Bill Gates
Bill Gates didn’t build Microsoft by writing better code—he built it by defining what counted as theft.
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Microsoft
Bill Gates · 1975
Microsoft’s founding was not about building the best software first — it was about controlling the terms of distribution before the market existed. Its early success came from timing, contractual foresight, and treating software as licensable intellectual property — not a service or craft. The company established the template for platform leverage in computing: own the interface, not the hardware.