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streetcat1 on Nov 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

You mean luck of copying wordperfect and visicalc? Or maybe the purchased OS and the IBM deal?

profile53 on Nov 24, 2021 | [–]

In the same way standard oil was just another oil company. Execution and business strategy set Microsoft apart, not unique software.

GDC7 on Nov 24, 2021 | [–]

Microsoft bet on GUI when nobody thought it was gonna be the future

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