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The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a ....

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.... in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of Washington, where he studied computer science. Gates left Harvard after just two years of education, and planed on programming for many personal computers. He and Allen later founded the Microsoft company --a name which Gates had picked -- in 1975 (Cusumano and Selby 24). When Microsoft started out, there were only three employees--Gates and Allen included. The gross revenue totaled sixteen thousand dollars. By 1978, Gates and Allen had employed eleven other people, but the revenue had jumped to 1.3 million dollars. The growth rate was quite steady until 1982-198 ....