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A 22-Year-Old Bill Gates Is Arrested in Albuquerque, Producing His Famous Mugshot
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On December 13, 1977, Bill Gates — then 22 and running the young Microsoft out of Albuquerque, New Mexico — was arrested after being pulled over for driving without a license and running a stop sign, reportedly in Paul Allen's car. The booking produced the grinning mugshot that became one of the most recognizable images in tech lore; Microsoft later nodded to it by using the silhouette as a default profile picture in Outlook. It was not Gates's first such incident — he had also been cited in 1975 for speeding and driving without a valid license, reflecting a youthful reputation for fast driving. Snopes and contemporaneous records confirm the mugshot's authenticity.
Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mugshot-bill-gates-arrested/
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