How Bill Gates Has Changed the World Bill Gates born as William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1995. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Gates’s father was William H. Gates Sr, a legal scholar. His mother, Mary Maxwell Gates who was a school teacher. Gates has two sisters. His older sister is Kristianne and younger sister is Libby. Gates grew up in a strict household and his family was very close and loving. They were all very close and loved each other. Gates showed early signs of competitiveness when he was young and always wanted to be the best in whatever he did as he got older this helped him in life. Since Gates’s mother was a teacher she made sure he was constantly learning all he could. Bill Gates has changed the world, …show more content…
He spent multiple hours reading books such as the encyclopedia. Gates’s parents had concerns about him and not because he wasn’t doing good at school, but because he was doing great and seemed withdrawn and bored at times. His parents enrolled him into Lakeside School, Seattle's exclusive preparatory school. While at Lakeside he was challenged more, but still excelled in every course. Lakeside offered computer time for students and purchased a teletype terminal for them to use. Gates became extremely captivated with computers and spent free time experimenting with them. He said in an interview “I wrote my first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe. The computer I used was huge and cumbersome and slow and absolutely compelling.”(Lesinski 15) Gates made several different programs including one at 17 years old that he sold for $4,200. Gates eventually graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 and made 1590 out of 1600 on the college SAT …show more content…
In 1970 when they were both 15 years old, they created “Traf-O-Data” a program that watched traffic pattern in Washington. They both earned $20,000 each. This was the start of Gates becoming a businessman. Gates got into Harvard University in 1973 to pursue a career in law because of his parents. This obviously didn't work out. He was always spending more time in the computer labs than in class. Two years later in 1975 Gates dropped out of Harvard to create a business because he thought he could make more money. Gates and his friend Paul Allen created the name Micro-Soft. That was Microcomputer and Software mixed together. By the year 1979 Micro-soft now known as Microsoft was grossing around $2.5 million and Gates was 23 and the head of the company.
Gates in 1981 started developing software for IBM and Microsoft started booming. Gates staff went from around 20 people to 130 people and the revenue went from $2.5 million to $16 million. Gates was made the chairman of the board and president. His partner Paul Allen was named executive vice president. Gates later created MS-DOS which changed the world. Now we have Windows 10 that is based from MS-DOS. Almost anywhere you go these days there is a computer running Microsoft the software Gates
At just twenty years old, Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He is now the richest man in the world with over $85.2 billion to his name. So why did Microsoft end up being way more successful than any computer program like it? The answer is because of the free enterprise system, and competition. Gate's product was considered new and innovative at the time, which made customers want to try it out.
Bill Gates has had a mammoth effect not only in America, but also the world. Bill Gates is the man people credited for creating the success of Microsoft, and the Xbox gaming console. However, Forbes magazine says, “The world will remember Bill Gates”(Forbes). Yes, the world will remember Bill Gates not because he was the richest man in the world for 14 years straight (Forbes), but because of all his efforts overseas and how he encourages other wealthy people to share their money with the less fortunate. If we look just in our own houses we see the effects of Bill Gates, almost every computer has Microsoft word and PowerPoint. In this paper, we will talk about all the impact Bill Gates has had not only in America but also the world.
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 ...
“Computer themselves and software yet to be developed will revolutionize the way we learn we learn”(Jobs). Steve Jobs, co-founder, of Apple, lived up to his words and revolutionize modern technology. He is consider one of the greatest heroes and inventors the world has ever seen. Jobs was a man that wanted to change the world and make a difference, His intelligence, braveness, and perseverance empowered him to become the successful businessman he was.
Steve jobs changed the world by creating Apple, inc, that made products that were revolutnary for there time period. He won several awards for his inventions, he died of pancreatic cancer. Steve jobs was the co-founder of apple with Stephen Wozniak. Steve jobs got fired from apple in 1984. He then started a new business called NeXT computer that made special computers for education and businesses. NeXT computers failed so he bought Pixar in 1986. Steve jobs created the ipad that came out in 2010 it is a cross between a iMac and a Iphone.
Bill Gates has not only changed America, but he has impacted the world on a vast level no one else has. As a genius in his own field of technology, Bill Gates used his intelligence to form a super tech company named Microsoft that most computers in the world can not get by without. He was once the richest man in the world because he did made the largest tech company the world has seen. Bill Gates is not one of the most influential people of the century just because he made Microsoft, it was more because he tirelessly tried to make the world a better place. Of all the money he has made in his lifetime, he used an abundant amount of it to help people in different situations.
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).
The company was founded in 1975 by William Henry Gates III -- currently the chairman of Microsoft and the wealthiest man in the world -- when he called the makers of a new microcomputer, MITS, and asked to demonstrate the BASIC programming language for the system. After the demonstration, MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC so Bill Gates left Harvard University, moved to where MITS was located, and founded Microsoft in ...
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).
Bill Gates was a poor nerdy guy and switched to the richest person ever. He was a very curious and academic boy who actually attended the private school, Lakeside School. In his adult life he was accepted into Harvard, thinking he wanted to be a lawyer, but instead found he loved the computer and wanted to spend time with that. One of his greatest achievements, even though he hasn’t met all the expectations he had set before, is that he created Microsoft, one of the biggest corporations in the world. Bill Gates is one of the most historic and smartest computer nerds out there and it especially shows up in his early life.
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
He also became an excellent reader and was soon reading long reference books and encyclopedias. Eventually, he became uninterested in his life because school was too easy for him. At the age of thirteen, his parents enrolled him in Lakeside school in Seattle (Bill. Biography). Bio.com calls Lakeside School “An Exclusive Preparatory School (Bill.... ... middle of paper ... ...
With his unique love for technology, Steve Jobs changed the world with his revolutionary innovations, developments, and extremely successful companies. He made communication faster, people’s lives easier, and invented many famous products. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California (Ed. Sheila Dow and Jaime E. Noce). Throughout his high school career, Jobs loved electronics. He was constantly wiring the house with speakers or building frequency counters with his Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of students who met weekly to learn about what HP was working on. One day the club members took a trip to see firsthand at what HP was developing at the time. That was the day Jobs saw his very first desktop computer (Walter Isaacson 16-17).
It was at Lakeside that he was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968 the Lakeside Prep School concluded that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. They were still too large and costly for the school to purchase it's own, so instead they had a fund raiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. But they had drastically underestimated the amount of students that would be addicted to this machine.
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...