Bill Gates ‘tried to cut his Microsoft co-founder out when he got sick with cancer’
March 31st, 2011 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANILondon, Mar 31 (ANI): A damning memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has claimed that Bill Gates tried to cut him out of the business when he fell ill with cancer.
According to the memoir, Gates wanted to dilute Allen’s share in the company when the latter was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1982 because he didn’t think he was working hard enough, reports the Daily Mail.
He accuses Gates of ‘mercenary opportunism’ and trying to ‘rip him off’ - even though he later backed down.
In his autobiography, Allen paints an unflattering portrait of Gates as a slave-driver who publicly belittled co-workers and jeered at them for wanting to take time off.
The book - an adaptation of which can be read in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine - has supposedly created a rift between the two men who had met at primary school and formed one of the most iconic business partnerships in the world.
They had previously been thought to enjoy a warm relationship over their years working together. (ANI)
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