Microsoft Turns 50: Where Are Its 12 Founding Employees Today?
In 1978, the coder Bill Greenberg called into a local radio show and, after correctly guessing the name of an assassinated president, won a free portrait. He used the prize to take a professional photograph of his workplace at the time: a scrappy startup called Microsoft (MSFT) that was preparing to upgrade its headquarters from New Mexico to Washington. Back then, Microsoft was still a fledging software company. Adorned with appropriately groovy attire and facial hair, its dozen founding employees...