"It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

Bill Gates (1955)
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About Bill Gates

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington, and he showed an early interest in computers and programming. He dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, in 1975. With the success of Microsoft’s operating systems and software products, Gates became one of the richest people in the world.

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