- Melinda French Gates turned down IBM on a hiring manager’s advice—and became a $15.2 billion mogul. She’s one of many billionaires, from Jensen Huang to Steve Jobs, who owe their success to unexpected wisdom.
If a manager at one of the world’s most powerful companies tells you to ditch them for a small startup, take the advice. You might wind up a billionaire like Melinda French Gates. At the start of her career interning at IBM for two summers, she had a job offer on the table. But a supervisor steered her to cut and run for the hills of Seattle.
