Re:Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship
by hogFeast on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:42PM
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Gates was also introduced to Warren Buffett through his dad.
Re:Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship
by rasz on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:49PM
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and to IBM CEO thru his mother.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/243311/former_ibm_ceo_john_o...
"it was Opel who met with Bill Gates, CEO of the then-small software firm Microsoft, to discuss the possibility of using Microsoft PC-DOS OS for IBM's about-to-be-released PC. Opel set up the meeting at the request of Gates' mother, Mary Maxwell Gates. The two had both served on the National United Way's executive committee."
Re:Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship
by aksss on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:32PM
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Isn’t this a really bad comparison though? Most entrepreneurs own small (I mean small) businesses providing services and employment to a mostly local area. Bill Gates and his dad are not representative of most small business owners, and seem rather immaterial to a conversation about entrepreneur success.
The story goes like this -
When Howard was offered Starbucks for US$3.8 million by original founders, he was working to raise funds for that and his current investors went over his back to buy Starbucks. Howard was introduced to Bill Gates Sr.(Lawyer) by a friend, who took Howard to the building where those investors were straight away and threatened them out of it immediately.