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How to Start a Startup

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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. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Thereis no rational way.

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