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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955)
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In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company
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January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, which demonstrated the Altair 8800, he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)
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The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.
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n 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and Gates donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.
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From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world