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bill gates was born on oct. 28 1955
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Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments
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bill gates wrote the first versatile software program, Altair BASIC, that became the industry standard. bill gates was the first to challenge the freebie software distribution in a capitalistic letter.
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bill gate dropped out of Harvard and made his third accomplishment, which was building Microsoft.
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shared his idea
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help microsoft mat $2.5 million and he was only 23 years old.
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Microsoft's growth exploded, and staff increased from 25 to 128. Revenue also shot up from $4 million to $16 million. In mid-1981 Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, and Gates was appointed president and chairman of the board
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Bill Gates took Microsoft public with an initial public offering (IPO) of $21 per share. Gates held 45 percent of the company's 24.7 million shares and became an instant millionaire at age 31. Gates' stake at that time was $234 million of Microsoft's $520 million. Over time, the company's stock increased in value and split numerous times.
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this was bill gates last full day at Microsoft
