Comments on: Who Will Fill Bill Gates’ Shoes?

By: Ileostomy

Ileostomy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:36:00 +0000

As a human being, he inspires humanity to move forward not just in technology but in humanity itself as a community to embrace good. His next role in his philanthropic foundation will be his biggest challenge yet to create another spot in the history books.

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By: tradewe

tradewe — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:05:01 +0000

No One !!!

By: Flüge New York

Flüge New York — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:39:27 +0000

In my eyes it´s clear that nobody can fill Bills´ shoes. He is just a unique genius and improved the world so much. I think during his era he developed also people and met some other unique heads, who are all good. I think he´d planned and created everything before he knew he can declare the he´ll retire. but seriously, I don´t believe that he won´t have the last word for making important decissions.

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By: vozome

vozome — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:53:02 +0000

whoever is this century’s tech visionary is probably someone we haven’t heard of yet. Gates changed the world overnight and in one try. MS got a user base of over 90% on core products like operating system and internet browsers, effectively putting their product in the heart of the digital experience of hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

google is big, but never got a market share remotely as big as MS. And google is very western-centric.

That being said, thanks to this article I read the early coverage of twitter by Arington. http://www.tech...tr-interesting/

“I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.”

“But the fact that this is coming from Odeo makes me wonder – what is this company doing to make their core offering compelling? How do their shareholders feel about side projects like Twttr when their primary product line is, besides the excellent design, a total snoozer?”

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:21:31 +0000

Guys I just revisted this post and I got to say. We are all the puppets and the poster of this story was the puppet master

Nothing but link bait and retarded comparisons to get us to jump

By: Firefox Helper

Firefox Helper — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:14:24 +0000

It’s just like saying who will be the net Micheal Jordan or who will fill Jordan’s shoes in the NBA? there were many who tried and some say Kobe is the nearest they’ve seen in years, so in the Tech World Bill Gates cannot be replace even if somebody comes and try to earn billions and billions, nothing can come close to Bill

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By: Hong Xiaowan

Hong Xiaowan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:37:49 +0000

Jack Ma (Alibaba)

Jack Ma, the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Alibaba Group. He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, which is a China-based business marketplace site that serves international businesses. Alibaba Group then founded TaoBao.com, which is an online auction website that is pretty much similar to eBay and instead of paying through PayPal, TaoBao’s currency is AliPay. Yahoo Inc. then acquires a staggering 40% stakes worth over $1 billion dollars.

By: Ammadz

Ammadz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:08:56 +0000

Microsoft suck! although i happen to use little few services of it..
I think it’s going to be Ballmer.. Incase if he turn it down, i’m around!

By: Don MacAskill

Don MacAskill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:01:01 +0000

Disclaimer: I run SmugMug.

Stewart and Caterina deserve all the accolades, press, and adoration they’ve received. Flickr is an amazing service, it’s incredibly popular, and it has an extremely passionate and loyal following. I’m a fan of the service, and even more, a fan of the duo personally.

However… “the most successful photo-sharing site on the Web”? On none of the metrics one should probably define “most successful”, whether it’s financial (~$30M exit? Likely a loss-leader at Yahoo?) or adoption (Facebook, Kodak, WebShots and Photobucket, among others, have billions more photos than Flickr – and Facebook did it in less time and serves more photos) or anything else I can think of.

That’s not to say they don’t deserve to be on this particular list – they deserve to be at least as much as many of the others, if not more. But that’s some pretty extreme hyperbole.

On the real subject at hand, I think only Larry, Sergey, and Jeff belong on this list to begin with, and even they have a massive amount of catching up to do before they’re even in the same league as Bill Gates in almost any metric, perhaps the biggest of which is time.

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Wer wird der neue Bill Gates? | ethority blog — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:26:51 +0000

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By: Gates se despide con lágrimas de Microsoft « Pclinuxblog’s Weblog

Gates se despide con lágrimas de Microsoft « Pclinuxblog’s Weblog — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:07 +0000

[...] TechCrunch se plantea la pregunta: ¿Quién podrá reemplazar a Bill Gates?, uno de los artículos en los que incluso plantea una serie de candidatos para liderar el mundo tecnológico, el que es parte de una cobertura especial que Reuters le dio al último día de Gates. [...]

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By: Wim Permana

Wim Permana — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:37:42 +0000

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By: European

European — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:03:29 +0000

Talking about Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Digg and FriendFeed founders to fill the shoes of Big Bill is so laughable it hurts. How about we make the comparison when any of these sites even turn $1 in profit compared to, oh say, $40bn+ for the house that Bill built? Your only credible and worthy comparisons here are Brin/Page, Bezos and possibly Benioff. Levchin is out there somewhere in the middle, but definitely not on the level of Gates.

There are only a handful of ‘true’ innovators out there on the web/tech: Gates, Jobs, Yang, Bezos and Brin/Page. None of the others on your list are even close to touching this group, and Gates & Jobs are so far ahead of the others it actually isn’t funny.

By: Sundar

Sundar — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:56:45 +0000

Slide? Really? Compared to Microsoft?

Do you even know anything about MS?

Looks like you don’t care about what you are writing anyway, so why don’t you add Techcrunch and Micheal Arrington to that list?

By: European

European — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:49:24 +0000

By: Achal Gupta

Achal Gupta — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:02:26 +0000

Erik,

Do you even know with whom are you comparing BILL GATES. Bill Gates is a BIGGGG name world over.

One may be forgiven for comapring Bill with Google and Amazon founders but definitely not with the ones of Slide/Twitter/Digg/Salesforce…etc. They dont even sound like companies, rather just another weebsite

By: Gabe

Gabe — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:17:39 +0000

How naive to assume that the future of computing lies on the West Coast of the USA. I suggest you take some time off and get out of the bubble.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:17:49 +0000

haha your smoking something Eric

What a ridicolous article that is once again American focused.

The only people who have half a chance are the Google Founders – oh and you forget to mention that fact that Eric Schmidt is defining the Google strategy

Your comparing Kevin Rose to Bill Gates ? Are you crazy ? He’s produced a bloody website that revolves around voting up articles and a video company that sits on a couch talking about useless crap. How in any fking way is this a comparison to bill gates?

This article is a joke. As all the other posters have commented – none of the people you have included are even close in comparison to Bill Gates.

By: Why No One Will Replace Bill & Steve - GigaOM

Why No One Will Replace Bill & Steve - GigaOM — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:31 +0000

[...] even come close to replacing them. Erick Schoenfeld, a former colleague of mine at Business 2.0 and now at TechCrunch, came up with a list of names of candidates he thinks can replace [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:26:11 +0000

The correct answer is no one and to include the following people is just absurd

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Slide’s Max Levchin
Digg’s Kevin Rose
Twitter’s Evan Williams
Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake
FriendFeed’s Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor