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Bill Gates wouldn't have taken off without his mother's help who arranged a contract with IBM for her son in the beginning. And I'm sure there are similar stori
by mojuba 17y ago
Bill Gates wouldn't have taken off without his mother's help who arranged a contract with IBM for her son in the beginning. And I'm sure there are similar stories for the others too. Let's take Ellison's Government project called "Oracle" that the Govt. never used - looks very suspicious and we know very little about how exactly this turned into a private company.
I don't believe in their cheesy "self-made" stories with $1000 put into the company that eventually turns into a multi-billion corporation. That's just impossible.
- muhfuhkuh 17y agoIt is? Well then what the hell are we doing wasting our time on this damn board, then? We should be looking into Build-a-Bear and 10-minute oil change franchises. I guess Sam's 5&10 shop was just as much BS as Betty Crocker, too. I noticed you left out Dell's story. Did his orthodontist dad brace up all the kids in his hometown to afford the million to put down on Michael's computer-makin' biz? Sometimes a businessman starts out with squat. If there is no "there" there, then what are we doing here?
- pg 17y agoThe DOS deal was not the beginning of Microsoft. It was already a well-established company.