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“No One Will Ever Need a PC in Their Homes.”

Motley Fool Money

The Importance of Enthralling People to Use Technology

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Dan Bricklin created VisiCalc while he was watching a presentation at Harvard Business School. He realized that the financial model that was drawn in the Blackboard is something that he could create on his computer and started working on it as the side. It really became the first spreadsheet as we know it, led to Lotus 123 and Excel and all the things that we use today. So you end up with these little use cases that end up being worth spending quite a lot of money on.

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