Bill Gate and Paul Allen: Founders of Microsoft
Who would have thought? But Bill Gates remarkably failed with his first business, Traf-O-Data. The product, which he designed along with Paul Allen, aimed to process and analyze data from traffic tapes. But when it was time to launch, Traf-O-Data didn’t work. A few years later, he began working on Microsoft, the company that would go on to produce the OS I am using on my PC.
‘Even though Traf-O-Data wasn’t a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft’s first product a couple of years later,’ Paul Allen said of the failure.
Written by: Gbenga Onalaja
