The Quincy Club: California Dreamin'

For 20 years, the John Adams Institute has organized a lecture program called The Quincy Club at schools all through the Netherlands to help young audiences better understand American culture. In 2020, the Quincy Club took a closer look at California and Silicon Valley. You know the names: Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix, Tesla, eBay, Intel and more dominate the tech industry worldwide. How did this come to be?
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When the IBM computer came out it was really rather lame, but as was said at the time, it had three things the others didn't have. The letters I, B, and M. And the Microsoft software was also really lame. The premier system of the day was CPM. IBM decided to use CPM, but they called the company on a Friday and the president was out playing golf and was refusing all phone calls. IBM had a deadline to meet that day, so they took the runner up company, which was Bill Gates'. The moral of the story is that when you are just starting up from scratch on a really tight budget, it can really help if you Mom is on the board of directors of IBM.