But but but… my parents stories about self-made, and cheapskate, and he’s rich cause apparently he’s not frivolous, and wears sweatpants, and other dumbass lies they ate up…
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 months agoMommy was one of the higher ups at IBM. Gates got most of it just handed to him. They are not the same.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
No she wasn’t. She was never part of IBM at all.
She simply knew the chairman of IBM because they both served on the United Way board of directors. She was also a lawyer, as was Gates’ dad, which is a likely reason that the contract that Bill signed with IBM was so incredibly friendly to Microsoft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates