Traf-O-Data

Traf-O-Data

Industry	Transportation engineering
Founded	1972; 52 years ago (1972) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Founders	Bill Gates Paul Allen Paul Gilbert
Defunct	1975; 49 years ago (1975)
Fate	Renamed to Microsoft
Successor	Microsoft Corporation
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington , U.S.

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Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft Corporation a few years later.^[1]