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Yes! And somehow this part is always left out when telling the tale of MS and Bill Gates. While in my opinion, it's one of the biggest reasons of the success.
by koonsolo 9y ago
Yes! And somehow this part is always left out when telling the tale of MS and Bill Gates. While in my opinion, it's one of the biggest reasons of the success.
- wslh 9y agoNo company can survive and strive so many years because of a single event like this, not even multiple few lucky events. I don't also think other people have had the gut and attitude to negotiate a non exclusive agreement with IBM at that time.
- koonsolo 9y agoYou are absolute correct. And in no way I want to say Bill Gates didn't deserve his success. But it's hard to argue that this didn't have any effect on the deal that basically made Microsoft.