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  2. Bob O'Rear - Wikipedia

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    Bob O'Rear. Robert "Bob" O'Rear is a former employee of Microsoft, and is among the group of eleven early Microsoft employees who posed for a company photo taken in Albuquerque in 1978. A Texan, he has degrees in mathematics and physics. He left Microsoft in 1993, and reportedly owns a cattle ranch in Texas.

  3. Jeff Raikes - Wikipedia

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    3. Jeffrey Scott Raikes (born May 29, 1958) is the co-founder of the Raikes Foundation. He retired from his role as the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014. [1] He serves on the boards of Giving Tech Labs, [2] Hudl, [3] Costco Wholesale, [4] the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at ...

  4. History of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...

  5. Panos Panay (technology executive) - Wikipedia

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    Panos Costa Panay. United States. Alma mater. California State University, Northridge. Known for. Surface, Chief Product Officer at Microsoft. Panos Costa Panay ( Greek: Πάνος Κώστα Παναή) [1] is a Greek American business executive. He leads Amazon’s consumer electronics business, which includes Alexa, Echo, Kindle, Fire TV ...

  6. The World's Billionaires 2012 - Wikipedia

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    The list average was a net worth of $3.7 billion. [2] To coincide with the release of the 2012 list, Forbes announced a new "Billionaire Real-Time Ticker" updating the wealth of the world's top fifty billionaires in real time.

  7. Jim Gray (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Jim Gray (computer scientist) James Nicholas Gray (1944 – declared dead in absentia 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation". [4]

  8. Jon Shirley - Wikipedia

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    Kim. . ( m. 2016) . Jon A. Shirley (born April 12, 1938) is a former president, chief operating officer, and director of the Microsoft corporation. He is a collector of vintage cars and modern art.

  9. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    1. Markus Alexej Persson ( / ˈmɑːrkəs ˈpɪərsən / ⓘ, Swedish: [ˈmǎrkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as " Notch ", [3] is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known for creating the sandbox video game Minecraft, which has since become the best-selling video game in history; and for founding ...