Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Bill Gates

Also Known As William Henry Gates III

Founder and Executive

American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, which he established with childhood friend Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975 after the two demonstrated a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Gates served as Microsoft's first chief executive for 25 years. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Birth Date

1955-10-28 1

Birth Year

1955 1

Birthplace

Seattle, Washington, U.S. 1

Nationality

American 1

Defining Contribution

Co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 and served as its first CEO for 25 years, steering the company through the IBM DOS deal and the rise of Windows. 1

Notable Work

Microsoft 2

Connections

Associated With

Entrepreneurship

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and built it into the dominant personal computing software company, becoming one of the defining entrepreneurial figures of the technology industry.

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Licensing

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Microsoft Antitrust Case

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Paul Allen

Gates and Allen co-founded Microsoft together in 1975.

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Software Industry

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