Key Points
Billionaires play an outsized role in shaping the global economy, politics, and philanthropy..
While attending Harvard University in 1975, Bill Gates went to work alongside his childhood friend Paul Allen to develop new software for the original microcomputers..
Like several of the tech billionaires on this list, Larry Page embarked on his path to fame and fortune in a college dorm room..
After co-founding Google with Larry Page in 1998, Brin became Google's president of technology when Eric Schmidt took over as CEO in 2001..
Mark Zuckerberg first developed Facebook (now Meta) alongside fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard University in 2004..
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