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by akrymski 2184 days ago
Steve didn't start with the iPhone, and Elon didn't start with Tesla.

1976: Wozniak built Apple I in 16 months, but he actually started selling the schematics for the computer before that.

1981: Gates bought QDOS for $75k and hired Paterson to modify it into MS-DOS; that’s what he licensed to IBM within months.

1995: Musk built Zip2 in less than a year, selling it for $305M just 4 years later.

2004: Zuck built v1 of Facebook in 2 weeks.