To this day, he said he still has dreams that he's working for O'Reilly, much like adults might dream they are missing a math test in school.

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It was a big jump from hard-core technical books with titles like Applying RCS and SCCS, to Parisian guide books, but as a sole owner O'Reilly was able to finance his dream.

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