I am writing a biography on the life of Bill Gates, the reason I am doing this is because I had too, most importantly why I’m writing this is to talk about his success and how he did it. My goal in this writing is to tell you how became so successful, how he did it, and how he was as a kid (like what he did as a kid, what he liked to do).
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates began to show interest in computers at the age of 13 at the Lakeside Private School. He pursued his passion thought college. Going out on his own with his friend and business partner Paul Allen, Gates found himself at the right place at the right time. While technology was advancing, he built the world’s largest software business, Microsoft. While doing so… he became the world’s richest man.
Gates grew up in an upper middle-class family, he had two sisters (Kristianne, who is older, and Libby who is younger). His father, William H. Gates, was a law student when he met his future wife, Mary Maxwell. She was athletic, outgoing and she studied at the University of Washington. Their family were close, they were also very competitive. They hosted family athletic games at their summer house on Puget Sound, when Gates first hosted it he was young, and that’s how his
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Around the age of 11 or 12, Bills behavior changed and his parents began to have concerns about his behavior. They thought he would become a loner. Once Gates turned 13, they enrolled him at Seattle’s Lakeside School (Prep School). He did good in nearly all of his subjects, very well in math and science, but also very good in drama and English. Soon a computer company in Seattle offered the school computers. He was fascinated by what a computer could do, he would spend all his free time using it. Soon he met Paul Allen (soon to be his business
Bill Gates (William Henry Gates III) was “brought” to this world on October 28, 1955 in the “lands” of Seattle, Washington. He growed up in an upper-class family with his two sisters: Kristianne and Libby Gates. His father, William H. Gates Sr., was a shy and promising law student when he met his “future” wife, Mary Maxwell, who was an ongoing student as an athletic in the University of Washington. Mary, at the time, was actively involved in student affairs and leadership. His families atmosphere is very warm and close and all of the three children, including Bill himself, were all promoted to be competitive and academically intelligent by their parents. However, Bill showed early signs of “competitiveness” whenever he plans to play board games, such as Monopoly and Risk, with the family at their summer house located in Puget Sound. In his childhood, Bill had a very close relationship with his mother since she would often take
After Gates graduated high school, with a perfect 800 on the SAT, he went to Harvard law school in 1973 (“Gates, Bill” 2) (“Gates, William Henry, III” 1). In 1975 his friend Paul Allen came up to him while Bill was in college and showed him a Popular Mechanics article about a $350 microcomputer, Gates read this article and was convinced that he wanted to be in the computer industry (“Gates, William Henry, III” 1). As a sophomore in college he and Paul Allen made the computer language BASIC compatible to microcomputers, this took much skill and he was the first to do it (Leaders of info 2). He did this for a company called MITS (Leaders of info 2). This shows his motivation to do well in the world, and to be successful. With this new success in the BASIC software, he dropped out of Harvard and went to pursue his new career (“Gates, Bill 1). He went to Albuquerque, New Mexico with Paul and they both founded a new company called Microsoft to mass produce their new software (Leaders of Info 2).
Gates was born in 1950, and raised in Piedmont, West Virginia, by his father, Henry Louis Sr. and his mother Pauline Coleman Gates. His father worked at the local Westvaco paper mill during the day and worked nights as a janitor for a local telephone company in order to support his family. Gates ' mother, was a house cleaner and worked hard to raise her sons to live and excel in an integrated world so that they
At 17, he received an offer to writing software package in the distribution of the energy Bonneville Dam. Following the family tradition, Bill Gates went to Harvard, intending to become a lawyer like his father. But he was still the same closed and uncommunicative, which is absolutely not appropriate for the profession. He rarely attended student parties, only his close friend Steve Ballmer, who will become president of Microsoft.
Bill Gates first took an interest in computer programming when he was 13 years old, while attending school. The school used funds from sales and donations and was able to purchase the students an ASR-33 Teletype terminal and computer time on a General Electric computer terminal. Bill, instantly intrigued, was able to get excused from his regular classes to work with the computer. Bill, then, gained his interest in computer programming. He was able to develop a program where the students could play the computer in a game of tic-tac-toe. This was the beginning of Bill Gates career (Bill Gates, 2011).
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. William was the middle child of William H. Gates II, a very successful lawyer in Seattle, and Mary Gates, his mother, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. William had two siblings, A older sister, Kristi, and a younger sister, Libby. William loved to play games and was pretty competitive at most everything he did. William was a very intelligent child and made outstanding grades in elementary school, especially in math. William got very bored and distracted very easily and tended to get into some trouble. Williams parents kept him occupied by signing him up for activities like boy scouts and reading science fiction books. At the age of thirteen, Williams parents
Bill Gates grew up in a wealthy area in Seattle, Washington, with his parents and two sisters. As the son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher, Gates attended a public school and then went to the Lakeside School, a private college prep institute. During his years at Lakeside School Gates became interested in the field of computer programming, he
At 59 years old, he wears glasses, and has wrinkles around the cheeks, eyes, and mouth. He has white and hazel brown hair with light blue eyes. Gates is extremely intelligent, and got a 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT, and got accepted into Harvard University. He is also a risk taker. IBM took Gates and Microsoft to court, but IBM being of the most successful technological companies at the time, lost the case. He has also donated to multiple foundations that were trying to help find a cure for deadly diseases. He didn’t know whether or not they would actually find a cure for the disease, but he took the risk of donating and did it. Determination was also a very big factor in Bill Gates’ life. Every time Gates took up something, whether it was decoding a program or coding a new operating system, he finished it. He didn’t give up and quit right in the middle of working on a project, he persisted and accomplished his task. For example, when Bill Gates and Paul Allen just founded Microsoft, they had hard times, but they were determined to make Microsoft a big and successful company, and they succeeded. All of these characteristics lead to his success to become the richest man in the
Bill Gates "The king of Software" is the cofounder of Microsoft Corporation, which is the largest computer software company. Gates is an American business executive officer of Microsoft. He was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. Bill grew up with his older sister Kristianne and younger sister Libby. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr. who was an attorney and former schoolteacher. Bill had a very close relationship with his mother. His mother was a teacher that loved her job and truly believed that education was very important so she took her job serious. She loved children and worked on civic affairs with charities. Bill, born as William Henry Gates III grew up in an upper Middle- class, Bill was a
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He is one of the world's richest people and perhaps the most successful businessman ever. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft and turned it into the world’s largest software company. He is the best-known entrepreneur of the PC revolution. He has also written two best-selling books and started his own charity with his wife.
(1) William Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates’ father was a lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bancsystem and the United Way. Gates had an older sister and a younger sister, the older sister was Kristianne and his younger sister was Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but he was really known as William Gates III. His family encouraged competition very much, but no matter what, there was always a reward for winning and losing.
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou at Harvard, with whom he collaborated on a paper about algorithms. He did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school 's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen, his school friend, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
Bill Gates is not only a genius, but also an innovator in education, technology, and philanthropy. A prodigy, Bill Gates shares an education fact with Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and even his competitor Steve Jobs: no college degree. Instead, he devoted his time to his passion for technology, going on to create the most profitable technology company in the world. For much of the past decade, Gates allocated both his profit and attention to philanthropy. Evidence of his innovation, industry and curiosity can be seen at an early age.
William Henry “Bill” Gates III, was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, to a wealthy family (Heller 6). His parents were William H. Gates III, a prominent attorney, and Mary, a school teacher (William Henry (Bill) Gates). Because Gates and his father had the same name his parents nicknamed him “Trey,” referring to the III at the end of his full name. Gates struggled in public elementary school, so his parent enrolled him in private Lakeside School. There, he was
Bill Gates came from a very involved background dealing with politics and in the business industry. So he was pretty educated in the world as a young child. He also spent most of his time reading and learning about Business Industry which is what he liked.