Re:Bitcoin hits $1T in market value
by iso1210 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:28PM
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Not only did he have the advantages that access to a computer in the 70s had, his dad's lawyer helped him with a good contract, and his mom set him up with the chairman of IBM
But the key thing is if he'd failed, he had a cushion to fall back on. Had Microsoft gone the same way as many other computer companies, he could be confident he wouldn't end up on the streets.
Re:Bitcoin hits $1T in market value
by icedchai on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:38PM
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But he succeeded... and created something worth many orders of magnitude in value compared to what he started with... I think that still counts as self made.
But the key thing is if he'd failed, he had a cushion to fall back on. Had Microsoft gone the same way as many other computer companies, he could be confident he wouldn't end up on the streets.