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Originally posted by fletcher
Before Sam Walton died, I think he was worth over $100 billion - much more than Bill Gates. Each of the kids is now worth about $16.5 billion. I'd take that.
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I guess he did something right.
In a way, he conducted business better than bill gates. Instead of closing up systems and clobbering competition through standards, Sam Walton offered CHOICE. If given a choice early on (1984) most people would have taken the Mac over the Wintel machine (aka IBM clone aka PCs)