No, his friend got the money ($20,000) as part of the Internment Camp Reparations legislation that was passed in 1988.
The US government did not issue the apology checks for the internees, especially for those who were born in the camps, until the 1980s. It took some time between for the government to agree that those born in the internment camps were even entitled to compensation equal to those who were rounded up and taken to the internment camps. My friend was born two weeks before they closed the camp. I recall when she called my now ex-wife to tell her the courts had ruled that it did not matter that she and the other children born in the camps had not actually suffered the indignity of being forced to relocate to internment camps, but they did have to live where they were not free, nor where their parents would have chosen for them to have been born, and they had been, in many instances denied their birthright.
Her parents had a small strawberry farm in Santa Barbara County taken from them because they were forced to go to a "concentration camp" near Cincinnati, Ohio, on just five days notice. The $50,000 they got did not come any where close to the millions it would have been worth today. Her parents got their checks several years before my friend got hers. They used it to pay off the mortgage on a small truck farm they had bought near Stockton, California, after being released from the camp.
Microsoft only went public on March 13, 1986, so no-one except Paul Allen and Bill Gates and a few insiders who were granted stock by the principals could own any shares of the company. My friend was friends with one of those insider's and was allowed to invest in the IPO, which is usually a restricted affair open to invited investors. She got invited to invest early on the opening day. Before that, she had the $25,000 in her savings account.