<
person> William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of
Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and
Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a
computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose
software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).