Bill Gates
Uploaded by schroedez on Jun 02, 2001
New Learning – “A Life Worth Knowing About”William Henry Gates, also known as “Bill”, has established himself as the richest man in the world. He is the youngest self made billionaire, and perhaps the best businessman in the world. As you read along, you will learn what Bill Gates’ accomplishments were, what his beliefs were, and why this topic is so important. Bill Gates is important because not only did he change the computer technology in America, he also became the biggest, strongest, richest and the most powerful company in the world.
Bill, was born October 28, 1955, his parents, Mary and Bill Jr., have one other daughter, a daughter, Kristi. His father, Bill Gates Jr. was born in Bremerton, Washington. He was accepted on the University of Washington. After he had taken the education of being a lawyer, he went back to Bremerton and became assistant for the district attorney. His mother, Mary Maxwell, was born in 1929 - Seattle, Washington, grew up between prominent families, in the northeast of the US. She became a teacher. Gates began his career in PC software, programming computers at age 13.
In education, he attended a well-known private school in Seattle, Washington called Lakeside. At Lakeside, he met his future business partner Paul Allen. Bill Gates entered Harvard in 1973. He created the programming language BASIC. Gates attended Harvard University as a freshman. After a few years, Gates and his business partner Paul Allen dropped out of Harvard to begin the Microsoft Corp. in 1975.
Throughout his life, Gates had many experiences with business. Allen and Gates started a small company called Traf-O-Data. They sold a small computer outfitted with their program that could count traffic for the city. Gates also worked as a Congressional Page and at a programming company called 'TRW'. After all his minor jobs, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975, the largest computer based company in the world. Gates is the Chief Executive officer and Paul Allen is VP. They are both very wealthy due to this business.
Microsoft's wealth and power just grew and grew. Microsoft became so rich that could buy out an entire years production of his 99 nearest competitors, burn it, and still be worth more than Hugh Hefner and Michael Jordan. Microsoft's $25 billion market value tops that of Ford, General Motors, 3M, Boeing, General Mills, or Anheuser-Busch.
With size comes power....