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    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

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    Bill Gates is a frugal, persevering, supreme computer geek who can “hack code” with the greatest of them and is probably the most successful entrepreneur of the 20th century. While the other side of him is a hard-driven businessman. Gates felt that standards were one of the most important attributes you could possess in a company which has shaped the computer industry into what it is today. I chose to write about Mr. Gates because he is a programming genius, and through his programming skills

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    money? Bill Gates has been named the world’s wealthiest person four different times. This has come from being the founder of Microsoft the largest personal computer software company. Also from creating a great foundation with his wife that’s main focus is to help people living in poverty with their health. Bill Gates is an influential American because he helped bring forward the use of computers by his creation of his company Microsoft and helped people with diseases in poor countries. Bill Gates

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    Bill Gates is worth about 79.2 Billion US dollars, at his peak 101 Billion US dollars. Bill Gates is a computer programmer, entrepreneur who took the computer industry by storm. He formed the company Microsoft and made it a leading computer corporation within ten years of opening for business. Bill Gates later stopped working full time at Microsoft and focused on his Foundation called Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is an amazing and interesting person to know about. Bill Gates

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    Bill Gates How he effected the world with his accomplishments      William Bill Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He accomplished many unbelievable things, and highly influenced the people around him in many ways.      In University, Bill Gates was known to be the “smart computer nerd,” who totally amazed all of his friends with his knowledge. One of the people that he had influenced the most was Steve Ballmer, current Microsoft’s Chief Executive

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    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). At an early

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    Mr. Gates continue his education in Harvard Law where he was admitted with a SAT score 1590 (over 99.65%) but on his second year he left all behind to pursue his vision. Vision Bill Gates is one of the most visionary leaders of our time. He created in his mind the idea of the greatness of computerized systems and that vision even though far at

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    changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed” (brainyquotes.com). Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, wanted to change the world forever, which he did. Bill Gates affected American history through his impact on technology while dealing with positive and negative criticism during a lifetime of success.

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    The saga of an entrepreneur who changed the face of the World - BILL GATES Abstract This article deals with the life and career outline of the American Business Magnate and the cofounder and CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates. The article primarily emphasizes on the inception and proliferation of Microsoft along with some of Gates’ major business strategies which assisted him to become the father of Personal Computers and paved way for his company to deliver high standards of products to the customers

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    most successful entrepreneur, the Bill Gates (ranker.com). According to Forbes, Bill Gates is on the top as the richest man in the world and Forbes 400 list of successful entrepreneurs and 7th rank of the world’s most powerful people. Background of Bill Gates: (Ref 2 books) On October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, Bill Gates was conceived as William Henry Gates III. His father was an accountant named William Henry Gates II and mother Mary Maxwell Gates. Bill was an extremely dynamic and loved

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