BILL GATES

BILL GATES 

   Full name William Henry Gates III or better known as Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He is the second child of three siblings. His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had many relationships in the city. While her mother Mary Maxwell is an employee of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and a member of the United Way National Level. Bill Gates is a smart kid, but he is too full of enthusiasm and tends to often have difficulty at school. When he was eleven years old, his parents decided to make changes to him and send him to the Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school specifically for boys. It was at Lakeside that in 1968 Bill Gates was first introduced to the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that was connected by telephone to a time-sharing computer. He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming language, and along with hackers who taught themselves at Lakeside. He spent hours writing programs, playing games, and generally learning a lot about computers. "He is an eccentric," as one of the teachers gave him the nickname. Bill Gates studied at Harvard University in Cambridge starting in 1975. There he met Paul Allen at school together. Together with Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talent in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates decided to drop out to donate his time to Microsoft. Through his hard work, the company he founded called Microsoft Corporation became successful and Bill Gates soared to become a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates successfully released a very successful operating system on the world market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. Not just once, he even made several mistakes in his software business.