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Bill Gates is arguably the number one business leader that the past quarter-century has produced. An instinctive innovator and incurable entrepreneur for most of his life, he started what would be a long career in programming computers at the tender age of 13. He quit Harvard in his junior year to develop what would eventually be Microsoft, co-founding [...]

The worldwide software market today is upwards of $240 billion annually. This is partly because Gates got most computer users to pay for their software, thus starting a trend. The result was expected. Other software companies followed suit, and likewise charged. But Gates was ahead of the game since he virtually invented the concept of the software [...]