Microsoft's founders | TheMoblog

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

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Steve411

Where is Bill Gates?

mscott
Whatup!!!

"Where is Bill Gates?"

bottom row, far left

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

The lighting got me at first, but then I figured it out. Is that a cardboard cutout at the MS Museum?

surferdude
surferdude

Classic. Bill, please don't hate me for this next one.
http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.jpg

Akaina
C9 is cool, but /. has better karma.

That's a cut out from a somewhat famous picture from 1976.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Yeah, it's a display at the museum. More museum stuff coming soon.

sbc
GW R/Me

How many of the original team still work at Microsoft?

tnerb.truell

surferdude wrote:

Classic. Bill, please don't hate me for this next one.
http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.jpg

I hardly recognized that pic without "All your base Are Belong to Us" on the sign

Jaz
From the depths of Wales I come

good question SBC, and who is the oldest MS member perusing these boards (i mean started working with first). come on Mr Gates i know yu're on here somewhere

Frankie Fresh
.NET Developer and so much more.

If someone on here claimed to be Bill Gates, who would beleive him? Smiley

On another note, has the reason behind the "mugshot" picture ever been explained?

mscott
Whatup!!!

Frankie Fresh wrote:
If someone on here claimed to be Bill Gates, who would beleive him?

On another note, has the reason behind the "mugshot" picture ever been explained?

Yes, speeding.

Frankie Fresh
.NET Developer and so much more.

Nice. It's good to know he has a lead foot, too. Wink

The Pirates of Sillicon Valley movie had him driving a tractor on a corn field after one too many. Where the heck did that story come from?

jamie
say what!?

Does Linus have a mug shot? huh? Does he?

WE WIN!

Wink

lars

"Gates, who was becoming increasingly frustrated at having his 959 eternally tied up in the Port of Oakland’s “free trade zone,” suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to “crash and test.”

Autoweek - Federalizing the Porsche 959

/Lars.

LarryOsterman

I've probably got the most seniority of anyone at MS looking at this board fwiw.

The only person of the original 12 that's still at Microsoft is Bill Gates.

tw
tw

LarryOsterman wrote:
The only person of the original 12 that's still at Microsoft is Bill Gates.

All others mysteriously vanished ... Smiley

Steve411

tw wrote:

LarryOsterman wrote: The only person of the original 12 that's still at Microsoft is Bill Gates.

All others mysteriously vanished ...

Or they all gave up their positions to Bill Gates..
Do you guys get to/have met Bill Gates yet? If you have not, and will soon, tell him that there is another Steve coming his way. SOON! Smiley

nemisys
You Know

"Or they all gave up their positions to Bill Gates..
Do you guys get to/have met Bill Gates yet? If you have not, and will soon, tell him that there is another Steve coming his way. SOON! Smiley

"

Hopefully to replace the current one. Do a "Lee Iaccoca" on him and send him to some Microsoft CD packing warehouse so he knows what it is like to really do some work.

ntulip

why would he - the picture is up in the microsoft museum

DrFooMod2
codenoevil.com

Kinda reminds me of my 8th grade class picture.

Anyhow, I'm not sure how you are maintaining your moblog, but I just wrote an addin for Microsoft Outlook 2003 that makes it a breeze to keep your moblog up to date.

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flyhigh510

Where can I get the names of the founders?

keithrull
A man of compassion is a man of passion!

is mr. balmer part of the first microsoft guys?

Mike Dimmick

No.

The first Microsoft guys were Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Allen contracted Hodgkin's disease in 1983 which forced him to leave active management of Microsoft. He remained a director until 2000. His most recent claim to fame is being a major sponsor of the SpaceShipOne project.

Ballmer joined in 1980 and has had a variety of roles in marketing and management. He formerly worked for Proctor & Gamble for two years after attending Harvard, where he met Gates. Unlike Gates, he graduated - Gates dropped out to form Microsoft.

I can't find a reference for the people in the photograph right now - I know that the names are listed in Hard Drive.

Subuki

This is photo that was taken in 1978, names are as follows:

Starting from the top, left: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace & Jim Lane
Next row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenburg, Marc McDonald & Gordon Letwin
Next row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood & Paul Allen