Srinivas: Bill Gates wanted everyone hooked on PCs
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas suggested that under Bill Gates, Microsoft pushed for personal computers on every desk to build and maintain a base of "knowledge workers" to drive software sales. Srinivas remarked, "It was the mission of Bill Gates to…get people glued to PCs…All they cared about was selling computers so they could sell software. When you sell more software, that's when you become rich."
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