Every discussion of Microsoft and the IBM PC Contract seems to gleam over the fact that Bill Gate’s mom was on the Board of Directors of United Way with then IB

Every discussion of Microsoft and the IBM PC Contract seems to gleam over the fact that Bill Gate’s mom was on the Board of Directors of United Way with then IBM CEO John Opel. Did this affect the final outcome? Idk, but it can help you get your foot in the door. It is easy to see Microsoft as a scrappy software company trying to edge it out, and executing well. But the founders were lucky from birth.