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Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
United States
Technology
7 answers
I was too emotional about something not going too well.
Microsoft was at the center of the personal computer revolution, and particularly the creation of a software market where you went out to lots of companies, and encouraged them to write software for different applications, mundane applications, wild applications. That idea that you would encourage people to be creative, and build software, and there would be a whole industry around that.
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