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bill gates was born
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 -
bill gates 's firts software
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. -
bill gates drops out of havard
bill gate dropped out of Harvard and made his third accomplishment, which was building Microsoft. -
bill gates shares his microsoft idea
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helped form microsoft
help microsoft mat $2.5 million and he was only 23 years old. -
bill became president and his wife became vice president of the microsoft corperation
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 -
bill took microsoft corperation public
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. -
they created bill and melinda gates foundation
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this day was his last day at microsoft
this was bill gates last full day at Microsoft
