From DAILYFINANCE.COM:
Parents of less-than-perfect offspring, take heart: It turns out, perhaps not surprisingly, that Harvard University drop-out, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates was at times a difficult kid, at least according to his father.
In a conversation last week at the 92nd Street Y in New York between William H. Gates Sr., a retired, prominent Seattle lawyer, and his son, Bill Gates, the senior Gates said, “It would be less than candid of me” to not admit that “as families go, and as conflicts arise between parents and children from common causes, the whole business of exerting independence, fighting against discipline, that’s an experience we had, and it was one that was particularly the case with Bill and his mother for a period of a couple of years. It obviously worked itself out at a very early date.”
“An interesting piece of that,” Gates Sr. continued, “was the consultant that we went to and talked to about this. Mary [Mrs. Gates Sr.] and I would go in, and Trey [Bill Gates] would go in and talk to this fellow. This went on for a better part of a year, a year and a half. Toward the end, Mary and I were there for a meeting with him, and he said, ‘You have this war going on with your son — you really should understand that he’s gonna win.’ “
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