I discovered recently one of my new neighbors just retired from MSFT and was one of the original members of the QBasic team. Considering how much time I spent as a kid learning on it, I was kind of star struck.
You still can find big execs that control billions of dollars sitting in cubes next to engineers, planners, and admins at Intel. One of my favorite things about working here is how they don't even seem to know it is different. (Intel employee)