Bill Gates has been a CEO of Microsoft in the past and is currently a CEO of Cascade Investment. “Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world” (“Bill Gates Biography” par.1). He started without having anything and took a huge risk of starting the new business by himself. Bill Gates has worked very hard his entire life generating the Microsoft company. Furthermore, he also provided thousands of people with jobs. He was only in high school when he first started working and analyzing computers. To pursue his career further, he put his outstanding talents and intelligence with computers to use, and made himself a powerful entrepreneur. Gates expanded his success with Windows OS and developed other user-friendly software applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Besides the fact that Bill Gates was an active philanthropist, he was a founder of the Microsoft Corporation as well and this exemplifies that Bill Gates is, indeed, a Renaissance …show more content…
The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is helping children and adults all over the world to provide proper education and end world hunger and poverty. Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business and expanded his success with Windows OS and developed other software applications. Gates has made so many changes in our world technologically and made the world more computable. Bill Gates is clearly a modern Renaissance man because of his multitude of talents and actions, the most obvious being his active philanthropic actions, establishing the Microsoft Corporation, and lastly, being a successful computer programmer. Because of these marvelous qualities Bill Gates has, he is unquestionably a modern-day Renaissance