person William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of

Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen.

In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft

is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out

of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose

software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes,

February 3, 1976).