How Did Bill Gates Change The World

Bill Gates Bill Gates is one of the most successful businessmen of all time. He created a billion dollar industry that has changed the way people use technology. Him and his wife donate large amounts of money to charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through his efforts to make one of the biggest internet companies in the world, Bill Gates inspired others to build off his invention and create more beneficial technological things\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Bill Gates was born on October 28 1955. He was born in Seattle, Washington. Bill began showing an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 at Lakeside High School. He was excused from math classes and went on to pursue his interest
Gates went to Harvard for a year and then later transferred to Honeywell where Paul Allen was attending college. A new computer system came out called the MITS Altair 8800. Gates and Allen used this as an opportunity to start their own computer software company called Microsoft. Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft in 1975. They believed computers would be beneficial at homes and in work offices. Therefore, they began developing a software for personal computers. This BASIC software they created was popular with computer hobbyists. The computer hobbyists were distributing the software to their friends and many more people. Gates found out that only ten percent of people who have the network actually paid for it. Gates saw this distribution as stealing. In February of 1976, he wrote a letter to computer hobbyists saying that if the software keeps getting distributed, he would shut it down and no one could use it. Microsoft started writing software for other companies in different formats. With Gates only having 25 employees, it was a struggle. He moved his company to a city close to Seattle so he felt more at home. He placed himself as the head of Microsoft. Microsoft was worth about $2.5 million in
The charity is called the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They work with thousands of partners in Africa, India, Europe, etc. The foundation stresses how all lives are equal. Their goal is to find solution for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. The Gates family donates and raises money for these people who are poor. They have helped many people in Asia by building homeless shelters. They build food pantries for these people as well. The foundation started in 2010 and has been up and running ever since. Both Bill and Melinda learned that millions of children need medical treatments. The foundation then started supporting foundations who were saving lives around the world. In 2011, Gates and other foundations pledged $4.3 billion to support the GAVI Alliance, working to develop and distribute vaccines to the poorest countries. IN 2012, Gates attended an UN General Assembly meeting. The meeting helped Gates’ foundation join global partners to make a blueprint to eradicate polio forever. The meeting had 3 key partners that attended. Heads of state from Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan which were the last three countries fighting polio. Bill Gates and his wife have given twenty-four billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This foundation focuses on global health and copulation control programs. It has helped Africa with the AIDS spread and