Bill Gates: The Early Years

Bill Gates Microsoft Paul Allen
Lakeside School / Microsoft

Geniuses at Work
Gates watches his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968. Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school, which was around the time this photo was taken.

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