How did Bill Gates, the world’s most generous philanthropist and founder of Microsoft, become a billionaire? This Forbes profile dives deep into the greatest collection of billionaire data, tracking his career, success and giving from the earliest days and breaking down all of his assets in detail.
Bill Gates turned his passion for computers into a job his senior year in high school coding for the electrical grid at a power plant in Washington state. He later dropped out of Harvard to launch software firm Microsoft with his high school friend Paul Allen in 1975 and took it public in 1986. Microsoft played a pivotal role in changing the landscape of personal computing, beginning at a time when very few individuals owned a computer.
In high school he and his friend Paul Allen stole the password file for the offsite computer they had access to; Gates told a reporter atGates dropped out of Harvard following his second year in order to join his friend Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico to work on adapting software for the Altair 8800, a newly released personal computer. They cofounded Micro-soft in November. Gates and Allen did early work on their software in the Harvard computer lab.
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Outside the Gates...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM AKDT\nTUESDAY...\n* WHAT...Snow and blowing snow. Additional snow accumulations of\nup to 2 inches along the Richardson Highway from Paxon north to\nIsabel Pass. Additional snow accumulation up to 2 inches along\nthe Glenn Highway and Tok Cutoff. North winds gusting to 40 mph\nnorth of Paxon this afternoon through Tuesday morning.\n* WHERE... Northern half of the Copper River Basin.\n* WHEN...Until 4 AM AKDT Tuesday.\n* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Blowing snow from\nPaxon north could reduce visibility to one half mile at times.
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Resident hears voices outside home: Gates Mills blotterAround 1 a.m. Sept. 30, a resident in the 7000 block reported hearing voices outside his house from an open window. Responding officers did not locate anybody on the property and a check of the resident’s Ring camera also did not show anybody on the property.
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