In this 1978 file photo provided by Microsoft, the 11 people who started Microsoft Corp., are photographed in Albuquerque, N.M., just prior to moving the company to the Seattle area. Shown, top row from left, are: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane; second row, Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin; and front row, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen. Bill Gates, Microsoft's iconic frontman, is finally giving up his full-time gig at the company to devote more time to world health charity work.

Looks more like a Ted Kuzinski family portrait.

Man people were greasy lookin in the 70's....

30 years that seem like 50

Thats alot of money sitting there...

That looks like a bad album cover.

Actually, the guy in the middle looks almost normal. LOL

What a brain trust

which one had the vision of the blue screen of death?

Group of gazillonaires

Goathead would hit Marla Wood........that's an assumption of course.

Hell yeah she got money

Looks like they smoked a lot of pot, although I suspect Gates is as straight laced as they come (maybe not...yeah probably so).

I wish I had M$ stocks from way back then !!

Could also be a "find the serial killer" photo.

True American Grit! .. Now get out there and get you some!

What!?!?

No Al Gore?

He invented them.

CRASHED INBREEDING!!!!!!

They're still......NERDS!

This is wild. I was 8 years old or so and I remember going to a couple of these guys houses with my hippie parents.

I distinctly remember the disgusting cut-off jeans shorts and all of them sitting around this huge computer with a 4" screen. All the screen displayed was stick figured, and it was some sort of commerce game.

This is wild. I can't say for %100 is was with these dudes, but I am pretty sure I was.

Gringo

Would you invest????

I sounded like I was drunk typing...

Gringo