Spohr: Early Microsoft technical writing earnings built seven-figure portfolio
Matthew Spohr · He Closed the Paper the Same Month He Buried His Wife · Dec 13, 2022 · at 1:01
Entrepreneur Matthew Spohr describes how his early technical writing career at Microsoft provided the capital that funded his subsequent ventures.
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“I was a lucky English major who got to be a technical writer at Microsoft and very early on, like we're talking way back in the Reagan administration, frankly. And that was good for me. It wasn't as good as the developers I know who made piles of money at the time, but I made enough, right? And so that plus some time was able to get me a seven figure portfolio.”
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