{"id":982328,"date":"2025-12-27T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982328"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:51:08","slug":"when-bill-gates-called-his-fellow-microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-a-problem-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/27\/when-bill-gates-called-his-fellow-microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-a-problem-who\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bill Gates called his fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen \u2018a problem\u2019 who \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened up about the profound and sometimes provocative role of his fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In his memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, which was released on February 4, 2025, Gates has credited Allen not only with sparking his passion for computers but also with nudging him into teenage experimentation with drugs and alcohol. Speaking in an interview with Geekwire, Gates joked that Allen was \u2018a problem\u2019 who got him drunk and also gave him marijuana. He further added that Allen was the one who got him introduced to LSD and Jimi Hendrix\u2019s music. While Gates\u2019 parents provided discipline and structure, Allen embodied a different influence which constantly dared Gates to push boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened up about the profound and sometimes provocative role of his fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In his memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, which was released on February 4, 2025, Gates has credited Allen not only with sparking his passion for computers but also with nudging him into teenage experimentation with drugs and alcohol. Speaking in an interview with Geekwire, Gates joked that Allen was \u2018a problem\u2019 who got him drunk and also gave him marijuana. He further added that Allen was the one who got him introduced to LSD and Jimi Hendrix\u2019s music. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}