William Henry "Bill" Gates III
(born October 28, 1955)
Married Melinda French on January 1, 1994 and have 3 children.
(born October 28, 1955)
Married Melinda French on January 1, 1994 and have 3 children.
Bill Gates is an American business magnate and the chairman of Microsoft, a software company he found with Paul Allen. He's ranked one of the wealthiest people in the world. During his career at Microsoft, he held the positions CEO, and chief software architect. He remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. Gates also authored and co-authored several books.
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to an upper middle class family. At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. There, he took an interest in computers. He also met longtime friend and business partner, Paul Allen. Gates graduted from Lakeside in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT ad enrolled at Harvard College. He didn't have a definite study plan at Harvard and spent most of his time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics. They consider it anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to an upper middle class family. At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. There, he took an interest in computers. He also met longtime friend and business partner, Paul Allen. Gates graduted from Lakeside in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT ad enrolled at Harvard College. He didn't have a definite study plan at Harvard and spent most of his time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics. They consider it anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
