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> Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite

Microsoft is like Marylin Monroe, or Michael Jackson or that person who lived to 123 years old.

You'll never see a company like that ever again in your lifetime.

They did what Standard Oil did, in perhaps an even cleaner and uncontroversial manner.

Tons of talent and luck aligned in the exact right way for it to be the phenomenon it became.



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


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


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




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