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What's it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all? Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This title tells the story of how it came about.

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Highly readable, refreshingly honest * Mail on Sunday *
A fascinating tale of the early days of the software industry * Financial Times *
A founding father of the modern information age . . . provides a fascinating insight into the ironies of capitalism * The Times *
He, and a tiny club of others, literally invented the twenty-first century -- Bono
Riveting reading * Observer *

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 5/3/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780241953716, 978-0241953716
      ISBN10: 0241953715
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What's it like to start a revolution? How do you build the biggest tech company in the world? And why do you walk away from it all? Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an entire industry. This title tells the story of how it came about.

      Trade Review
      Highly readable, refreshingly honest * Mail on Sunday *
      A fascinating tale of the early days of the software industry * Financial Times *
      A founding father of the modern information age . . . provides a fascinating insight into the ironies of capitalism * The Times *
      He, and a tiny club of others, literally invented the twenty-first century -- Bono
      Riveting reading * Observer *

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