- PHoebe Gates, Daughter Microsoft Founder Bill GatesThe pressure on the pressure on being a “unknown child” and the uncertainty she encountered, starting with a college in Stanford, especially under the attention of the glory and wealth of her family.
Microsoft Bill Gates founder made sure his three children grew up Knowing how preferred their lives were.
But if your father is a person who founded one of the largest technology companies in the world and is worth More than $ 100 billionIt also comes with a pressure level.
The youngest child Gates, Fiba, is well aware of his status “no child” (sort for non-unity) status identified as a person whose parents are well known in a particular field and, as a result, can have favorable contacts for their children’s careers.
But Having wealthy parents Does not insulate students from a cultural shock that goes to college, especially if you have more eyes than usual.
On her new podcast “Burnout” Along with the business partner Sofia Kiani, the young Gates spoke about his first weeks, learning at Stanford.
“I had so much uncertainty and such a desire to prove myself,” Gates said. “I came in, I liked it, I have so many privileges, I was not a child, I had so much uncertainty about it. It seems so hard if you are a freshman in college because you have no experience, you have nothing.”
In addition to the need to navigate its academic stages in the focus, growth as a gate is unusual problems for her career.
For example, while its co -chair has acquired the name of its own transaction nickname to do business, Gates has already been purchased by a random person.
“One of my teachers told me a super early when I was in high school. The biggest advice for me was to buy your domain name … Use it for your portfolio, use it for your professional email,” Kiani explained.
“Someone else owns (mine),” Gates added. She said the site that works with her legal name contained “random photos of me and this … 35-year-old dude … I wasn’t kidding. We had to make it take it out because I was a minor and he collapsed photos of our wedding together and more.
“Every time you looked at this site, it will come.”
Earlier Bill Gates spoke of the burden of close control over his children as a result of his huge success, saying that his children’s internet was rough waking up for it.
Father three years old previously told Gates CNBC do this This misinformation was a key problem with it and what it was naive to suggest that “if we provided information available People would like the correct information“
He added: “Hearing how my daughter tells how she was being persecuted on the Internet, and how her friends survived it is quite a bit, it led to this way that I never thought of before.”
Gates did not allow the college as a father Bill
Bill Gates is glorious One of the great technology colleges that threw out of Harvard.
Along with Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Apple, their actions put a precedent for entrepreneurs who want to get out of education to focus on their big idea.
But the younger Gates said her father prevented her from doing the same.
Phib, who is 22 years old, is believed to be out of the degree of human biology in Stanford to work on it Startup PhiaThe business she started with Kin.
Details about Phia are small, but its web -sight describes it as “a new way to buy online”.
“My parents were actually very careful when I was the way I want … remotely finish the degree and make a startup, they were very similar to,” you need to complete the degree, you will not be able to just give up and make the company, “what my dad literally did it.
“That’s why I can go to Stanford, or pay for tuition – it’s out of that.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-08 14:52:00
Eleanor Pringle
