http://www.businesspundit.com/how-bill-gates-almost-wasnt-the-worlds-richest-man/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:54:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.businesspundit.com/how-bill-gates-almost-wasnt-the-worlds-richest-man/comment-page-1/#comment-86 anthony Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:31:25 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=1602#comment-86 If I recall, Gates' own version of this era was that he simply priced the wholesale on DOS OS so much lower that IBM could offer their "PC+DOS" bundle cheaper than they could offer the "CP/M" bundle. (I recall there was a third OS in the line-up.) Gates elected to gamble on follow-on sales vs. initial bundle royalties! ** It helped that Gates had rich parents, and that he had pirated sales revenue out of MITS, so that he could "float" this exercise. If I recall, Gates’ own version of this era was that he simply priced the wholesale on DOS OS so much lower that IBM could offer their “PC+DOS” bundle cheaper than they could offer the “CP/M” bundle. (I recall there was a third OS in the line-up.) Gates elected to gamble on follow-on sales vs. initial bundle royalties! ** It helped that Gates had rich parents, and that he had pirated sales revenue out of MITS, so that he could “float” this exercise.

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