I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Bill Gates didn't stick around Harvard for long—he dropped out after three semesters to start Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in 1975. But he was there just long enough to leave a lasting impression. One of ...

Bill Gates was 19 when he decided to quit Harvard, which has long been venerated as a space where only the best and brightest ...

Before Paul Graham defined "founder mode," Bill Gates embodied a similar approach when cofounding Microsoft in the 1970s.

Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, wasn't a fan of school from an early age.

Bill Nye, the "Science Guy," and Bill Gates, the software guy, came together on one stage Thursday night in Seattle for an ...

Throughout his life, Bill Gates has dedicated himself to learning about a wide variety of topics — part of a trait that he ...

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The Harvard dropout revolutionized the computer industry and, later, the world of philanthropy. Now he has been looking back at his childhood, with the first of a three-part autobiography fittingly ...

With the new book "Source Code," Bill Gates is looking back at both the “wonderful” and the weird moments of growing up in ...

The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...

Harvard dropout and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discussed the early days of Microsoft and current developments in artificial intelligence at a sold-out Monday talk in Sanders Theatre.