Gurley continued with computers after college and landed a job at Compaq in Houston, down the road from his hometown. In 1989, Compaq was a growing powerhouse of computer manufacturing, and Gurley was lucky to score a job debugging software for the company. It helped that his sister, an electrical engineering major, was employee number 63. When he wasn’t spotting problems with software at work, he tracked technological advancements closely. He traded stocks on his Prodigy internet personal account. He devoured tech magazines and plowed through dense, finance-heavy analyst reports on
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