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Bill Gates and IPO history

Mario Gabriele
May 11, 2020
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Editor's Letter: Pexip is making IPO history

If there's an art to a roadshow, Bill Gates didn't have it.

In the lead up to Microsoft's 1986 IPO, the man described as a "gawky, washed out-blond" and "something of a ladies' …

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