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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16149)	1/15/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>So, it seems that his parents probably encouraged him to stay in school.<<< Sure. Still, he got to clerk in a congressmans office, a classic step on the path to power, and that was no doubt because his dad was a DC lawyer. And yes, he may have dropped out of school, but it was Harvard, with it's cache' and connections, and that was also no doubt due to his parents. Add to that the money, the exposure to connections who knew how the game is really played, the knowledge of how to use and how to dodge the law, the membership in the club. A built in cynical appreciation of how Washington really works must have seeped in much earlier than it does for people who get their information from high school civics patriotism-building exercises out in the hinterlands. And of course the immersive Washington shamelessness must have affected his business instincts 'to the good'. It's not exactly a Horatio Alger story. The main difference with Gates is that most preppies are dim bulbs, and Gates wasn't. Instead, he was a guy with one ovewhelming idea. Chaz P.s. If he had stayed in school 1 or 2 more semesters he would have missed out on the seminal days of the PC revolution. He needed to follow Paul Allen down to their project on that 8080 box and find out about what was missing and could be supplied quickly by them. And of course they had tremendous luck in that first employer and project.