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re: George RR Martin has a message for people who don't think he will finish ASOIAF
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:29 pm to LoveThatMoney
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:29 pm to LoveThatMoney
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You and I see life very differently. To use the great "Silicon Valley" for an analogy, you would have been happy taking the $10M and retiring to a coconut beach somewhere, while I would want to build an empire and be remembered as the guy who started X Company. No one remembers the guy Bill Gates bought Windows from. Everyone knows Bill Gates. And will for a long time to come.
If you're using the HBO show for comparison, the protagonist was about 24-26 years old when he was given that $10,000,000 offer, not a 65 year-old author that was already recognized as one of the greats of his genre. Bill Gates, on the other hand, is currently only 58 and gave up his position as CEO at the age of 45. His involvement in Microsoft, even as CEO was probably less intense than Martin's involvement in writing these books and helping to develop the HBO series, i.e. Martin writes for himself, whereas Gates had thousands working for him.
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