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  2. If You Bought 1 Share of Microsoft at Its IPO, Here's How ...

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    Microsoft initiated 2-for-1 stock splits in 1987 and 1990. It followed with two 3-for-2 stock splits in the early 1990s and five 2-for-1 splits between 1994 and 2003.

  3. 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. [1] 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 ...

  4. Stock-Split Watch: Is Microsoft Next? - AOL

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    Software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a long history of stock splits.Its share count has been reshuffled nine times so far, and a single share from 1987 would be a basket of 288 Microsoft ...

  5. Timeline of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Bill Gates and Paul Allen first founded Traf-O-Data, which only exists from 1972 until 1975. 1975: April 4: Company: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. [1] As a result of Microsoft's founding, Traf-O-Data became defunct. 1975 April 4 Products Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. 1978: November 1 ...

  6. Bill Gates Sells Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway Shares In Q1 ...

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    Billionaire Bill Gates is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). He is also known for his philanthropic efforts with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust.

  7. Michael Larson (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    When Larson started at Cascade, informally known as BGI (Bill Gates Investments), he was the only employee. In 1996, he later hired Alan Heuberger, a fellow graduate of Claremont McKenna College . Larson originally managed $11.5 billion of the Gates fortune and foundation but that has swelled tremendously over the years as Gates sells his ...

  8. Stock-Split Watch: Is Microsoft Next? - AOL

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    Amid the stock split talk, investors need to keep Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in mind. The current price of around $460 per share is well below the nominal prices at which stocks like Broadcom or ...

  9. Paul Allen - Wikipedia

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    He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.