Bill Gates Reveals His $400 Billion Mistake That Cost Microsoft Greatly

Android co-founder to Bill Gates: 'You're more responsible for Microsoft losing the $400 billion'

Rich Miner's comments come after Gates admitted to Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz that Microsoft's failure to take over the smartphone market was 'one of the greatest mistakes of all time'.

Bill Gates Reveals His $400 Billion Mistake That Cost Microsoft Greatly

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, recently disclosed what he considers the greatest mistake of his career—a misstep that cost the company a staggering $400 billion. Gates, who founded Microsoft alongside his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, admitted in an interview that the failure to establish Microsoft as a dominant player in the mobile operating system market was a critical oversight. According to a report by Gizmochina, Gates highligh…

Bill Gates named his biggest career mistake - The Times Hub

Because of it, Microsoft lost 400 billion dollars in profit. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, speaking at a Village Global event, called the failure of the mobile OS market his biggest career mistake. He believes it paved the way for Google's Android to become the dominant platform among non-Apple platforms. In the software world, especially in platform markets, the principle of «winner takes all» applies. The biggest mistake of my career was th…