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I turned down a meeting with Bill Gates in 1982. It was a personal connection, and we were going to meet at his house; maybe his dad's house, maybe he was still
by auxbuss 16y ago
I turned down a meeting with Bill Gates in 1982. It was a personal connection, and we were going to meet at his house; maybe his dad's house, maybe he was still living there, I don't recall. MS was ~150 employees at the time and hiring like crazy. Bill had my cv.
I was visiting from the UK with my girlfriend who was raised in Bellevue. I think I instead opted to jam with a band called Myth in a barn in Redmond. Myth morphed into Queensrÿche soon after, so I guess I missed two chances!
- enjo 16y agoI met a guy who had a double digit Microsoft employee number. He ended up taking another job for like a $5k/year pay raise in the mid 80's.
- MikeCapone 16y agoDo you often think about those "what if"?
- auxbuss 16y agoNo, never, honestly. Life is a sequence of half chances. You make your choices, and you make them for good reasons at the time. Looking at the past doesn't mean that the present would be as it is if you'd made different choices. That's a theme used in almost every time-travel movie.
- mkramlich 16y agoIn a choice between joining Microsoft or Queensryche, I would have joined the metal band too.