Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by James Wallace and Jim Erickson
The 1992 account of Gates's early years: Lakeside, Harvard, Albuquerque, the IBM deal, the ferocious competitor. Unauthorized and vivid.
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you want young Gates and the making of Microsoft.
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you want his later philanthropy.
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Three things you will actually use
- Own the standard.
- Outwork and outnegotiate.
- Paranoia as strategy.
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Read the IBM chapters.
Our verdict
The young Gates.
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