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onehandle

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4. They invested a substantial amount of cash to keep the feds off their back. They sold it.

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:20 AM

Jan 2013

When the feds were trying to break up Microsoft, Gates had to help the newly returned Steve Jobs keep Apple alive to 'prove' that they weren't a monopoly.

A few years later Microsoft sold their stock, and made money, but just a Fraction of what they could have made if they had held onto the stock.

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