Personally, I never thought of Gates as a genius. I regarded him a a geek who came across something that, if he hadn’t made it, someone else would have in short order. He was in the right place at the right time and grabbed a golden ring.
Steve Jobs was more of a genius than Gates was, but Jobs was more of a marketing genius who saw the future and implemented it and not even close to a technical genius. (His technical genius was Wozniak)
if he hadn’t made it, someone else would have in short order.
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Actually he did not make it. He bought the original DOS from someone else. The only smart thing he did was not sell it to IBM but instead license it for their machines.
Once money came flowing in he hired others to keep it going and when someone outside his control had a better way he simply bought them out.
He did not make anything ...he bought it from IBM!!!