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# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:45:43.832Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Seattle in 1955, Gates met Paul Allen at Lakeside School and followed him into computing. He enrolled at Harvard in 1973, took Math 55 and graduate computer science classes, then dropped out two years later to co-found Microsoft. He led the company as CEO for 25 years, became its youngest billionaire at 31 in 1987, and watched his net worth breach $100 billion in 1999. After stepping back — first to chief software architect in 2000, then off the board entirely in 2020 — he pivoted to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private charity on earth, co-chaired with his then-wife until their divorce. The foundation targets tuberculosis, malaria, polio, education, and poverty; Gates also co-founded the Giving Pledge with Warren Buffett in 2010, committing half his wealth to philanthropy. He published the first volume of his memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025.