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By Brian O’Connell Bill Gates has been a technology kingpin since the 1970s and now he’s moved on even bigger things. Bill Gates, the most famous Harvard University dropout in history, has stood at the forefront of the technological revolution for half a century. He founded Microsoft in 1975 with the idea that technology could make the world a better place and he’s never backed off that sentiment. Now, Gates is on a new crusade to literally save the world. His Gates Foundation has given grants totaling $65 billion, in all 50 U.S. states and in 144 countries around the world. Gates, whose perso…
