Microsoft’s Stunning 44-Year Journey from MS-DOS to the $1 Trillion Club

2019-4-26 20:00

By CCN: In case you missed it, Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company. The tech giant’s better-than-anticipated third-quarter earnings sent the stock soaring over the top, catapulting the 44-year old company into the coveted $1 trillion-club that counts Jeff Bezos’ Amazon among its members.

Microsoft didn’t get there overnight – a then 30-year-old Bill Gates brought the company public in 1986 (a decade before Amazon) at $21 per share, raising $61 million. That price was higher than Gates sought. Oddly enough, he shied away from a valuation of more than half-a-billion dollars in favor of something more conservative. Hate

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2018-12-27 13:00
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2018-12-19 22:41	Facebook
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2018-12-14 13:32	#microsoft
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2018-12-6 20:07	#microsoft
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2018-12-1 02:37	#microsoft
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2018-11-29 12:27	Insider
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2018-11-27 02:13	#microsoft
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2018-11-25 20:00
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2018-11-19 11:17	News
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2018-11-15 16:11	Tech
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2018-11-11 01:48	#microsoft
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2018-11-11 00:10	#microsoft
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2018-10-31 17:07	Startups
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A Year After Launch, BTCPay Has Grown Larger Than Its Creator Expected

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2018-10-24 22:00	Payments
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2018-10-20 17:49
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