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Biographies Of The Rich And Famous
What they would say if they were written honestly
Bill Gates was born into an ordinary upper-middle class millionaire family and faced a life of struggle to enjoy all the privileges that were handed to him. Forced to attend an obscure second-rank college called Harvard, Bill realized that hard work was what would carry him to fame and an even larger fortune: other people’s hard work.
Bill soon dropped out of college to pursue his dream: a software company where he could shout at hapless underlings and leverage his mother’s connections with IBM to be handed a contract for the operating system required by the behemoth’s forthcoming microcomputer. The fact that Microsoft (possibly the worst corporate name in history) didn’t actually have an operating system was no concern for Gates, who knew he could buy someone else’s OS for peanuts provided he never mentioned the IBM deal. And so one of the world’s most powerful software companies was born.
Later in life, Gates became a philanthropist under the mistaken notion that this meant he’d spend the rest of his days collecting rare and highly valuable stamps.
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Elon Musk’s life was defined by the childhood trauma of discovering that his parents had been unable to spell the name Elton correctly…
