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They all had money.
Bill Gates big win was his mum worked in Stanford(?) library/lab so he had unfettered access to a PC for weeks on end vs CS majors who had a couple hours a week.
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Bill Gates big win was his mum worked in Stanford(?) library/lab so he had unfettered access to a PC for weeks on end vs CS majors who had a couple hours a week.
Just occured to me that this was how I ended up in my career.
My Mum was a teacher at Forest Hill Boys School and had access to a computer in the mid 1980s. I taught myself to code on it in 1987 while waiting for my Mum to finish work in the evenings. I was 7 at the time.
Didn't get my own computer until the early 90s, when one of my father's colleagues gifted us an old Amstrad.
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He went to the only US high school (private) to have a computer at the time.
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Bill Gates big win was his mum worked in Stanford(?) library/lab so he had unfettered access to a PC for weeks on end vs CS majors who had a couple hours a week.
He went to a quite fancy private school near Seattle. The school raised money from parents to buy a computer so the kids would have constant access to it as they realised it was what they'd need to know as they entered the workforce. So he had a wealthy family, a good school and all the advantages that go with it.
I don't think his parents gave him actual cash money, but obviously they gave a smart kid all the opportunities to succeed and a safety net if dropping out of Harvard hadn't worked out.
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Wut? I genuinely thought Bezos was born into poverty and was raised by his teenage single Mum! Are you sure you're not mixing him up with Bill Gates, who had a pretty solid financial helping hand from rich parents...