This is Bill Gates’s “greatest mistake ever” - Fast Company

This is Bill Gates’s “greatest mistake ever” Fast Company

We’ve all regretted mistakes we’ve made, but chances are your biggest mistake wasn’t worth at least $400 billion. That’s what Bill Gates recently revealed what he says his “greatest mistake ever” cost him. The mistake? Allowing Android to become the dominant non-Apple smartphone operating system instead of Windows Mobile. Gates revealed his greatest mistake during a recent interview at VC firm Village Global: In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to b...