Bill Gates Essay

What do you do when you go home from school? If you don’t work or go to an extracurricular activity, you most likely eat a snack and start surfing the web on your laptop, desktop, tablet or smartphone. Have you ever stopped to think about the technology inside those devices? The intricate hardware components like the CPU, GPU, or hard drive. Or even more importantly, how the software and hardware go hand-in-hand. Without software, you’re device would just be an expensive paper weight. Although you may not think hardware, software or technology is a big deal, it has changed the America. Bill Gates is the founding father of software and through his early career, the rise of Microsoft, and his philanthropic efforts, he has changed America.

William (Bill) H. Gates was born on October 28th 1955. At the age of 13, Gates began to show an interest in computer programming. Through fierce business strategies, technological innovation, and business partner Paul Allen, the world’s largest software company, Microsoft, was created. In the process, Bill became one of the richest men in the world. In addition to starting Microsoft, Gates is an active philanthropist starting the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in 1994. On June 27th 2008, Gates stepped down from day-to-day roles of Microsoft to spend more time on his global health and education efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates was raised in an upper middle-class family with two sisters; Kristianne, who is older and Libby, who is younger. William H Gates, their father, was a promising law student when he met their mother, Mary Maxwell. The atmosphere in the Gates household was warm and close, and the children were encouraged to strive for excellence while being com...

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...million of Microsoft’s $520 million. Gates became a billionaire in 1987, when the stock was raised to $90.75 a share. Ever since then, Gates has been near or at top of Forbes annual list of top 400 wealthiest people in America. With the stock prices at an all-time high in 1999, Gates’ wealth topped at $101billion.

Gates never felt totally secure about his companies status. Always looking over the shoulders of his competition to see where they were at. He developed a competitive spirit that was described as a white hot flam. Gates expected everyone in the company to have the same dedication and drive as he had. “One story goes that one of Gates’ assistants had come to work early to find someone sleeping under a desk. She considered calling security or the police when she discovered it was Gates.”

Bill began gaining a slow reputation as a ruthless leader.