Don got it right of course. What Allen did, while technically worthwhile is no different than what the founder of Borland did, yet Allen is the third richest man in the world
really? i didn't know that Philip Khan was the whole reason that MSFT had an OS in the first place which Paul Allen is credited with? or did this guy from borland prod Gates to drop out of harvard like Paul Allen did? or show gates that the electronics world was exploding without him like Allen did? or make a profit for MSFT, encouraging them to stay in business, like Allen did by selling products to MITS rather than Gates being the salesman...... where was this guy from Borland? sitting in a chair near the back of the room? Bill Gates was driven alright, but it was Paul Allen in the driver seat the entire way..... he would actually drive to harvard and pick up Gates and force him to read what was going on in the world...... without Paul Allen, Gates would have stayed in Harvard while the PC industry developed with out him, actually it was.........
let's put it in a different way..... Bill Gates is the richest man in the world..... what did he do? did he right the OS? did he create the Clones? (without the clones, MSFT had a fixed fee with IBM, and that fee was less than a Million, let alone a billion)......
what Gates did try and do though was to Give away the OS contract by telling IBM that MSFT was not in the business, he told them to go call Gary Kildall......
does that sound like someone who was driven? my god, the man is the luckiest guy in the world that Gary Kildall was an idiot....he was the luckiest guy in the world that CPQ cloned the PC....... he was the luckiest guy in the world that Paul Allen knew of a OS that could be had..... and he was the luckiest guy in the world that IBM decided they needed to get in on apple's market within one single year, rather than two, if it were two years....they would have done it all internal.... and you call it driven? (nothing wrong with luck though...) but look at it for what it was..... it was a series of events that GATES HAD NO CONTROL OVER...... NOT A SINGLE THING HE COULD HAVE DONE TO CHANGE THESE EVENTS IN THE ORDER THAT HAPPENED.... DRIVEN OR NOT.........
those events i described made him a Billionaire, yet Gates had nothing to do with ANY of them except to be there when Paul Allen called, be there when IBM called, and Be there when Gary kildall said no thanks, and Be there when CPQ decided to be Driven.........
talk about "being there", they should make a new movie about "being there", except this time instead of a gardener, it could be a computer nerd......
Hello????? any of this sinking in yet?
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