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> Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite Microsoft is like Marylin Monroe, or Michael Jackson or that person who lived to 123 years old. You'll neve
by GDC7 5y ago
> Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite
Microsoft is like Marylin Monroe, or Michael Jackson or that person who lived to 123 years old.
You'll never see a company like that ever again in your lifetime.
They did what Standard Oil did, in perhaps an even cleaner and uncontroversial manner.
Tons of talent and luck aligned in the exact right way for it to be the phenomenon it became.
- streetcat1 5y agoYou mean luck of copying wordperfect and visicalc? Or maybe the purchased OS and the IBM deal?