20 Facts About Bill gate

1.

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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3.

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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4.

Bill gate is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower.

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5.

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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6.

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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7.

Bill gate was a National Merit Scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973.

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8.

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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9.

Bill gate chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses.

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10.

Bill gate's solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.

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11.

Bill gate's parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.

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12.

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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13.

Bill gate has not officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100, but he wrote code that shipped with the company's products as late as 1989.

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14.

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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15.

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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16.

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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17.

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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18.

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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19.

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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20.

Bill gate appeared in a cameo role in 2019 on the series finale of Silicon Valley.

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