Billionaires Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey leveraged the skills they learned as teenagers into influential — and lucrative — careers. Here’s how.
Dalio leveraged that early success into Bridgewater Associates, the hedge fund he launched in 1975. Over roughly four decades, he grew it into the world's largest hedge fund before stepping down as CEO in 2017.When Gates was in the eighth grade, he learned how to write software programs.
"Self-exploration [at that age] is great because you develop a sense of self-confidence and an identity of, 'Hey, I know this pretty well. I know this better than the teachers ... Maybe I'm pretty good at this stuff," Gates said."If your program is wrong ... then you fix it and try it again. It's a feedback loop."
Together, Gates and Allen launched Microsoft in 1975. Gates was the company's CEO until 2000. As of Friday afternoon, company has a market cap of $1.85 trillion.When Dorsey was growing up, his father — an engineer — sometimes brought circuit boards home from work. That led young Dorsey to become"pretty interested in taking things apart," he told Harvard Business School's"
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