Facts: - residence: san francisco , california - home town: marietta , georgia - caption: william to around 5,000 attendees legate speaking at the web summit in dublin - birth name: william christopher legate - name: william legate - nationality: american - occupation: entrepreneur , thiel fellow Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william legate .
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william legate is an american entrepreneur , computer scientist , and 2013 thiel fellow described by business insider as one of the most powerful people in tech .he is most widely recognized for creating , at age 14 , the ios application fake-a-text which , combined with his other applications , has received over 5 million downloads to date and is used by 1 in 12 american teenagers .legate was raised in marietta , georgia and graduated from the walker school in 2013 .