Chronicles of Semiconductor Pioneers Chapter 23

"Sir, if IBM wanted to acquire Microsoft, would you agree?"

Alex Zhou looked directly at him, and Bill Gates smiled and said, "Well, it seems you don't know much about the history of Microsoft.

I wanted to sell DOS to IBM in 1980, which is the earliest version of the current office series.

The price I quoted was about $70,000.

Later in 1986, when Microsoft had launched its first Windows system, I proposed to sell 10% of Microsoft's shares to IBM.