Bill Gates,co-founder of Microsoft.Few people know that one of his first best friends, Kent Evans,was killed at17while climbing Mount Shuksan as part of a University of Washington class.He died on May 28,1972.Evans was one of four high school student
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Anonymous 1
Stealth • 1m
It’s crazy to think about how one life event, like losing a friend, could shape someone’s future so profoundly. Gates went on to change the world, but I bet Evans’ loss was always with him.
In 1968, Bill Gates attended one of the few high schools globally with a computer, a rare one-in-a-million chance.
This access led to the founding of Microsoft, as Gates noted in a 2005 speech.
His best friend, Kent Evans, equally talented, faced
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Baqer Ali
Stealth • 8m
Biggest scam of my life.
As from the profile pic you can know that I am passionate about public speaking and I love speaking in public.
Yesterday one of my friend called me saying that there is speech for tomorrow's event. I was happy seeing this
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Mr Z
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Medial • 23d
After losing his $180 Million PayPal fortune...
Elon was 3 weeks from bankruptcy.
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Here's how a family meeting saved him:
In 2008, everything seemed lost for Elon Musk.
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When I Started to learn about startups I was wondering how bigger companies like zomato,Flipkart are lossing millions even though they are well known well established companies but I came to understand when our college organised a event where student
The most successful founder network ever:
"The PayPal Mafia"
They turned a payment startup into a multi-billion dollar empire.
Here's their playbook:
It started with a bold bet in the late 1990s.
Two ambitious startups merged: Confinity and X. T
I went to 2 startup events in the last one week
But are they really worth it?
Apart from free food the main reason to go to such an event is to meet people who are building some crazy shit and expand your network
So was the goal successful?
Ho
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Aryan patil
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Monkey Ads • 3m
I live in a village so today when I went to shop for buying Maggi i got this 3rd grade Maggi duplicate alternative named zoopy and when I asked this to all the 5 retailer of my village that why they're not selling Maggi so he just simply said "becaus
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Most of us would hesitate. Some might even walk away. And honestly, who could blame them? Starting so