1996 Business Model California Software Developers 
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.
infochachkie.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” from the Wharton School.
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