[betterprojects]

Perhaps a better lesson we all can learn from should be “don’t idolize” rather than “don’t meet your idols”. Learn from the good and the bad and grow from the experience.

Reminds me of the famous quote from The Dark Knight, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. No one, companies included, is perfect. You stick around long enough, you’ll find the bad.

[hnfong]

There are other ways to reach one's goals or dreams, but at least for GP's case it seems the "idolization" of Bill Gates and Microsoft has motivated them to work hard and improvement themselves to the point that they could eventually get hired by Microsoft.

One counter saying that it's not a worthwhile goal... but I'd say that every goal , worthwhile or not, requires a certain level of rose-tinted glasses anyway.