Bill gate is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.
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Bill gate is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.
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Bill gate was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Bill gate stepped down as chairman of the board of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.
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Bill gate is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower.
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Bill gate's father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America.
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Bill gate wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.
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Bill gate was a National Merit Scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973.
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Bill gate scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.
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Bill gate chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses.
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Bill gate's solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.
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Bill gate's parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.
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Bill gate berated them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
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Bill gate gradually divided his responsibilities between two successors when he placed Ray Ozzie in charge of management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.
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Bill gate stated that it was within their skill set of being the dominant player, but partially blames the antitrust litigation during the time.
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Bill gate has urged governments and the private sector to invest in research and development to make clean, reliable energy cheaper.
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Bill gate tried to convince Joe Manchin to support a climate bill from the year 2019 and especially in the months before the adoption of the bill.
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Bill gate's days are planned for him on a minute-by-minute basis, similarly to the U S president's schedule.
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Bill gate's image morphed from "tyrannical technocrat to saintly savior" to a "huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist", celebrated on magazine covers and sought after for his opinions on major issues like global health and climate change.
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Bill gate appeared in a cameo role in 2019 on the series finale of Silicon Valley.
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