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American History 1988

``` Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom. At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt. As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward. College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft. To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot. ```

Quiet thoughts · Urbano
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418 Chs

Chapter 252 Velvet Sweatshop

When Teresa arrived in Seattle, Microsoft was still quite small.

Back then, she worked for Microsoft as a contractor, and when she became a full-time employee, Microsoft already had more than four thousand employees.

And it occupied a rather large industrial park in the northeast area of Seattle.

"People come here because they love this kind of work," Teresa once told reporters.

Indeed, this is how the "Seattle Times" described Microsoft at the time.

"The break rooms were filled with free soda, nearly every office had windows, and there were two computers on every desk.

During workdays, there often were lunchtime soccer matches, or the executives engaging in comical competitions by jumping into the nearby lake."

Money made everything wonderful, Teresa admitted that working at Microsoft was a joyful thing back then.

When she became a full-timer, Microsoft hadn't gone public yet.