# Bill Gates

Bill Gates worked in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century software, personal computing, philanthropy, global health, education, climate, and public policy. He co-founded Microsoft and helped build a software-licensing and platform business around programming languages, operating systems, productivity applications, developer ecosystems, and enterprise scale.

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