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Gates' Poker and Visionary Skills
- Bill Gates hosted poker games, learning to bluff, a skill that helped him in business.
- He envisioned personal computers delivering vast knowledge to everyone, showing his visionary mindset early on.
Last-Minute Loader Code
- Paul Allen scrambles on the plane to write a loader for their OS from memory just before landing.
- He arrives without testing it but manages to impress MITS with a successful demo.
Power of Bundling and Market Share
- Bundling software with hardware can be a powerful strategy to popularize a product.
- However, software piracy early on showed that maximizing market share is more crucial than direct profit at the start.