people an easy way to interact with Gates setting the basis of an operating system for Zuckerberg to build a Social Network.
Eleventh similarity, These individuals are of the type “love ‘em or hate ‘em”. And both were very lucky at their business. A certain number of circumstances played to their favor.
Twelfth similarity, they both come from upper-middle class families.
Thirteenth interesting link between the two, Microsoft (Gates) invested $240 million in Facebook, making Zuckerberg and Gates business partners.
Reading the History of these two people may give you some chills because they seem to have done a lot of things together at different times of their lives yet a relational link builds up between them. A logical conclusion that most people may draw from this is that; Gates initialized the platform that paved the way for Zuckerberg to build a simple application that Communicates to the world through any barrier.
Both Gates and Zuckerberg have developed a platform of soft service that the entire world is if not already attached then getting attached strongly to, careless of the origins and friendly status of people. Now all anyone needs is a computer and facebook to communicate with the entire world.
A realization and lead into one of Gates aims; Moving the world into a virtual system where an operating system is run from a server seated lengths away from its users. The question then is who is Zuckerberg going to rebirth to complete another stage into “the movement of the world onto a single network”?
As published in The C'Krit Magazine.net (http://www.theckritmagazine.net)