In this way, they are lot like Bill Gates and Paul Allen 37 years ago.
FORBES: Could An Internet Of Things Startup Be The Next Microsoft? Three Hobby Kits Hold Promise
One of the items they took this way was a component critical for making their Altair systems work: the BASIC computer language, written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
In the 1970s Bill Gates and Paul Allen lived there and hatched their software company, but Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) departed for Seattle in 1978.
"We ended up with a high concentration of millionaires and multimillionaires, and they predominantly located on the east side of Seattle, " says Mr. Deely, citing tech titans like Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft's founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
Next she flashed a photo of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s founding team--Bill Gates, Paul Allen and another nine of the geekiest dorks you've ever seen.
From Jan. 30: Paul Allen and Bill Gates didn't write BASIC, but Altair BASIC, a programming language.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and talked friend Paul Allen into joining him in Albuquerque, New Mexico to start Micro-Soft.
FORBES: Who Are The Idea Monkeys And Ring Leaders In Your Company?
In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.
The billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen is about to release a memoir offering a scathing critique of his former business partner Bill Gates and insights into where he thinks Microsoft went wrong.
应用推荐