After 13 years of dominance Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest man, having been surpassed by Mexican telecommunications giant Carlos Slim, according to an estimate by a Mexican financial publication. Bill Gates who’s estimated currently at $59.2 billion, has been surpassed by Slim as his telecommunication company, American Movil, whose shares recently surged in price by 27%, boosting his net worth to $67.8 billion.But is he good enough to give Bill Gates a tough run in this billion$ race? I don’t think so….shares bloom then fades.
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Hope all are familiar with this below pic. The Microsoft group photo back in 1978,December. The first 11 who kicked off all this fire. Of course you recognize Bill gates in this photo, but just for a thought; what happened to others? Where are they? What they doing now? Are they still with Microsoft?
Waiting for answers? Read on.
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| Steve Wood | Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1980. Married to Marla Wood. Now runs a telecommunications company. EW $15 million. |
| Bob Wallace | Production manager-designer. Left Microsoft in 1983. Was a psychedelic-drug advocate. Died in 2002. EW $5 million. |
| Jim Lane | Project manager. Left Microsoft in 1985. Now owns his own software company. EW $20 million. |
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| Bob O’Rear | Chief mathematician. Left Microsoft in 1993. Now a cattle rancher. EW $100 million. |
| Bob Greenberg | Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1981. Helped develop Cabbage Patch dolls for Coleco. Now makes software for golf courses. EW $20 million. |
| Marc McDonald | Programmer. Microsoft’s first employee. Left Microsoft in 1984 because it was “too big”, then rejoined the company when they bought Design Intelligence, the company he was working for. Has the honor of wearing badge number 00001. EW $1 million. |
| Gordon Letwin | Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1993. Now an environmental philanthropist. EW $20 million. |
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| Bill Gates | Co-founder. Still Microsoft chairman and chief architect. Now the richest person in the world. EW $50 billion. |
| Andrea Lewis | Technical writer. Left Microsoft in 1983. Now a freelance journalist. EW $2 million. |
| Marla Wood | Bookkeeper. Married to Steve Wood. Left Microsoft in 1980, then sued the company for sex descrimination. Now a self-described “professional volunteer”. EW $15 million. |
| Paul Allen | Co-founder. Left Microsoft in 1983 but remains a senior strategy advisor to the company. Now sports team owner, space enthusiast, and philanthropist. EW $21 billion. |
The Microsoft geeks are back after years of core development with as simple as a coffee table. Ya right I am talking about Microsoft surface. Its time to use table top as your computer display which recognizes objects placed on the surface and skips the traditional keyboard and mouse in favor of a touch screen(in fact much more than a touch screen).Take a look at how this master technology is crafted in this behind-the-scene movie videoed right inside Microsoft labs.
