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By literally stealing DR DOS, swapping the drive letters for the hard drive and floppy disk, and rebranding as MS DOS
Also mustve been nice to have a mom on the board of IBM to help get a massive deal for his startup.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influenced-the-success-of-microsoft.html
It's always some "started on 3rd base" bullshit with these "self made" billionaires...
Even with "common" people I see this shit and it kills me. I was watching some bullshit "I did x and so can you!" video and this fucker goes on to explain how he had company backing, previous experience, consultants to sit with, and a previous degree...
Yeah guy, I can totally just do that too...