Co-founder of Microsoft & Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
From writing code in a high school computer lab to building the software that runs the world — Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft, became the world's richest person, then pivoted to spending his fortune trying to eradicate disease and reshape global education.
📉 Fall 13 min read In the late 1990s, Bill Gates controlled the operating system on more than 95% of the world's personal computers — and then a free browser turned that dominance into the most dangerous legal fight of his career. This is how Microsoft nearly got split in two.
👑 Legends 25 min read He bluffed IBM into the deal of the century, crushed every competitor who dared challenge him, built a monopoly so total the U.S. government tried to break it apart — then walked away from it all to try to eradicate malaria. The most ruthless nerd who ever lived.
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