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Bill Gates on Competition, Lotus, IBM and Excel (1987)

A young, calm and very confident Bill Gates talks about Lotus, Excel, competition, IBM, Windows, OS/2, his vision for the PC industry, CD ROMs, running a business, hiring smart people, being called a "workaholic, " the challenges of business, and much more.

Microsoft went public on March 13, 1986, at an opening price of about $21 per share. 

In 1987, at age 31, Bill was the youngest person to become a billionaire.

That year, Microsoft surpassed Lotus as the world’s largest PC software company.


In 1987, Microsoft employed about 1,800 people.

Among their 1987 releases were OS/2 (text version), Windows 2.0, the Personal System/2 (or PS/2), and others.


Minor color and sound correction by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) 

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