William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28‚ 1955)[4] is an American business magnate‚ investor‚ philanthropist‚ and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft‚ the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009‚ excluding 2008‚ when he was ranked third.[6] During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect‚ and remains
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On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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Bill Gates: Man of Magnitude A man of magnitude is someone who has made an impact on society and has done something or created something for the greater good of the country or world. I think what best describes a great man‚ or woman is a quote from Bob Marley‚ ““The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires‚ but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” This quote is close me because of the work my grandfather did with his business and providing work
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 by its namesake‚ Bill Gates‚ and his wife Melinda. The couple created the foundation “to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.”1 It is headquartered in Seattle‚ Washing and is co-chaired by Bill‚ Melinda and William Gates Sr. Since its founding the foundation has accrued an incredible $31.9 billion and has a net worth of almost $50 billion. With such spending power‚ the foundation has been able to make great
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Bill Gates: An Important Visionary For Better or Worse by Blake Noonan Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world‚ but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing‚ money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle‚ Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen‚ he wrote his first software program
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28th‚ 1955‚ a young boy born in Seattle named Bill Gates would change their life forever. When young Gates was growing up‚ he was already put off to a great head start. His family was very involved with business‚ politics‚ and community services which out Gates in a perfect environment for success. When he began school‚ every single one of his teachers would describe him as their smartest student they’ve ever had. Stories have even said that Gates would end up teaching the class instead of the
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American business executive‚ chairman and chief executive officer of the Microsoft Corporation‚ and a multibillionaire: Bill Gates. CAREER Gates‚ William Henry‚ III (1955- ) was born in Seattle‚ Washington. Gates grew up in a very competitive family. His father‚ William H. Gates II‚ was an attorney. His mother‚ Mary‚ was a University of Washington regent and director of First Interstate Bank. His parents placed him in Lakeside‚ an academic
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speech that’s a third of our grade‚ during every break I had. We all‚ including myself‚ procrastinate. We can all thank Bill Gates for making our times of procrastination slightly more bearable by creating the Microsoft software that is accessible‚ easy to use and constantly evolving to meet consumer needs. B. Thesis Statement: Today I am going to inform you about Bill Gates who invented Microsoft software and started what is now known as the largest computer software‚ according to Dina Bass
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work of Bill Gates is significant because his work changes the life of hundreds of thousands people in the United States. In the late 1990s and early 2000s‚ Bill and his wife Melinda gates started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that help with medical and educational causes (“Bill Gates”). Bill Gates are among the top Philanthropist in the world (Strouse). The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation became the largest in the world with assets of 21.8 Billion Dollars (Strouse). Bill Gates surpasses
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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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