Bill Gates is now one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, but he did not earn his fortune in a straight line to success. Before launching Microsoft, Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout. Gates entered the entrepreneurial scene with a company called Traf-O-Data, which aimed to process and analyze data from traffic tapes in Seattle. Although when he attempted to sell the idea alongside his business partner, Paul Allen. The product barley worked, it was a complete disaster. Nevertheless, Gates prevailed through his failure driven by his passion for computer programming. Microsoft went public in 1986, “Gates amassed a huge paper fortune as the company’s largest individual shareholder. He became a paper billionaire in 1986” according to editors of Britannica…
In Mr. Gates early life, he was born as William Henry “Bill” Gates III on October 28, 1955. Mr. Gates was born in a wealthy family, his father was a lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Banc System and the United Way, he also has two sisters. Mr. Gates was very well educated, at the age of 13 he wrote his first software program on the school’s computer and by the time he was in high school he, along with some of his friends, had computerized their school’s payroll system. Mr. Gates graduated from high school in 1973. He was a National Merit Scholar and scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT. He enrolled at Harvard College later that same year. Throughout college Bill spent most of his time on computers and was not interested in studying other subjects. His friend suggested that Bill should drop out of college to start his own business. In Mr. Gates Adult life, he collaborated to found Microsoft in 1975 It was proved to be a success and he continued to develop programming language software for various systems. In the mid 1990’s when the use of the internet spread throughout the globe, Gates focused Microsoft on the development of consumer and enterprise software solution for the internet. In January 2000, Gates had stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft though he retained his position as chairman. Mr. Gates impacted Society in a positive way, because almost every computer has Microsoft as their computer system. Many companies’ around the world rely on Microsoft programs. His foundation has helped lots of poverty families around the world by improving their health and education…
Coming from a wealthy background, Bill Gates went to private school where a portion of the institution's funding went to a new computer terminal. However, Gates did not “learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s [,and instead] he got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader” (Gladwell 51). The upper hand that Gates had with this privilege, eventually gave him the chance to work at Information Sciences Inc, ISI. There he spent “1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages[d] out to eight hours a day, seven days a week” (Gladwell 52). This ample amount of time to practice and perfect his craft gave him the extra boost to become exceptional at programming leading to the creation of Microsoft.…
“Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed…
Without a society integrated with technology, communication and productivity would be hindered not only on a person level, but a global and commercial scale. Bill Gates, an American entrepreneur, found success from being the co-founder of Microsoft and designing and developing software for the Personal Computer (How to be a Billionaire). William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His father, being a Seattle attorney and his mother being a schoolteacher helped him achieve his brilliant state. In middle school, Gates developed an interest in computer science, a path which allowed him to explicate the smarts he obtained in the form of technology. Although many may argue that such technology is forcing us to take a step backwards in our social interactions, Bill Gates, the 20th century ambitious revolutionist, contrived the software that aided society to prosper.…
Some of the opportunities Bill Gates was given were his “free computer time at the University of Washington”(Gladwell, 2008) and also previous to that his mother along with others “had enough money to pay for his high school Lakesides computer fees”(Gladwell, 2008). Without the circumstance of Bill Gates receiving free computer time, chances are he wouldn’t have been nearly as intelligent and innovative with computers as he is today. To reiterate Malcolm Gladwell’s argument about super achievers are successful because of their families, in Bill Gates…
Bill Gates is one of the most famous and popular thinkers in the world, by his creation of Microsoft. Bill gates is also number two richest man in the world, number one in the United States, and number four most powerful man in the world (Forbes, 2013). Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 and by the 1980s he became the leading computer software manufacturer (Oxford, 2012). Microsoft is a software program used by almost every computer in the world.…
Bill Gates is known as one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world. He is responsible for creating the largest computer and technology business in the world, Microsoft. In the company's early days, no one would have thought that it would change both America and the world from that point on. Gates and his company have created both computers and software that has revolutionized everything in America and the world. What is more amazing is the company continues to grow and revolutionize the ways in which Americans live out their lives. Most importantly, Gates makes people comfortable with his software by making it operate easier and more enjoyable. Bill Gates is living the American dream.…
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington October 28, 1955. His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father was a Lawyer. Gates had two sisters, and was spoiled as a child in a wealthy household. He was sent to a school by the name of Lakeside, here is where he began to show his interest in computer technology. At the age of thirteen, Gates violated school rules by creating his first software, a tic-tac-toe game, during “computer time” in class. In his attendance at lakeside, he built up a bad reputation by disregarding the rules and although he was socially awkward, and extremely opinionated, he managed to find a friend who shared the same interests in computer technology, Paul Allen. Allen became great friends with Gates, and in 1971 he even co-created their first company called TRAF-O-DATA. Their Company “specialized in monitoring and analyzing traffic statistics in cities and countries”(Berbagi). Their company did well and made $20,00 the first year, but then quickly fell due to customers discovering his age of 17. Gates soon graduated from Lakeside in 1973, with a surplus of knowledge. It is rumored that he scored a 1590 out of 1600 points on his SAT (Leaders of the information age). In later months, Bill Gates attended Harvard University with Allen, and began a programming language called BASIC. However, this…
Bill Gates began using the word Microsoft in November of 1975. He was a Freshman student at Harvard University when he and Paul Allen, A childhood friend, developed a BASIC interpreter for what was believed to be the worlds first microcomputer called the Altair 8800. Basic was the first language written for a PC. (http://www.csl.mtu.edu/winter98cs320/micro/history/)…
Gates would work day and night, seven days a week. There were times he didn’t even shower. He would personally read every line of code in each product he sold. Gates trusted the process during this whole time. As the story goes, Microsoft became the multi-billion dollar company it is today.…
From a functionalist perspective Bill Gates served as a purpose in life developing Microsoft to help out people with their businesses and person life. A functionalist would believe that society would depend on Microsoft and that is why it would have needed to be created. I believe highly that Bill Gates was mostly a functionalist. From a conflict perspective Bill Gates would have looked at the pros and cons of his software. In this situation the pros outweighed the cons and he developed Microsoft, which is one of the most successful software’s ever created. He also would have thought how if he created this software what he would have gained from the software such as wealth. The conflict perspective is why he went from a middle-class citizen to the top of the stratification system. From a symbolic interactionist perspective would have had to of thought of the values and important of the software to the society. Bill Gates also probably though of the way society was ran at the time without computers and thought that the Microsoft program would help society out by organizing life such as businesses and personal life by letting them do many possible things with this software. Each theory has its own social stratification. A functionalist theory is everyone having his or her place of purpose in society. The conflict theory is the have or have-nots of the situation and the interactionist theory focuses on the values of society. All theories can support a concept but are all different stratifications of society. A person moving from wealth from a functionalist perspective would identify their purpose in society and make it clear to themselves how its going to be okay to live in the society as a lower-class person. From a conflict perspective a person would have to see all the good things that they possibly can if they are going to be a lower-class person of society. They would also need to come up with the bad things that may happen to them…
Bill Gates was an individual who changed technology and he made it easy for people to live their lives and work. Bill Gates was born in 1955 on October 28 and he was a very argumentative child. When Bill was just 13 he started working on code. He was banned from his school's computers for the rest of the year because he hacked into companies and changed their work. Bill dropped out of harvard to fulfill his dream to make his own company.…
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates was born into a very intellectual and well educated family. Throughout the book, we receive an impression of him as a very curious person who always seeks for new knowledge. At the age of eight or nine, he began to read his family’s encyclopaedia and his interest in technology at a very young age is one of the reasons why his career is so interesting. Not many young people at that age would be interested in technology. At the age of thirteen Bill Gates formed the Lakeside Programmers Group with his computer friends, which shows his love and passion for technology.…
Bill gates was born in Seattle, WA on October 28, 1955. Gates went to Harvard College in 1973 and study computer. When he was younger his mother made him go to a private school name lakeside school, his mother name is Mary Maxwell Gates, his father name is William H. Gates Sr. Gates only had two sister and their names was Libby Gates and Kristi Gates . Gates married Melinda French in January 1, 1994 and had three children’s.…