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Download accidental empires study guide subscribe now. Certainly bill gates doesnt like to be characterized as a megalomaniac, and steve jobs doesntlike to be described as a sociopath, but thatswhat theyare. Mainly academics and nerds, they had no idea how businesses were. Cringely mark stephens and based on his 1992 book accidental empires.
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