William Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington U.S.A. He was a middle kid and was the only boy besides his father, in his family. He is more commonly known as Bill Gates.
When he was in sixth grade, he wasn’t performing well in school, so his parents sent him to counseling. Gates thought his counselor was cool. He let him read books after each session. He got really into psychological theory.
Bill Gates also loved being challenged. “ As a student, I took notes with either hand, using my right hand when I was bored and wanted a small challenge.” One time, when he was at his church’s confirmation class, he was told to memorize the Sermon on the Mount. All the other kids struggled through the passage but Bill impressed his teacher by memorizing the whole thing on a car trip just because he wanted a challenge.
Gates was a master of business very early in life. He negotiated a contract with his sister to use her baseball glove whenever he wanted. He paid $5 dollars for the right and required his sister to sign a contract. Little did he know, this skill would make him a billionaire by age 31 and become the wealthiest american by age 38.
Gates was a congressional page in the summer of 1972. He and a friend bought 5,000 George S. McGovern- Thomas Eagleton campaign buttons for 5 cents each. After the campaign was over, the buttons became collectable and Gates and his friend sold the buttons for up to $25 dollars each.
Work and Contribution
Bill Gates invented Microsoft. Microsoft is a computer program thats is universally known and used on almost every computer in the world. In fact, about 90% of the world uses Microsoft on their computers. Bill Gates and some of his partners nearly changed computers forever...
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...mmed computers. I’m sure programming computers isn’t easy. He probably failed more times programming one computer than I have ever failed in my lifetime. He has inspired me to persevere.
He strived to be successful and he was. He and his buddies did what was fun to them. He didn’t care if people judged him or anything. He did what made him happy. I think everyone should follow in what he does. They don’t have to do computer stuff, they can do what makes them happy.
Works Cited
Gates, B., & Lowe, J. (1998). Bill Gates speaks: Insight from the world's greatest entrepreneur. New York: John Wiley.
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Gladwell frequently states that people are a product of the factors around them. One such factor is the amount of time a person dedicates towards a particular skill, craft, art, or activity, and the time required to be the best in a particular field is 10,000 hours. Bill Gates, having a net worth of approximately 90 billion dollars, is generally considered an epitome of success. Gladwell provides precise details about how Gates was able to become a pioneer. Gates gained a head start in the field of computing with access to “real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968 (Gladwell 51).” In addition, Gladwell explains that a crucial aspect of Gates’ success was that he attended Lakeside School, one of the only high schools in the late ‘60s which has access to a time-sharing terminal. Gates also came from a family that
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 ...
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Being the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates had already made millions of dollars while also becoming more and more famous for his work with computers. So it came as no surprise when he took over his father’s previous foundation called the William gates Foundation and renaming it the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in 1997. Quickly donations were made to many universities and colleges such as the University of Washington. They were awarded a donation of twelve million dollars. The Gates Foundation also contributed two million dollars to the Seattle Area YMCA, twenty million dollars to the Seattle Public Library, and one million dollars to the Tacoma Art Museum. The Gates also devised plans to improve public education as well as attacking global issues. Of course one knows that at one point in time technology was only available for the rich or in other words only the rich could obtain certain information or knowledge that the poor couldn’t. Bill and Malinda gates understood this so they created a second program called the Gates Library fou...
Steve Jobs started facing challenges throughout his whole life. At birth, he was put up for adoption which, although hard to embrace at first, would end up being one of the experiences that helped him to be so successful. When Steve was just six years old his neighbor found out he was adopted and teased him, which hurt him deeply. He told Steve his parents did not want him, which was the reason he was put up for adoption. He ran home to his adoptive parents who guaranteed him that he was special because they chose only him. From then on, Jobs had a sense of being special. Steve Jobs felt he was on a journey throughout his life. He often said, “The journey was the reward.” (“Jobs' Biography: Thoughts On Life, Death And Apple” 3). That journey involved realizing and resolving conflicts about his role in the world: why he was here and what it was about. Jobs advanced through his adolescent life strongly disliking the forced authority he must obey in a classroom. He resisted education to the maximum, but his unwillingness to continue on through college is what ironically led him to create the company, Apple, and direct it to become the 15th biggest company in the world (“The World’s Biggest Public Companies”). Through the practices of Zen Buddhism, Jobs became an effective leader as well as learned how to stand strong, and fight against upper authority from his early life to college to his firing from Apple’s board of directors
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
Everybody knows the success story of Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world. He dropped out of college because he felt that it wasn’t worth the time or money and founded
Bill Gates, as we all know, developed Microsoft and made billions of dollars…$76 billion-plus, to be exact! But it had nothing at all to do with a limitless pill. While Gates may have talked about finding an easier way to do things, building Microsoft was of course anything but easy. However, Gates did start off focusing on the smaller things. For example, by the age of 13 he already knew how to use a teletype block computer in the private prep school he attended. When he was 17 he had already mastered source code and began a business along with a friend.
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).
He had helped IBM with an operating system for their new personal computer coming out soon. “In order to meet the IBM deadline, Gates paid $50,000 for the rights to a rudimentary operating system called "Q-DOS" ("quick and dirty operating system") designed by a Seattle programmer. Gates and his team made some adjustments to the system and added some new features, renaming the result MS-DOS (after Microsoft)”(McGuire 1). Bill Gates had made his first operating system which was the kickstart to his new company called Microsoft. One problem he went through was when his amazing success brought him to court.
He was born with a long family history of business, politics and community services. His grand father was the vice president of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. Early in life it was obvious that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence and competitive spirits that helped the rest of his family rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially in math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment.
Mirick, J. (1996). William H. Gates III: before Microsoft. Retrieved January 26, 2007, from http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html#computing.
So here I present you the path that gave us the Bill Gates we have today. Firstly, Bill Gates was fortunate enough to be born in a fine and educated family, where his parents were an educator and a lawyer. He had the privilege to all the essential necessities, such as clothing, food, and water sources which many other kids do not have. More than that, his family was wealthy enough to buy him toys and games and other things which would be far too extravagant to others. These small things created a stronger foundation for Bill Gates’