Bill Gates, Harvard dropout, Microsoft founder, world's 4th richest man
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Bill and Melinda met in 1987 after she started as a product manager at Microsoft. They married in 1994
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In the 80s, Bill Gates was seen as a ruthless tycoon who allegedly tried to cut Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's equity while he was undergoing cancer treatment
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Steve Jobs once said Gates and his team showed "no shame" and "no taste" in ripping off Apple's products
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The judge in Microsoft's monopoly trial said Gates had "a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success."
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Bill Gates turned around his image with his philanthropy. Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Then came the bombshell. On May 3, Bill and Melinda Gates stunned the world with their divorce announcement
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Reports started swirling about Bill's affairs and his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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When he stepped down last year, Microsoft was probing his involvement with an employee in 2000
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The divorce may bring changes to the powerful Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, say reports