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Bill Gates was absolutely destroyed, on so many levels, in an AMA, today. (media.patriots.win)
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– Judiwont 6 points ago +6 / -0

Have you never heard of his father?? Bill did make it there on “his own” merits.

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– PatrickHangry 5 points ago +5 / -0

I know that one of his parents was on the IBM board or similar, so he definitely had a leg up, but I'm not too familiar.

That said, I didn't mean to imply that his success was from merit. Instead, I was trying to say that he can't blame his evil on a distant blood relation to a Rockefeller. He made his own choices.

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– anotherthing 16 points ago +16 / -0

Yeah, it's hardly a rags to riches story. His parents were millionaires back when that really meant something. His dad had ties with the Nazis, and he was a lawyer. Both Bill Sr. and Mary Gates were on a variety of key political and business boards. His mom was so influential, she got him that deal with IBM for MS-DOS.

It's crazy that Bill Gates is seen as a "rags to riches" story, when it's absolutely not true.

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– SpiceMustFlow 2 points ago +2 / -0

That’s not how the MS DOS deal went down.

It’s actually a very interesting story and I encourage you to read it.

If you feel like Gates would lie about it read from the IBM perspective.

Gates actually told them to go buy CPM first.

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