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Burt Sexual posted:Being in the right place, at the right time is every losers lazy explanation for success of other people. Not handed Silver spoon success , but any. William Gates the Third went to some of the first and only schools in the country that had computer labs? Just sayin' it's not like they just stumbled across some hardware one day.
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Burt Sexual posted:Being in the right place, at the right time is every losers lazy explanation for success of other people. Not handed Silver spoon success , but any. this thread is about paul allen, not tha mods.
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Burt Sexual posted:Being in the right place, at the right time is every losers lazy explanation for success of other people. Not handed Silver spoon success , but any. In 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Allen and Gates began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.[17] Allen came up with the original name of "Micro-Soft," according to a 1995 Fortune magazine article.[26] In 1980, after Microsoft had committed to deliver IBM a disk operating system (DOS) for the original IBM PC, although they had not yet developed one, Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), written by Tim Paterson, who, at the time, was employed at Seattle Computer Products.[27][28] As a result of this transaction, Microsoft was able to secure a contract to supply the DOS that would eventually run on IBM's PC line. This contract with IBM proved the watershed in Microsoft history that led to Allen's and Gates' wealth and success.[17] Allen effectively left Microsoft in 1982 after receiving a Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis.[17][29] Gates reportedly asked Allen to give him some of his shares to compensate for the higher amount of work being performed by Gates.[30][31] According to Allen, Gates said since he "did almost everything on BASIC", the company should be split 60–40 in his favor. Allen agreed to this arrangement, which Gates later attempted to amend to 64–36.[32] In 1983, Gates tried to buy Allen out at $5 per share; however, Allen refused and left the company with his shares intact. This proved critical to Allen's becoming a billionaire after Microsoft went public.[32][33] Amazing accomplishments 
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phasmid posted:Sometimes. There are plenty of people who changed the course of history, but I don't know how much that applies to already emerging technologies and their usefulness. In some cases, it is very much opportunity knocking and distinct from pure genius. Just my two cents, but this guy ain't gonna take credit for the whole PC revolution. No single man can. It was the work of decades and we could easily say that WE are in the right place and right time to reap the benefits. Agreed. But these guys saw an opportunity to make a dip switch table machine into something more. And did it. We all don’t have that in our bloodstream, or mindset, or business acumen at age 20. They were not idiots that got lucky.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:14
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Burt Sexual posted:Agreed. But these guys saw an opportunity to make a dip switch table machine into something more. And did it. We all don’t have that in our bloodstream, or mindset, or business acumen at age 20. They were not idiots that got lucky. Bill Gates did that not Paul Allen
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Oct 17, 2018 02:17
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Dude hosed over one of the best defensive players in the NFL and as an NFL owner was a poo poo bag by default. I hope he's in hell right now along with Al Davis and Art Rooney 
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Oct 17, 2018 02:20
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Benny the Snake posted:Dude hosed over one of the best defensive players in the NFL and as an NFL owner was a poo poo bag by default. I hope he's in hell right now along with Al Davis and Art Rooney I bet even Satan himself looks at Al Davis and says "This motherfucker..."
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Oct 17, 2018 02:23
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Blue Train posted:Bill Gates did that not Paul Allen Pm me your landscape changing idea. I got money and attorneys.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:30
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Benny the Snake posted:Dude hosed over one of the best defensive players in the NFL and as an NFL owner was a poo poo bag by default. I hope he's in hell right now along with Al Davis and Art Rooney Footballs
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Oct 17, 2018 02:31
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Burt Sexual posted:Footballs Sportsball is serious business, nerd
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Oct 17, 2018 02:34
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Benny the Snake posted:Sportsball is serious business, nerd It is business, I’ll give you that. Does it change the landscape of all business, no.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:43
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Burt Sexual posted:Pm me your landscape changing idea. I got money and attorneys. what about grass that cuts itself
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Oct 17, 2018 02:46
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haljordan posted:what about grass that cuts itself Just like your momma.
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I mean, sure, it's not like Paul Allen was some dummy that landed in a pile of money. He put in the work with Gates starting in high school. But it also wasn't a Jobs-Woz situation where the "idea guy" flogged the "nuts and bolts guy" for all it was worth. Jobs didn't know poo poo about computers himself, he just knew what people wanted from technology and how to market it to them. Anyway, Bill was the idea guy AND the nuts n bolts guy; he just knew he couldn't do it all himself and needed someone to bounce ideas off of and help out (stealing others' code). Once Bill met Ballmer to handle the business stuff, Allen was superfluous. It's not like he was some amazing thought leader when he was still at Microsoft. Allen's post-Microsoft life was much more interesting anyway. He was a "good" billionaire, as these things go, in that he dabbled in all sorts of projects and business ventures, made philanthropic contributions, and lived it up in the meantime with guitars and yachts. Still doesn't excuse loving over Earl or donating to Republican reelection campaigns, though.
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i wonder where paul allen would want to be burried?? i mean he could have willed it that he gets buried at sea or even in SPACE hell if i died that rich i'd have each limb buried in a different place
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Hyrax Attack! posted:His yacht wrecked a coral reef in the Cayman Islands https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/paul-allen-megayacht-destroyed-most-of-protected-coral-reef-officials-say/ What a piece of poo poo. Good riddance.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:51
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Benny the Snake posted:Dude hosed over one of the best defensive players in the NFL and as an NFL owner was a poo poo bag by default. I hope he's in hell right now along with Al Davis and Art Rooney You mean Al "changed race relations for the better forever in the NFL and elsewhere" davis? That Al Davis? Or a different one?
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Oct 17, 2018 02:51
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Big Beef City posted:You mean Al "changed race relations for the better forever in the NFL and elsewhere" davis?  
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Oct 17, 2018 02:52
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So yes the one I'm referring to who managed to look pretty rough at the stupidly young age of *squints at notecard* 82 in that photo which should cause him to be damned to hell.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:54
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this was his plane btw rip dr evil rip mini me
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Oct 17, 2018 02:54
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Booty Pageant posted:this was his plane btw This thing baffles me. Even knowing what they want it for I still don't loving get it.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:58
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fruity no gay fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 03:01
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Booty Pageant posted:this was his plane btw Too much money and a lot of the dumb poo poo in your notebook comes to life when it should just go in the trash.
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Oct 17, 2018 03:11
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fruity no gay posted:all that money and no kids Yes. Truly.
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Oct 17, 2018 03:13
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fruity no gay posted:all that money and no kids sounds loving amazing
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Oct 17, 2018 03:15
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Chinatown posted:sounds loving amazing Goon dream, but minus the business acumen
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fruity no gay fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 05:24
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That's a nice plane For clowns to fly in at the circus
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Oct 17, 2018 05:36
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Moridin920 posted:That's a nice plane the paul allen circus featuring cybernetically enhanced whales
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Oct 17, 2018 09:25
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Burt Sexual posted:Footballs Feetball 
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Oct 17, 2018 12:30
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Burt Sexual posted:Pm me your landscape changing idea. I got money and attorneys. A dick that sucks itself. I'll purchase the software from a company that has already written it. I've now done as much work as Paul Allen, I'll take my billions of dollars now.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:56
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Feed me an "I'm gay" kitten
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Oct 17, 2018 13:28
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Paul Allen is in London. I had lunch with him last week.
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Dick Fagballzson posted:Paul Allen is in London. I had lunch with him last week. You had lunch with a ghost 
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