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American businessman and philanthropist (born )

This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft. For other people with the same name, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, ) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

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He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company. Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May ^[a] He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the s and s.

In June , Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife Melinda had established in He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nad