American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
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He turned a dorm-room dropout into the world's first centibillionaire, held the title of richest person on earth for 18 of 24 years, and now deploys that fortune against malaria, polio, and the diseases most of the developed world forgot.
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-wif…
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today....
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years.
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
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