Bill Gates didn't _______ ( seem )like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first bussiness with Microsoft co- founder Paul Allen ______ ( Call ) Traf O- Data . While this early idea didn't work , Gates ' later , ______ ( create ) the global empire that is Microsoft.

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