Bill Gates: The Richest Man In The World

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Becoming the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is one of the most influential men. Not only is Bill Gates one of the most influential figures in the world, but he is also one of the most influential figures in the business world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates was born into already well established family. “His father, William Henry Gates Jr., was a successful lawyer, and his mother, Mary Maxwell, was chairwoman of United Way International.”(Stevenson).
His fortunate life started after Gates enrolled in the Lakeside Preparatory School at the age of twelve. “At the age of thirteen Gates began writing his first computer programs and that is when he became friends with Paul Allen.”(Stevenson). While attending Lakeside, Gates and Allen received unlimited use of the facility 's machines like the use of schools computers. The school would let Gates write the schools program for scheduling students in classes and he would take advantage of that to have the people he wanted to be in his classes. In 1972, after graduating from Lakeside, Bill Gates attended Harvard College. Originally Gates was expected to study law …show more content…

This was the same year when Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. In 1981, Bill Gates’ company was hired to develop an operating system but rather than creating a new operating system they decided to buy a preexisting operation system called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for the amount of 50,000 dollars. After modifying the operating system they bought, they renamed the operating system to MS-DOS. After MS-DOS began selling it brought in a steady income for Gates due to the fact that the PC market was growing and there weren’t many competitors in the market for them to compete with. In 1986, when Microsoft Corporation went public, it made Gates into a millionaire overnight. The following year, Microsoft released their first ever version of

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