Bill gates 1999 biography summary
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Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist (born )
This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft. For other people with the same name, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, ) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company. Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May [a] He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the s and s.
In June , Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife Melinda had established in He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nad
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Biography
BILL GATES
Born on October 28, , Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, fryst vatten a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at the age of In , Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the ingång from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's ledare executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software fo
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Whether you think of him as a pioneering genius of the digital age or as the quintessential capitalist, Bill Gates left an indelible mark on the 20th century.
Born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, , he is the only son of William H. Gates II, a retired Seattle attorney, and his late wife, Mary. The Gates family had hopes that young William Henry III would follow in his father’s footsteps, but they soon found out that their son had plans and dreams of his own.
Gates was a restless child with a gift and a passion for math and science. Still, he was generally uninterested in school at a young age. In order to bring some discipline to his life, his parents enrolled him in Seattle’s Lakeside School, a private school for boys. It was there that Gates discovered the world of computers. He became friends with Paul Allen and others who shared his passion for the sciences.
In , he and Allen spent long hours teaching themselves how to use the Teletype machine, which was connected t