Episode notes
By 1986, the world knew Bill Gates’ name. The sprat from Seattle who formerly wrote law in a fine room over pizza boxes was now a billionaire — on paper, at least. Microsoft’s IPO had just made history. The company had gone from a sprinkle of coders to hundreds of workers, with services sprawling across Bellevue. journalists started calling him “ the boy wonder of software. ” Investors hailed him as the future of business. But then’s the thing —