At the age of 19, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft.

That year, Elon Musk was only 4 years old and living with his parents in Pretoria, South Africa.

Nine years later, in 1984, Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to provide BASIC decipherers and operating systems for IBM PCs. Microsoft's sales exceeded US$100 million.

In the same year, 13-year-old Elon Musk entered the public eye for the first time.

A South African technology publication published the source code of a game he designed called "Bomb".

Although the design was not outstanding, the report earned the young Musk $500.

Eleven years later, 39-year-old Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes billionaires for the first time, with a personal wealth of US$12.9 billion.

Musk, 24, had just entered Stanford University to study for a master's degree. After only two days of enrollment, he decided to drop out and start a business.

This may be the only thing they have in common in their previously unconnected lives: they were born in a prestigious school but dropped out midway.

In addition, no one can connect two people who are 15 years and 8 months apart and cannot be compared with each other.

Until the two publicly criticized each other, American netizens hyped them up.

In 2020, Musk publicly announced on social media: "The rumors that Bill Gates and I are lovers are completely untrue!" Everyone discovered that these two leaders have been mocking each other for 4 or 5 years.

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No matter how deep the differences are, it does not affect their influence around the world.

However, Bill Gates, who has been brilliant for most of his life, and Musk, the "Silicon Valley Iron Man" with 45 million Twitter followers, have recently lost their halo. After peeling off the "coat" they were packaged in, these two super-rich people in the technology world,

They fell off the altar one after another.

In fact, the first time Bill Gates and Musk were in the same frame was in March 2015.

The venue is the annual Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, my country.

At that time, Microsoft founder Bill Gates had been the world's richest man for 10 consecutive times.

Musk has also become Tesla CEO and successfully delivered Model S p85D.

At that time, their views were very consistent whether it was about innovation or autonomous driving.

For the next five years, the two continued to mock each other openly and secretly.

Musk mocked Bill Gates for not understanding electric cars.

Gates responded with action: he bought a Porsche electric car Taycan.

Some people say that their difference is that Gates wants humans to live well on the earth, but Musk wants to take humans away from the earth.

Tracing their growth history, encyclopedias played an important role in their childhood.

Bill Gates doesn't like cartoons, fairy tales and other books. His favorite book is "World Encyclopedia".

Musk was not very gregarious since he was a child. His parents were busy at work, and he only had a black housekeeper to take care of him.

He read the Encyclopedia Britannica every day and memorized almost the entire book.

It seems that one of the qualities of successful people is their ability to focus.

It is difficult to say how much role the Encyclopedia Enlightenment Book will play in their future achievements.

But their ultimate personalities lead to the same goal.

Whether it's the crazy Musk or the quiet technology geek Gates, both of them have a strong adventurous nature.

Gates once said, "The primary factor in success is risk-taking. If risk-taking is eliminated, the chance of success will naturally be eliminated."

He likes fast cars and yachts, and often receives speeding tickets for this. He also once drove a car to the desert alone.

The person Bill Gates admires most is Rockefeller.

The most common saying of this oil tycoon is: Life is about taking risks. If you dare not approach the bottom line, you will lose.

One of Gates' most admired books is "Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Stories from Wall Street."

His adventurous spirit was fully utilized in business, leading Microsoft to conquer the world for more than 20 years.

Unlike Gates, Musk’s risk-taking genes come more from heredity.

His mother-in-law, Joshua, has been reported in the media as the only private pilot to fly a single-engine aircraft from Africa to Australia.

He also took his family to search for a lost city in the desert, and successfully drove away a lion during a jungle adventure.

Musk grew up listening to his grandfather’s adventures, and the adventure factor has long been ingrained in his heart.

He once said that great adventures are exciting.