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Don't forget the story of Bill Gates' parents telling him that if he dropped out of Harvard, he was on his own. It didn't hurt that his mother was on The Unite
by johnohara 15y ago
Don't forget the story of Bill Gates' parents telling him that if he dropped out of Harvard, he was on his own.
It didn't hurt that his mother was on The United Way's National Executive Committee along with then IBM Chairman John Opel.
I'm from Chicago, "the city that works," and that IS how it works.
- acqq 15y agohttp://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-11/news/mn-2837_1_mary-gates http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-11/news/mn-2837_1_mary-g... "In 1980, she discussed with then-IBM Corp. Chairman John Opel, who was also on the United Way committee, the business IBM was doing with Microsoft. Opel, some accounts say, knew little about the venture, but mentioned Mary Gates to IBM executives who introduced Microsoft at a meeting of IBM's top-level management committee a few weeks later. IBM contracted with Microsoft, then a small firm specializing in computer languages, to create an operating system for its first personal computer."