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Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He showed an early aptitude for computers and helped found Microsoft in 1975 along with Paul Allen. Gates led Microsoft and grew it into the largest software company in the world, becoming the richest person by the mid-1990s. He stepped down as CEO in 2000 but remains chairman of Microsoft. Gates now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty globally.

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He showed an early aptitude for computers and helped found Microsoft in 1975 along with Paul Allen. Gates led Microsoft and grew it into the largest software company in the world, becoming the richest person by the mid-1990s. He stepped down as CEO in 2000 but remains chairman of Microsoft. Gates now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty globally.

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Name : Naili Amaliah Asadi

Class : XI-A-3
Number: 30

Bill Gates

William Henry Bill


Gates, was born in Seattle
Washington on Friday,
October 28th, 1955. His
father, William H. Gates, Sr.
is a well-known lawyer,
while his mother, Mary
Maxwell, He has a younger
sister named Libby and an
older sister named
Kristianne. Gates is a
business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author from the United States
who is now the chairman of a large corporate in the world, Microsoft.

Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest
people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been
since 2014.Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to
more than US$82 billion.Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased by
US$15 billion. Gates is currently the wealthiest person in the world with a net
worth of US$90 billion as of August 2016.

Gates was a member of the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem


and the United Way. Gates was a smart kid, but he was too vigorous and tends
to have trouble in school. So, at age of 11, he moved to Lakeside School. Lakeside
School is an elementary school that is reserved just for male students. In this
school, in 1968, Bill Gates was introduced to the world of computers in the form
of a teletype machine.

In 1973, Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside School. Then, he took the SAT tests
and got a very high score, 1590 from 1600. Then, he was accepted at Harvard
College since 1975. At this university, he met Paul Allen, the man who was very
instrumental in developing Microsoft.

In 1975, they built cooperation and set up an office in Albuquerque. Their


partnership called the ‘Micro-soft‘. A year later, precisely on November 26th,
1976, the name ‘Micro-soft‘ turns into’Microsoft‘. Focusing on expanding the
company made Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.

Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November


20th, 1985, and in August, the company reached an agreement with IBM to
develop a separate operating system called OS/2.

Although the two companies have successfully developed the first version of this
system, different creativity undermined this cooperation. Gates issued an
internal memo on May 16th, 1991 announcing that the cooperation OS/2 ended
and Microsoft shifted its operations to the Windows NT kernel development.

On January 1st, 1994, Bill Gates was married to a beautiful woman named
Melinda French. Their marriage was blessed with three children, namely:
Jennifer Katharine Gates (born 1996), Rory John Gates (born in 1999), and
Phoebe Adele Gates (born 2002).

In 2000, Bill Gates stepped down from his position as Chief Executive Officer and
he chose to return to his old profession as the Head of Research and
Development Software at his own company, Microsoft Corp. Eight years later,
Bill Gates decided to step down from Microsoft’s management and concentrate
on philanthropic work through the establishment of a charitable foundation, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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