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#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)

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Bill Gates Core Competency

The company hired a herd of friendly users and they became the unofficial night shift. They offered Gates and the other Lakeside computer junkies an opportunity to try to crash the system. In exchange they would get all the free computer time they wanted. It was often past midnight when the boys finished their work. He says it was when we got free time that we really got in a computer's gate set. I mean then I became hard core.

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