In 1975 a nineteen year old Bill Gates flew to Albuquerque to demonstrate software he had told a company was finished, and it ran for the first time in front of them. This episode follows the whole story: the school teletype, the Harvard poker games, the eight weeks writing BASIC for a machine he had never seen, the open letter to hobbyists, the IBM deal and the fifty thousand dollar operating system bought without saying who the customer was, the clause that let Microsoft sell it to everyone, Windows, the browser war, the deposition, and the judge who ordered the company split in two.
It also covers the foundation, the Giving Pledge, the plan to spend two hundred billion dollars by 2045, and Microsoft's second act under Satya Nadella. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
