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It's reasonably accurate. IMO, MS grew because of DOS. They were hoping Gary Kildall's C/PM would be the OS for the IBM PC, and only leveraged DOS "to save the
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's reasonably accurate. IMO, MS grew because of DOS.
They were hoping Gary Kildall's C/PM would be the OS for the IBM PC, and only leveraged DOS "to save the language business."
It's not clear how much of a factor Gates' parents' wealth and social network was in this process. Yeah, his Mom was on the board of IBM but Microsoft was an established brand already.
- sidlls 10y agoHis company didn't spring into being without a history. He had access to educational and tutoring resources, specifically technology related resources, his entire life. I'd say it's very clear his parents' circumstances were a huge factor in his early successes, and arguably much more important than those successes were to later ones.