This eventually attracted the attention of the Harvard administration, which was displeased that Gates had used school resources for a commercial project and invited Allen, a non-student, to participate. Gates would later take advantage of Harvard’s generous leave policies to work full-time on Microsoft without technically dropping out. This pattern—use of school resources, administrative concerns, and a strategically timed leave—has obvious parallels with the founding of Facebook. One detail omitted from the film The Social Network, probably because it would have seemed unbelievable, is that
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