Management and Change, Bill Gates
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of
Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and
Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft
had revenues of US$32.19 billion for the fiscal year ending June
2002, and employs more than 50,000 people in 72 countries and
regions.
Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters.
Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late
mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington
regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
The birth of Microsoft
A. The idea
In December of 1974, his
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The code for the program
was left mostly up to Bill Gates while Paul Allen began working on a
way to simulate the Altair with the schools PDP-10.
When they both felt their program was ready. Allen was to fly to MITS
and show off their creation. The day after Allen arrived at MITS, it
was time to test their BASIC. Entering the program into the company's
Altair was the first time Allen had ever touched one. If the Altair
simulation he designed or any of Gates's code was faulty, the
demonstration would most likely have ended in failure.
B. The start
In the Spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it
should acquaint the student body with the world of computers
[Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. Computers were still too large and costly
for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fund
raiser. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured
would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year.
In 1968, Computer Center Corporation opened for business in Seattle.
It was offering computing time at good rates, and one of the chief
programmers working for the corporation had a child attending
Lakeside. A deal was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the
Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue
providing it's students with computer time.
Gates and his comrades immediately began
too. Articles such as ‘how to get a man’ and ‘how to get a body like
The discovery of gold nuggets in Sacramento Valley in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush of 1849. Which is one of most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. News spread of the discovery thousands of gold miners traveled over sea or overland to San Francisco and surrounding areas by the end of 1849. The non-native population of California territory was over 100,000, compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000. Two billion dollars worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush peak in 1852.
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William Henry Gates III is a famous American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor and philanthropist. He is famous for being the co-founder of Microsoft. Microsoft is a company that sells computer software, operating systems, personal computers and electronics worldwide. Because of Microsoft’s popularity, Gates is one of the richest men in the world. Besides his company, Gates is currently famous for the Bill and Melinda Foundation. This foundation is where Gates is currently doing his philanthropy work. Through his company Microsoft and philanthropy, Bill Gates should indubitably be considered hero.
William Henry (Bill) Gates the one of the founders of Microsoft is a business leader, a technologist, above all a philanthropist. Bill Gates was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, his mother was a school teacher, regent at the University of Washington, chairwoman of the United Way International. Bill Gates father is an Attorney in Seattle and a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Melinda Gates is Bill’s wife and mother of their three children. (Gates, B. (2015).
William “Bill” Gates is a philanthropist, businessman, software developer, and most notably an entrepreneur who founded one of the largest company in the world; Microsoft and subsequently became the richest man in the world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington and was born into a Christian family. At a young age Bill Gates showed keen interest and talent in the computer world, and later pursued it as his career in his life. From his skills, he and partner Paul Allen built one of the world 's largest company and one of Forbes Fortune 500 Company. He was the C.E.O of Microsoft for many years until he decided to step down as chairman. In the process, Bill Gates became the richest man in the world with a net worth