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CHAPTER 2 THE SUCCESS FACTORS OF MILLIONAIRE ENTREPRENEURS

and CEO of the company. With our combined strengths, the
business becomes a guaranteed success.

Microsoft has become so successful for this very same reason.
Bill Gates’s strengths lie in his ability to innovate technological
breakthroughs in software (innovation) and create a vision
(creativity) that inspires his staff. Gates is also brilliant at
marketing and he has this uncanny ability to outsmart and
outthink the competition. Hence his role in the company was
that of Chairman and Chief Software Architect.

Gates knew in the early days that for his business vision to
become reality, he needed a partner who was strong in
management, systems development, operations and money
management. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) played that role
brilliantly.

Have you heard of The Walt Disney Company, one of the
largest and most successful entertainment companies in the
world? No doubt, it was Walt Disney’s creative genius that
gave birth to legendary characters like Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck and sparked the creation of a string of successful
movies, TV shows and the world renowned Disneyland. Today,
The Walt Disney Company is worth US$63 billion.

Do you think Mr. Walt Disney had all the skills sets to build
such a successful company himself? No way! It is a well-known
fact that Walt Disney was a creative genius who lacked the
management, financial and operational know-how to run a
business. This is one reason why the company went through
12 near bankruptcies in its history. It was Roy Disney (Walt’s
brother) who provided the much-needed skills sets that Walt
lacked that became the historic winning combination.

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