Microsoft Volume I

7354.873 - 7383.518 Ben Gilbert

Microsoft does $98 million. In an 18-month period from the end of 1982, they go from 25 to 98. It's all on the back of the clones. And unlike Compaq that, you know, yeah, they did $111 million of revenue their first year, they're selling hardware, which has serious cogs associated with it. Microsoft, 100% essentially gross margin, software revenue, more than doubling year on year.