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Bill Gates

Co-founded Microsoft; made personal computing mainstream with Windows and MS-DOS

USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 1975 Pioneers & Inventors

Key Facts

  1. 1

    Co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen; developed MS-DOS (1981) licensed to IBM

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    Windows OS (1985) made personal computing accessible; became the world's richest person multiple times

  3. 3

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000) has donated $60+ billion to global health, poverty and education

πŸ’‘ Did you know? Gates predicted in 1995: "The Internet is a tidal wave. It changes the rules" β€” just before the dot-com boom

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Pioneers & Inventors

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

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1975

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Co-founded Microsoft

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