The Lunch - Munch

Today, during the lunch time there was a hot discussion going on about the Big - B's in the industry. That time one of them was saying that the Forbes magazine has shown that when they add the money of all the 12 richest people in Asia, its not equal to what Bill Gates has. Yes, I do admit that. But, if we look into the business model then we may probably understand why he is.

Most of our Asian's richest people are holding manufacturing industry. Here for every product to be sold there are many cost involved. Raw materials, Human resources, Manufacturing, Machines, Sales, Marketing & so on.. This is repetative & if more is to be manufactered then more cost is to be spent for the manufaturing.

If we look at the software business model the human resources & computer's are the main manufacturing cost involved. Also, once the product is done & ready for sale. There are no more cost to be spent for more sales. In the sense as in our OOPS concept, the reusability of the product is done & sold to different customers. The same code is sold to various customers all around the world. Which means one product but different copies. So, additionally only CD cost is required. In this scenario Bill gates would be definetely in the lead, happens ;-)