Dave Lane 🇳🇿 on Nostr: Despite his broad lack of ethics and technical competence, Bill's nascent company, ...
Despite his broad lack of ethics and technical competence, Bill's nascent company, Micro Soft, was still 'successful' financially (at least) thanks to what was surely the biggest & dumbest business blunder in history - the IBM VP who gifted Gates a monopoly on the IBM PC and its clones.
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