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Bill Gates Fast Facts
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Bill Gates Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Seattle, Washington
Father: William Henry Gates II, attorney
Mother: Mary (Maxwell) Gates, schoolteacher
Marriage: Melinda (French) Gates (January 1, 1994-present)
Children: Phoebe Adele, 2002; Rory John, 1999; Jennifer Katharine, 1996
Education: Attended Harvard University, 1973-1975
Other Facts
Was No. 1 on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for 12 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007.
Microsoft is the world’s largest software company.
Timeline
1972 – While still in school, co-founds Traf-O-Data, a company which analyzes local traffic patterns.
Summer 1972 – Congressional page for the US House of Representatives.
1975 – Drops out of Harvard and co-founds Microsoft (formerly Micro Soft) with Paul Allen.
1977-1982
1980 – Develops MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) for IBM. Two million copies are sold by 1984, and by the early 1990s, more than 100 million copies are sold.
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