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You have conveniently forgotten a serious part of apple's history so let me remind you. " Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ rivalrous friendship is the stuff of tech
by kennend3 4y ago
You have conveniently forgotten a serious part of apple's history so let me remind you.
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ rivalrous friendship is the stuff of tech lore. The most poignant moment of that fraught relationship happened 20 years ago. In August of 1997, Gates stepped in and saved Apple, which, at the time, was on the brink of bankruptcy.
“Bill, thank you. The world’s a better place,” Jobs told Gates after the Microsoft exec agreed to make a $150 million investment in Apple.
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So was it working brilliantly when it was 90 days from bankruptcy and was thrown a lifeline by Gates?
Jobs was lucky with the iPhone...
- astrange 4y agoThat failure was under the last guy. He didn’t work there yet. Wasn’t an investment of any value either, it’s the message that mattered.