• vis4valentine
    10·
    3 years ago

    To expand on Bill Gates, he actually was from a family of bankers, he was born rich already. Many people point him out as a college dropout who created an empire, but he could drop out and start a company and never risk get homeless or be hungry cuz his family had a lot of money.

    From all the tech billionares, Steve Jobs and Wozniak are the only ones who actually started from the ground.

    • AgreeableLandscapeOP
      9·
      3 years ago

      I think for the Jobs and Wozniak story, the fact that Wozniak was the engineer and actually made Apple’s computers work, while Jobs was the marketing and appearance guy, but it’s Wozniak who got kicked out of the company and barely remembered by Apple fans, says a lot about the priorities of capitalism.

      • vis4valentine
        7·
        3 years ago

        It happens everywhere, like fashion brands that never speak about the people who actually make the cloths, and people who forget that Bill Gates literally stole DOS, or people who praise movie directors a lot and forget that in the credits of their own movie there are other 4 writers and 2 editors.

        I really like Woz, he is still a good guy to this day.

        • k_o_t
          4·
          3 years ago

          Bill Gates literally stole DOS

          wait what, really?

          • vis4valentine
            5·
            3 years ago

            Gates had a meeting with IBM promising a new OS. The thing is, they had nothing. So they came to a guy who was developing the original DOS, although it was rough and not finished. Bought the OS from his for I think 42000 dollars and later came back to IBM to show it to their executives and made a multi million dollar licensing deal with them and renamed it to MSDOS.

            Yeah, bill gates literally stole DOS.

            Watch a movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley, its a movie about how both gates and jobs started MS and Apple. There is a wonderful scene that shows what I just told you. The movie is really good.

            • AgreeableLandscapeOP
              2·
              3 years ago

              This happens all over capitalism. One similar thing that comes to mind is how Ray Croc basically ruined the McDonald brothers with his tactics to force the sale of their fledgling company, McDonald’s, to him.

  • tracyspcy
    5·
    3 years ago

    lol google

    In 1994, digital libraries became widely visible in the research community due to a $24.4 million NSF managed program supported jointly by DARPA’s Intelligent Integration of Information (I3) program, NASA, and NSF itself.[8] Successful research proposals came from six U.S. universities.[9] The universities included Carnegie Mellon University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Stanford University. Articles from the projects summarized their progress at their halfway point in May 1996.[10] Stanford research, by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, led to the founding of Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library

  • मुक्त
    3·
    3 years ago

    The good old journey of mavericks from rich, to super-rich.
    Still impressive, but clearly not as impressive as is generally thought to be.

    EDIT : Just adding another nugget. I recall reading that Bezos’ grandfather was head of DARPA.

      • murky
        3·
        3 years ago

        Thanks for digging out this article from 1999! It’s such a good read and gives valuable insight into the beginnings of Bezos & Amazon

    • AgreeableLandscapeOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      I don’t think it’s impressive. All I see is an exploiter and all I think is how many people did they cheat and step on to achieve what they did.