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Bill Gates

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)

This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft. For other people with the same name, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company. Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May 2014.^[a] He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

In June 2008, Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife Melinda had established in 2000. He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February 2014 and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft

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My time and career at Microsoft | Bill Gates

Bill Gates shares the story of Microsoft's origins and a company timeline, from his unique perspective co-founding the personal computing giant with Paul Allen.

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Computing has come a long way since my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft. I’m proud of the role our company played in the PC revolution. This is a look at that history through my eyes.

Paul Allen saw the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics one afternoon at ‘Out of Town News’—a newspaper kiosk in the center of Harvard Square. The cover touted the “World’s First Microcomputer Kit.”

Paul knew what those words really meant: The first true personal computer had arrived. He immediately ran to find me and said, “It’s happening without us!” I knew we had no time to waste.

Paul wrote a short letter to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), claiming that we had a version of BASIC f

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Bill Gates

1955–present

Bill Gates News: Entrepreneur Reflects on His Childhood In New Memoir

Bill Gates is sharing exclusive insight into his childhood in his new memoir that hit shelves on February 4. The first of a three-volume autobiography, Source Code: My Beginnings details the Microsoft founder and philanthropist’s early years, including his upbringing and passion for computers.

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In the book, Gates recalls using a computer for the first time at school and writing his first computer program—a game of tic-tac-toe—at the age of 13. “I made a lot of errors trying to figure that out,” he wrote. “A game of tic-tac-toe is so simple, even kids learn it quickly. But it felt like a triumph to get a machine to do it.”

Gates also recounts sneaking out his bedroom window at night to write code as a teenager and staying awake for 36 hours straight to study programming while attending Harvard University. The memoir ends with the 69-year-old revealing that he might be neurodivergent, claiming that he “would probably be diagnosed wi