Marla Wood
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Microsoft staff photo, December 7, 1978. From left to right:
Top: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane.
Middle: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin.
Bottom: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen
Missing: Ric Weiland, Miriam Lubow.
Gates described the photograph in 2009 as "that famous picture that provides indisputable proof that your average computer geek from the late 1970s was not exactly on the cutting edge of fashion."[1]
Top: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane.
Middle: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin.
Bottom: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen
Missing: Ric Weiland, Miriam Lubow.
Gates described the photograph in 2009 as "that famous picture that provides indisputable proof that your average computer geek from the late 1970s was not exactly on the cutting edge of fashion."[1]
Marla Wood worked as an administrative assistant and bookkeeper for Microsoft, and was one of the company's first 12 employees. She organized the non-exempt employees at Microsoft and filed an overtime pay dispute, which was later settled. In 1980, she and her husband, Steve, became the first of those 11 to leave Microsoft.
Marla Wood now spends her time raising the couple's two children and working as a volunteer in Sammamish, Washington. The couple is estimated to have a personal net worth of $15 million.
See also
References
- ↑ "Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories". Retrieved November 30, 2012.
External links
- Associated Press profile of early employees
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