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This 15 page paper discusses two of today’s biggest companies, Microsoft and Amazon.com, and compares them with the giants of yesterday, Ford Motor Company (Henry Ford and the assembly line) and John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. The paper argues that though there are significant differences, especially because of technological developments, the passion and drive that made Ford and Rockefeller successful are also present in Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, and accounts for their success. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and differences, as well as what the future might hold. Discussion First, a word about the research for this paper. Its always difficult to choose search parameters that return useful
results when the subject is both broad and relatively vague. Repeated searches for things like "similarities +Ford Motors +Microsoft" returned very strange stuff but nothing that actually compared the companies.
It seemed then that the logical thing to do was to look at the history of some of the economic powerhouses of the past and present, and draw conclusions about
them based on that information. Since its one of the biggest companies in the world, and possibly the most irritating, well begin with Microsoft. Bill Gates comes from an upper-middle
class Seattle family, and early on revealed an aptitude for math and science (The history of Microsoft, 2000). In 1968, his parents sent Gates to Lakeside Prep School, which proved
to be challenging enough to interest him; its also the place where he first encountered computers (The history of Microsoft, 2000). In 1968, computers took up entire rooms, and were
wildly expensive, so the school didnt own one of its own; instead, it made arrangements with various companies to let the students use their computers (The history of Microsoft, 2000).
Gates and his friends, including Paul Allen, soon became so fascinated by the machines that they began to skip classes, "opting instead to stay in the computer room and
write programs, read computer books and find out exactly how these machines worked. They soon learned to hack the system, and altered and crashed valuable files until they were banned
from the computer" (The history of Microsoft, 2000). Soon, though, the computer company hired Gates and his friends to "find bugs and explore weaknesses in the system, which kept causing
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