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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Millennium‚" no one else even came close to William Henry Gates III‚ founder‚ chairman and CEO of Redmond‚ Washington-based Microsoft Corp. Although he arouses as much animosity as admiration for his hardball tactics (there’s even a book about his mortal enemies: Gary Rivlin’s The Plot to Get Bill Gates‚ Times Books)‚ everyone‚ friend or foe recognizes Gates as the rightful Usher-in-Chief of the Information Age. It all started when‚ at age 25‚ Gates persuaded IBM to let him keep the rights to the DOS
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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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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: Before Microsoft From his first business venture through his multi-billion dollar deals‚ Bill Gates has always been a ferocious and keen businessman. Bill Gates first started tinkering with computers when his high school‚ Lakeside Prep‚ wanted to acquaint its students with computers. In 1968 the school held a fund raiser to buy computer time on a DEC PDP-10 computer that was owned by General Electric. Lakeside was able to raise enough money for what they thought would be ample
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society sees it today. B. Any Idea can be great; implementation of that idea takes careful planning and a smooth technological framework to seamlessly pull it off. C. Choosing to eschew the established ways most seek out their lives‚ Bill Gates chose to cultivate his interests‚ even by getting in trouble with a corporation at a young age while capitalizing on an error in a system‚ and pivot these ideas into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. D. An active dedicated mind that sees
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Profile of Bill Gates Profiles of Global Leaders July 14‚ 2010 Abstract This paper will outline a profile of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I will provide background information about his upbringing‚ his early exposure to computers‚ and his founding of Microsoft. I will then detail his unique leadership skills which have allowed him to take his company from a small upstart to a global icon. Childhood William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle‚ Washington to a middle class
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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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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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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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