Bill Gates and Microsoft
Just past 9 PM on
October 28, 1955, the man who would revolutionize the
computer industry as we know it, was born. The son of Bill Jr.
and Mary Gates was named William Henry Gates III. The
computer super-genius was soon to take his place in history.
Within the last fifteen years the company that he and Paul
Allan started, Microsoft, has become the largest software
corporation in the computer industry. What is Bill Gates’
background, and how did he preserve his place in history
while amassing his fortune? Bill Gates grew up in a typical
wealthy family. His father, Bill Gates Jr., was a lawyer in
Seattle, Washington. His mother was a socialite housewife
and occasional teacher. Growing up, Bill Gates’ nickname
was "Trey." This nickname was indicative of the III after his
name. This nickname has stayed with him throughout his life
to date (Wallace and Erikson 10). Bill also grew up as a
middle child between his two sisters. His older sister is named
Kirsti, and his younger sister’s name is Libby (Sihvonen 3).
Bill Gates attended Lakeside School (an expensive private
school in Seattle) as a child. Bill Gates was first introduced to
computers as a student at Lakeside School. A company called
Computer Center Corporation (referred to as "C-cubed" by Bill
Gates) leased computers from Digital Equipment Corporation.
In 1968, the board of Lakeside School decided to provide a
computer (a GE PDP-10 connected via Teletype at the
school), and computer time for their students (Wallace and
Erikson 26). Almost instantly, Bill and a handful of fellow
students were addicted to the new computer. Within a year,
Bill Gates, Paul Allan, and two other students of Lakeside
School formed the Lakeside Programmer’s Group. At the age
of 13, Bill Gates had already constructed an application
(program) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, the Lakeside
Programmer’s Group developed an application called
Traf-O-Data. This was a program that would calculate the
number of cars traveling down a road, and would give the
best timing for a stop light. C-cubed used Gates and his
friends to try and hack items, but Gates was often scolded for
hacking too much. Unfortunately, in 1970, C-cubed went out
Bill Gates had more opportunities than most kids at the age of 16. “I was very lucky,” Bill Gates said at beginning of interview (55). He knows that if he wasn’t given the type of opportunities he was, then he wouldn’t have been the successful business owner he is today. Gates lived on the computers, he was obsessed, he spent every waking hour on the computer. Through his hard work he created a very successful computer program, that is on every computer all over. He started his obsession in high school. If he didn’t attend lakeside, he wouldn’t of have had such a interest. Bill Gates is a leader and the everyone knows
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Bill Gates, the younger of the two was 15, born in Washington to two relatively successful parents Bill H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxell Gates. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors at two major companies. At an early age Bill showed signs of great leadership qualities and later proved these true, he excelled in school and always brought a competitive fire to everything which usually was mistaken for anger and stubbornness.Bill was considered a genius; He made a 1590 on his SAT, devised an algorithm for pancake sorting for unsolved problems that was published and applied to modern formulas, and later Bill enrolled in Harvard. Bill graduated in 1973 and was off to Harvard. While at Harvard, Gates majored in law, with plans in following his dad’s ...
Bill Gates is a genius. He is the founder of Windows and is one of the richest people in the world. He created some of the first computer operating systems and is a pioneer of the technological world. He has created a computing empire and is still working to improve the world. He not only is rich but he also donates a lot to charity.
Steve Jobs- Stanford Commencement Speech It has been nine years since Steve Jobs gave his famous Stanford Commencement speech but the message of “Stay hungry, stay foolish” is still being talked about today. During the speech he uses a conversational style of speaking to tell three stories on love, life, discovery and death. Jobs used his personal experiences to connect with the audience, sharing several anecdotes from his past to convince the crowd that failure and rejection were not always bad things. By describing his life events, he made himself more relatable to the audience and was successful at delivering his message.
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William “Bill” H. Gates was born on born on October 28, 1955 to William Henry Gates, Jr. and the late Mary Gates at Seattle Washington’s Swedish Hospital. Gates is the second born of three children; Kristi is the first-born, she is a year older then Bill, and Libby, is the third born and is nine years younger. Bill follows in his ancestral lineage by being a successful executive.
On October 28, 1955 William H. Gates III (nicknamed "trey") was born in Seattle. His father was a lawyer (William H. Gates II) and his mother was a schoolteacher. He also had two older sisters who were in high school when Bill was born. Bill attended a public elementary school before he moved to a private school in North Seattle named Lakeside. Lakeside's strong academics enabled Bill to actively get involved with computers (which were the love of his life next to baseball) and use his superior intellect. This was the beginning of a long and successful career in computers. Bill combined his intellect and visions of technology along with his active participation in may charities to make our world a better place.
Steve Jobs (born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the 24th of February 1955) is best know as the co-founder & CEO of Apple Computer and somewhat less so for his leadership of Pixar which is a computer animation studio. On the other hand, Bill Gates (born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955) is married to Melinda French Gates and has three children. Bill Gates is the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. Both started their careers almost at the same time and within the same industry. They are without a doubt two of the most successful and wealthy men in the PC industry. Steve Jobs is a true creative thinker and technological leader while Bill Gates is the opportunity seeker. The competition and rivalry between Gates and Jobs has become one of the most enduring and fascinating in the American business industry. In the end both men are well-known and idolized by many.
Bill Gates He is the richest man in the world. His former friends, who are now
As a kid Bill Gates attended Lakeside School as a kid at the age of 13 he had a interest in computer programing, in the programing class he first created a tic-tac-toe program in basic computer language that allowed users to play against the computer. Later on Bill meet a friend Paul Allen who also had an interest in computer programing. They shared lots of free time together creating programs. In 1970 Bill Gates went in to business at the age of 15 him and Paul created Traf-o-Data, a computer program that monitored traffic patterns in Seattle, and netted $20,000 for their efforts him and
Bill was born on October 28th, 1955 his parents are William H. Gates Sr and Mary Maxwell Gates. Since he was a child he was interested in computers. “His education started at a local private school known for tough academic standards. When he was first introduced to computers he would skip class to work with the machine. After getting in trouble he gave up computers to focus on education for a year. He dropped out of harvard after his sophomore year because of his success with computers”(Mcguire 1). He was so interested in computers he dropped out of Harvard one of the best schools in America to pursue computers. Due to all of Gates knowledge on computers he was easily able to get a job “Gates' first professional job came soon after he and his computer friends wrote The Problem Report Book, a 300-page manual they compiled after going through the garbage bins of Seattle's Computer Center Corporation (CCC) and finding all the programmers' errors. CCC officials were so impressed with the boys that they gave them jobs”(Mcguire 1). Gates was easily able to get a job by just finding errors in a computer software because of how much he knew about computers. Bill Gates past knowledge of computers helped him become who he is
While Bill Gates was at junior high a group of parents raise money to purchase the first computerized terminal in the school. When that happened he decided to take all his time to work on that system teaming with other students to learn about different operating systems. He excelled in his learning of systems and he started developing ideas to make business with companies in order to learn how they make their terminals. His mind for busi...
"Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the cyber-tycoons. His is not simply a story of technical brilliance and enormous wealth; it is one of remarkable business vision and an obsessive desire to win. It is also about a leadership style that is radically different to anything the business world has seen before."
After completing their second year of college Gates and Allen had decided to make their own software company. They started out with Micro-Soft as the first name of the company but later took the hyphen. Gates had soon went back to school at harvard however he dropped out in 1977 before he graduated. On his time out he soon devoted himself to Microsoft and made it his full-time Job. This would help him find the problems and fix them. It would make the company a lot stronger and better. “In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, two young computer hobbyists from Palo Alto, California, unveiled the prototype for the Apple 1 computer. A local computer dealer saw the Apple 1 and ordered 100 pre-assembled units. Over the next 10 months, about 200 Apple 1’s were sold.” (Musolf).