Complete the following interview with the suitable sentences from the box. Then, perform the complete interview with your friend.a. Did the other people share your intention

b. we have developed very well recently
C. You've got to have great equipment for those
d. During the time we were in Albuquerque
small teams
e. I had customers who went bankrupt and couldn't
f. I would program night and day and tell people
g.When did you establish your company
h. it was hard to recruit people while growing
i. What were a few of the early dissappointments j.What would be the two or three iterns that would characterize




Host : Bill, let's talk a little about the people that formed your company.
Gates : Paul and I were the founders (1)
which was 1975 to 1978, we ended up with
about sixteen people. Marc McDonald was actually our first employee. Other than Andrea, who
wrote the manuals, and Marla, who helped keep the books. I was the Sales Department, Contract
Department. Everybody else here were programers. We all wrote an immense amount of code.
These were exciting years. The number of new machines coming out was pretty dramatic. Our
offices were here in fancy Albuquerque, up on the eighth floor of this building here. Albuquerque was
great. There weren't many distractions there, but (2)
Host : What was the culture of the company like?
Gates : Well, (3)
"Hey, we promised this would be done in a few months we've got to
get them done." We were so aggressive at just getting jobs done. Like committing to write
a ROM BASIC that would fit into 12K of ROM. It was fun because, I at that time, got to look over all
the code that people did, and talk to people about where we would go with things. It was just a very
small group, and yet between the new machines being made in Japan and the U.S., every week
a new invention was happening.
Host : (4)
? Were they there as many hours as required?
Gates : Well, certainly most of the people did. Besides, we were all quite young. I may have set the most
extreme example, but the work was really fun. We always had deadlines that we ended up committing
to that ended up being very challenging.
Host : (5)
your company way?
Gates : The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people. There is no way of getting
around that in terms of 1.Q., you've got to be very elitist in picking the people who deserve to write
software. Ninety-five percent of the people shouldn't write complex software and using small teams
helps a lot. (6)
_. So, pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent
equipment; vast compilation, debugging, lots of machines, profiling technology, so that they are very
productive in terms of what they are doing. Make it very clear what they can do to change the spec.
Make them feel like they are very much in control of it. Have lots of people read the code so that you
don't end up with one person who is kind of hiding the fact that they can't solve a problem. Design
speed from the beginning.
Host: We talked a lot about your earlier successes. (7)
? Then, what did you learn
from them?
Gates : There were a lot of disappointments in the early days, but
because we got in early we had to make more mistakes than
other people. (8)
customers who we
spent a lot of time with who never built microcomputer-based
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