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Microsoft did have one early venture capital investor: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/David_Marquardt https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/
by rexreed 16y ago
Microsoft did have one early venture capital investor: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/David_Marquardt https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/David_Marquar.... They had VC investment since 1981, which was a full five years before they went public.
Here's some video on the subject: http://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/BillG/Marquardt-Investment_MBR.wmv%C2%A0 http://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/BillG/Ma...
- staunch 16y ago"Starting in November 1980, David F. Marquardt of Technology Venture Investors had discussions with Microsoft regarding a plan to change the partnership into a corporation. This resulted in Microsoft becoming Microsoft, Inc., in June 1981. The ownership and percentage of shares was divided between the principals as follows: Bill Gates 53, Paul Allen 31, Steve Ballmer 8 and Vern Raburn 4. Then in September, Technology Venture Investors purchased 5 percent of the company for $1,000,000." A history of the personal computer: the people and the technology By Roy A. Allan http://books.google.com/books?id=FLabRYnGrOcC&lpg=RA1-PA23&ots=H47U-WwcVP&pg=RA1-PA23 http://books.google.com/books?id=FLabRYnGrOcC&lpg=RA1-PA...
- pg 16y agoYeah, I knew about August, but that sort of late stage investment is not what the thread was about.