Bill Gates may be best known as the brain behind Microsoft, but before he became one of the richest men in the world, he was a young tech geek ... co-founder Paul Allen's car when he was stopped.

Microsoft was shaped by Bill ... Allen - Paul Allen, born in 1953 in Seattle, was a schoolmate of Gates. Allen was 10 when he started a science club at home, and would later bond with young ...

On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Micro-Soft, marking the beginning of what would become Microsoft. Just five years later, in 1980, the company secured a deal with IBM to supply ...