I have tremendous respect for Bill Gates, but who the heck thinks of him as "crown prince of the world wide web"? He famously admitted to getting his "butt kic

I have tremendous respect for Bill Gates, but who the heck thinks of him as "crown prince of the world wide web"? He famously admitted to getting his "butt kicked" on developing the web's most important monopoly [1]. While he was prescient within MS of realizing the web's importance [2], he misunderstood what type of competition would drive it's growth and let companies like Google succeed. Let's give Gates credit for the right stuff: - Realizing the powern of the OS to be gatekeeper to a new consumer and Enterprise market. - Recognizing and duplicating (while eventually improving) key adjacent tech, like GUI and the office suite. - Most importantly, his extraordinary later life philanthropic initiative, putting not just cash but judgement (real "smart money") to work on important problems. [1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1023983/google-kicked-our-butts-bill-gates-admits https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1023983/google-kic... [2] http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.html http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.htm...