Robert Gaskins invented PowerPoint, drawing on ten years of interdisciplinary graduate study at Berkeley and five years as manager of computer science research for an international telecommunications R&D laboratory in Silicon Valley. Gaskins managed the design and development of PowerPoint as a startup where it attracted the first venture capital investment ever made by Apple Computer. It was released for Macintosh in April 1987; soon after, it became the first significant acquisition ever made by Microsoft, who set up a new business unit in Silicon Valley to develop it further.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
PowerPoint at Age 30 Has Many Fans Among Millennials
May 5, 2017
PowerPoint at 25: Conversation with Robert Gaskins
August 13, 2012