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How Did Bill Gates Become So Rich? A Rummage-Sale Computer, a Product He Hadn't Built Yet, and the Judge Who Ordered Microsoft Cut in Two
He sold software he hadn't written for a computer he'd never seen, bought the system that became MS-DOS for about $75,000, and survived a judge's order to split Microsoft in two. Here is how Bill Gates really became so rich, and what ordinary investors can learn from it.
Stephen Loke
22 min read
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