Sure, fine, they were "only" upper class. I'm not really sure what the appropriate response here is when Gates went to the best private schools. Anyways, influ

Sure, fine, they were "only" upper class. I'm not really sure what the appropriate response here is when Gates went to the best private schools. Anyways, influence is as important as wealth: Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.