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BlueStreak

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Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 07:37 AM

Dec 2013

Read "Accidental Empires". Almost all of these high-tech billionaires are innovators, but they had to be in the right place at the right time, ind it didn't hurt that Gates father was already very wealthy and could help fund the early activities.

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