approximately $77 billion. He’s also created more millionaires than anyone in the history of business‚ both directly through stock options ($10‚000 invested in his company’s IPO is worth $4.8 million today‚ the most successful stock of the century) and indirectly by making computers part of daily life. When it came time for us to pick the "Entrepreneur of the Millennium‚" no one else even came close to William Henry Gates III‚ founder‚ chairman and CEO of Redmond‚ Washington-based Microsoft Corp. Although
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Skinny‚ shy and awkward‚ teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving parents. His father‚ powerfully built and 6’6’’ tall‚ was a prominent Seattle attorney‚ and his gregarious mother served on charitable boards and ran the United Way. While he showed enormous talent for math and logic‚ young Bill‚ a middle child‚ was no one’s idea of a natural leader‚ let alone a future billionaire who would reinvent American business. Born in 1955‚ Gates attended public elementary school
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Kathryn Dorr Eng. 122 September 9‚ 2013 Robot in Every Home Bill Gates‚ Co-founder of Microsoft has another dream similar to the one he had 50 years ago. His dream back then was to put a computer in every household in America. Back then‚ this never before seen industry that can change the world had a very foggy future and it had a long way before anything really significant happened. It was the computer industry and 30 years ago B. Gates and P. Allen were working on foundation for the information
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Bill Gates: Biography William H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation‚ the leading provider‚ worldwide‚ of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996‚ and employs more than 20‚000 people in 48 countries. Born on October 28‚ 1955‚ Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father‚ William H. Gates II
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As the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft‚ Bill Gates has played a prominent role in launching the Information Age. In his book titled Business @ The Speed Of Thought’‚ he stresses upon how the expanding technology is propelling the business world into a new exciting economic era. This book in particular‚ deals with what is known as a Digital Nervous System’ (DNS). A DNS‚ in short‚ is the corporate‚ digital equivalent of the human nervous system‚ providing a well-integrated flow of information
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they called it opportunity. Rule 6: If you mess up‚ it’s not your parents’ fault‚ so don’t whine about your mistakes‚ learn from them. Rule 7: Before you were born‚ your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills‚ cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation‚ try delousing the closet in your own room. Rule 8: Your school may have done
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Bill Gates‚ a man of his time‚ has given numerous donations as well as creating foundations to benefits equaling to a Captain of Industry. However‚ Bill Gates is a Robber Baron in more areas compared to that of a Captain of Industry. The steps and actions in which it took Bill Gates to get where he is makes him a Robber Baron. Despite his more than gracious donations and foundation gains‚ Gates still took and held a reputation that was overbearing and aggressive (Biography). The business model Bill
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MGMT 368 CASE ANALYSIS EXAMPLE C THE CASE OF BILL GATES MGMT 368B BUSINESS ETHICS PROBLEM ISSUE AND IDENTIFICATION WHAT ARE THE CENTRAL FACTS OF THE CASE? *William Bill’ Gates III‚ Microsoft Corp Chairman‚ is the most wealthiest businessman there is (http://www.reviewjournal.com/1vrg_home/1997/Apr-02-Wed-1997/news/5134242.html). *Microsoft does not pay its workers as well as some competitors do; however‚ many workers get stock options. As a result‚ the worth of these stock options
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Des Dearlove Doing Business the Bill Gates Way 1. Explain what you think is interesting about Bill Gates and his career. 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
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REPORT‚ BILL GATES 1. Mini Biography Bill Gates is known for his company Microsoft‚ his participation in the computer revolution‚ and for being the youngest self-made billionaire in history. In 1986‚ he launched Microsoft Windows‚ a program that is one of the most used operating systems in the world. Many of today’s adult‚ and perhaps in particular today’s young adults‚ remember the exciting introduction of personal computers using Microsoft software. Childhood William (Bill) H. Gates was
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