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had concerns about him and not because he wasn’t doing good at school, but because he was doing great and seemed withdrawn and bored at times.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
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 ...
Gates’ passion for technology began at the age of 8, when he built his first computer program. This program allowed the player to compete in a game of tic tac toe against the system. From then on, Bill spent every ounce of his free time in the computer room. His father even said “Bill would sneak away in the middle of the night with Paul Allen, Bill’s best friend, to go to the computer room”. He programmed computers at age 13 which would eventually lead to founding the world’s largest software company. A...
In 1995, Bill Gates III first business was a fail. But for that to occur Gates began to show an interest in computer programming at a young age thirteen years old he attended elementary school later on middle school graduating from lakeside school. Later on prussing his career in the most at one of the most prestigious university Harvard.
William H. Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington. He is the middle child and only son to his parents William Jr. and Mary. He has two sisters, Kristi and Libby. As a child he enjoyed sports and cub scouts. His parents had a law career in mind for him, like his father, but he had an interest in computers early on. He began studying computers in the seventh grade at Seattle’s Lakeside School, which was a private school chosen by his parents in hopes of challenging his curiosity and intellect. There he came to know Paul Allen, who would later become his business partner. Gate’s early experience with computers included debugging them, helping computerize electric power grids, and founding with Allen a firm called Traf-O-Data. He did all these things while still in high school. Their small company earned them $20,000 in fees for analyzing local traffic patterns.
William Henry Gates grew up in a very healthy and nurturing environment. Gates was born in Seattle Washington on October 28, 1955 where he was the middle child of two sisters Kristi and Libby Gates (Bellis 1). His parents Mary and William Gates were both highly successful, his mother was a school teacher but decided to instead focus more on home life, and his father was an attorney at law (Bill 1). The Gates family was very competitive and always rewarded the victor in a competition while punishing the loser (Bill 1). This operant conditioning led to the development of Gates’ highly competitive personality and played a prominent role throughout his lifetime. Bill Gates, as he was commonly called, attended middle school at Lakeside School, a private preparatory school, in which he excelled in all of his subjects, particularly math and science (Bellis 2). His favorite hobby as a child was reading, as he spent a majority of his time pouring over encyclopedias and oth...
Bill Gates went from an upper middle-class family to the one of the richest men in the world; who owns the largest software company, Microsoft. Neither Bill, nor Microsoft have reached their peak, but many events helped to lead them to where they are today. In the beginning, Bill Gates, a skinny, shy awkward boy born on October 28, 1955 to Mary and William Gates. As a teenager, Bill seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving parents. His father, an attorney and his mother a teacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of the United Way placed him in Lakeside. This is a very elite private school. It was there, that Bill was first introduced to computers. The following year, he wrote his first computer program, then a scheduling program for the school - which coincidentally placed him and his best friend, Paul Allen, in the same classes as the prettiest girls in the school.
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.
Bill h. Gates was born in Seattle Washington ,1955, October 28th.Bill was an only son he had one sister. Gates parents wanted him to have a career in law, but he started studying computer research. His older sister Kristi is a tax accountant. ‘‘Lakeside was a private school chosen by Gates's parents in the hopes that it would be more challenging for their son's intellectual drive and curiosity.’’ When gates first started with computers he was debugging them and helped to computerize electric power grids for Bonneville Power Administration. Gates dropped out of Harvard, and ended his academic life and started his life of a software designer.
Bill gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He grew up with two sisters one older, Kristanne and one younger, Libby. Around the age of 11 Bill’s parents were troubled about his behavior because they didn't want him to become a loner. Although Bill’s parents were firm believers in public education, at the age of 13 they sent
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...
Gates, along with his friend, Paul Allen , used to spend hours in front of the computer. Sometimes he spent the whole day in the computer room reading computer books and magazines and developing computer programs. Gates was so obsessed with the computer that he often missed his classes and never did his homework on time.
Gates did not have the average intelligence level of a ten year old, he was a genius. In his free time he played board games that challenged the mind. 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 … Biography)”. He did better in nearly all of his classes (Bill … Biography). A group of mothers decided to put proceeds from an even...
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