A 15-minute video, restored and posted online, features a 39-year-old Bill Gates discussing the founding of Microsoft and collaborations with future rival Apple.
Perhaps most notably, he also touts Microsoft as a crucial part of the future of tech."I think there's an absolutely incredible opportunity here, and I think it's going to be very exciting," Gates tells his employees in the video.Microsoft's founding story is well-known, but hearing it directly from Gates is worth the price of the video's campy '90s music and sound effects.
Those leaps, Allen suggested, could be"pretty rare, pretty dramatic," Gates recalls. At one point, Gates says, he even asked Allen:"Are you serious?" The product? A PC-compatible computer mouse, which Microsoft released in 1983. The mouse became"a very profitable" part of Microsoft's business, Gates says, but"at first it was like maybe we had made a mistake."
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