In the memoir, Allen claims Bill Gates tried to screw him out of shares in Microsoft when the firm was in its infancy.

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Mr. SHURKIN: He had this enormous talent of picking geniuses, of exceptionably bright people to work for him, and it took him about a year and half to screw it up.

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