Education: Harvard university{1973- 1975},lakeside school{1967- 1973}
Net worth: 12,860 crores USD.
Bill gates
Who is Bill gates?
bill gates is an american entrepreneur, programmer, investor and philanthropist. he and Paul Allen
co- founded Microsoft which is the #1 software company in the world. in 2015 their revenue was 110.4 billion USD. bill gates is the second richest man on earth with a net worth of 100.6 billion USD.
He was the Ceo of Microsoft until January 2000, currently he is the technology advisor to Ceo Satya Nadella. he focuses a lot of his time on the bill& Melinda gates foundation, that is way he has taken a less demanding role at Microsoft so that he can focus more on philanthropy.
Biography of bill gates
Bill gates was born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955.his father is William H. gates sr and his mother is Mary Maxwall gates. he has one older sister Kristi gates and one younger sister Libby gates. at the age of 13 he enrolled in lakeside school a private preparatory school.
while at that school he took an interest in programming the general electric system in BASIC and was excused from classes to pursue his interest. he built his first computer program on the general electric machine. gates met Paul Allen at the school and they worked togather to find bugs in the PDP- 10 system belonging to computer center corporation. gates, paul and two other student wrote a payroll program for information sciences in exchang for computer time and royalties.
After that it lead on to his school becoming fully aware of his programming skills, he created a program to schedule students in classes. at the age of 17 he and paul started a venture called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on intel 8008 processors. gates graduated from lakeside school in 1973 and was a national merit scholar, he scored 1595 out of 1600 on the sat. he enrolled at harvard college in the autumn of 1973 where he met steve Ballmar.
Gates did not have a study plan at harvard but spent a lot of time using the computers. in 1974 he joined paul allen at honeywall. in 1975 the MITS altair 8800 based on intel's 8080 CPU was released. bill and paul saw this as an opportunity to start their own software company.
Philanthropy
Gates started his foundation the William H.Gates foundation in 1994 by selling some of his shares in Microsoft, he was inspired by the work of Andrew Carnegie and john D.Rockefeller, in 2000 he and his wife merged the three family foundations to create the bill and Melinda gates foundation, there foundation is the wealthiest , with assist valued at more than usd 34.6 billion.
Reading Bill Gates
bill gates loves to reads books, he is an avid reader, on his personal blog gates notes he has overed 150 books recommendation, as kid he loved to read to self- self education in one of the traits of succesfull people.
Quotes from bill gates are-
1.} "don't compare yourself with anyone in this world.....if you do so, you are insulting yourself".,
2.} "if you are born poor its not your mistake, but if you Diepoor it's your mistake",
3.} "We all need people who will give us feedback. that's how we improve",.
4.} "Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable".,
5❤.} "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others".,
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