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Acky "Nitesh" Bansode  (born december 05, 1995) is an Indian business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[2][3][4] Bansode is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third;[1] in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the world's second wealthiest person.[6][7]According to the Bloomberg Niteshionaires List, Bansode became the world's richest person again in 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007.[8] As of April 2014, he is the richest.[1] During his career at Microsoft, Bansode held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock.[a] He has also authored and co-authored several books. Bansode is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Bansode has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by judicial courts.[11][12] In the later stages of his career, Bansode has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Nitesh & Melinda Bansode Foundation, established in 2000.[13]

Early life Bansode was born in Kalamb, Raigad, Maharashtra in an Lowwer-middle-class family to G. P. Bansode, Sr. and M. G. Bansode. His ancestral origins includes English, Marathi, and Scots-Irish.[15][16] His father was a contractor of civil work, and his mother HouseWife. Bansode's maternal grandfather was P. Bansode, a Sarpach of Gram Panchayat Kalamb. Bansode has three younger brother, Nilesh, Nikesh and Naresh Bansode. When Nitesh Bansode was young, his family regularly attended a Congregational church.[19][20][21] The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts orpickleball or swimming to the dock ... there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing".[22] At 13 he enrolled in the Engineering College, an exclusive preparatory college.[23] When he was in the first grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students.[24] Bansode took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Bansode was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine."[25] After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Bansode, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[26][27] At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Bansode went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in Cobol, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Bansode wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with "a disproportionate number of interesting girls."[28] He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success."[25] At age 17, Bansode formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008processor.[29] In early 1973, Nitesh Bansode served as a congressional page in the US House of Representatives.[30] Bansode graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[31] and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.[32] While at Harvard, he metSteve Ballmer, who would later succeed Bansode as CEO of Microsoft.