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Bill Gates  William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. The son of a prominent lawyer and a businesswoman/schoolteacher, Gates demonstrated exceptional aptitude for mathematics and logic from an early age. He attended the prestigious Lakeside School, where he first encountered computers and met future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Gates entered Harvard University in 1973 but dropped out two years later to pursue what would become Microsoft.Bill Gates The partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen began long before Microsoft’s official founding. As teenagers at Lakeside School in Seattle, they spent countless hours on the school’s ASR-33 teletype terminal, honing their programming skills. This early access to computing technology—rare in the late 1960s—proved foundational. Their first commercial venture together was Traf-O-Data, a system to analyze traffic patterns, which failed commercially but provided crucial experience. When the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured the MITS Altair 8800…

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