Bill Gates (American business magnate)
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William Henry Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, as of May 2014, as well as being the largest individual shareholder. He is considered one of the most famous entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution. in the 1970s and 1980. Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the largest personal computer software company in the world. Gates led the company until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by Steve Ballmer, but he remained chairman of the board of directors and chief software architect.In the 1990s, he was criticized for his business strategy, which has been seen as anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by several court decisions. In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at Microsoft and worked full-time at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his wife Melinda Gates founded. in 2000.He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft's board in February 2014 and took a new position as technology advisor to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates stepped down from his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts, including climate change, global health and development, and education. Bill Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's richest people since 1987.From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the world's richest person every year except from 2010 to 2013. In October 2017, he was left behind. By Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated net worth of US$90.6 billion, Gates had a net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time. As of May 2021, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$144 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.Later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has made several commercial and philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder and chairman of several companies including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3 and TerraPower. He has given large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is considered the largest private charity in the world. Through the foundation, he led the vaccination campaign of the early 21st century,which made a significant contribution to the eradication. of wild poliovirus in Africa. In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, under which they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to charity.
Early life
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955. He is the son of William H. Gates Sr. (1925–2020) and Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America. Gates's maternal grandfather was J. W. Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has an older sister Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix The family lived in the Sand Point area of Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare tornado when Gates was seven years old.Early in his life, Gates observed that his parents wanted him to pursue a law career. When he was young, his family regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child. The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing"
Paul Allen and Bill Gates at the Lakeside School in 1970
He enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school, where he wrote his first software program. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers' Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and he was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, Gates and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans, for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time. The four students formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money. At the end of the ban, they offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for extra computer time. Rather than using the system remotely via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970 when the company went out of business. The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return. The duo worked diligently in order to have the program ready for their senior year. Towards the end of their junior year, Evans was killed in a mountain climbing accident, which Gates has described as one of the saddest days of his life. Gates then turned to Allen who helped him finish the system for Lakeside. Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In 1972, he served as a congressional page in the House of Representatives. He was a National Merit Scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. He chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. While at Harvard, he met fellow student Steve Ballmer. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer stayed and graduated magna cum laude. Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014. Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems presented in a combinatorics class by professor Harry Lewis. His solution held the record as the fastest version for over 30 years, and its successor is faster by only 2% His solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. In 1975, the MITS Altair 8800 was released based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company. Gates dropped out of Harvard that same year. His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company. He explained his decision to leave Harvard: "if things hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. I was officially on leave."
Education
Gates was an avid reader as a child, spending many hours focusing on reference books such as encyclopedias. At the age of 11 or 12, Gates's parents began to worry about his behavior. He was doing well in school, but he got bored and withdrawn at times, and his parents worried that he might be a loner. Although he was a firm believer in public education,When Gates turned 13, his parents enrolled him at the Lakeside Special Preparatory School in Seattle. He flourished in almost all his subjects, excelling in mathematics and science, but also doing very well in drama and English. At Lakeside School, the Seattle Computer Company offered to provide computer time for students. The Mother's Club used the proceeds from the school's rumored sale to purchase a teletype terminal for the students to use.Gates was fascinated by what a computer could do and spent most of his free time working at the terminal. He wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language that allowed users to play against a computer. Gates graduated from Lakeside in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the college SAT exam, a feat of intellectual achievement he claimed for many years when introducing himself to newcomers.
Founder of microsoft
Gates read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, which showcased the Altair 8800, and contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to inform him that he and other platforms would need a basic interpreter. were working on. In fact, Gates and Allen did not own an Altair and did not write code for it; They only wanted to gauge MITS's interest.MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet with him for a demonstration, and over the course of a few weeks he developed an Altair emulator that ran on a mini computer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration was held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; This was a success and resulted in an agreement with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. MITS hired Allen, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard in November 1975 to work with him at MITS.Allen named his partnership a combination of "micro-soft", "microcomputer", and "software", and his first office was in Albuquerque. The first employee Gates and Allen hired was their high school colleague Rick Weiland. They omitted the hyphen within a year and officially registered the trade name "Microsoft" with the New Mexico Secretary of State on November 26, 1976. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.But Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had been leaked and was being copied and distributed widely. In February 1976, he wrote an open letter to hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he claimed that more than 90% of Microsoft Altair BASIC users had not paid Microsoft for it and that Altair was in danger of ending the "hobby market". was. Incentives for any professional developer to produce, distribute and maintain high quality software. The paper was unpopular with many computer hobbyists,But Gates maintained his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent from MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Gates said he personally reviewed and the company rewrote every line of code in its first five years. As the company grew, he changed to a manager role,Then an executive. DONKEY.BAS is a computer game written in 1981 and included early versions of the PC DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. This is a driving game in which the player must avoid hitting the donkeys. The game was written by Gates and Neil Konzen.
Microsoft's software for IBM PC
As the computer industry grew, with companies like Apple, Intel and IBM developing hardware and components, Gates was continuously on the road touting the merits of Microsoft software applications. He often took his mother with him. Mary was highly respected and well connected with her membership on several corporate boards, including IBM's. It was through Mary that Gates met the CEO of IBM. In November 1980, IBM was looking for software that would operate their upcoming personal computer (PC) and approached Microsoft. Legend has it that at the first meeting with Gates someone at IBM mistook him for an office assistant and asked him to serve coffee. Gates did look very young, but he quickly impressed IBM, convincing them that he and his company could meet their needs. The only problem was that Microsoft had not developed the basic operating system that would run IBM's new computers. Not to be stopped, Gates bought an operating system that was developed to run on computers similar to IBM's PC. He made a deal with the software's developer, making Microsoft the exclusive licensing agent and later full owner of the software but not telling them of the IBM deal. The company later sued Microsoft and Gates for withholding important information. Microsoft settled out of court for an undisclosed amount, but neither Gates nor Microsoft admitted to any wrongdoing. Gates had to adapt the newly purchased software to work for the IBM PC. He delivered it for a $50,000 fee, the same price he had paid for the software in its original form. IBM wanted to buy the source code, which would have given them the information to the operating system. Gates refused, instead proposing that IBM pay a licensing fee for copies of the software sold with their computers. Doing this allowed Microsoft to license the software they called MS-DOS to any other PC manufacturer, should other computer companies clone the IBM PC, which they soon did. Microsoft also released software called Softcard, which allowed Microsoft BASIC to operate on Apple II machines. Following the development of software for IBM, between 1979 and 1981 Microsoft's growth exploded. Staff increased from 25 to 128, and revenue shot up from $2.5 million to $16 million. In mid-1981, Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, and Gates was appointed president and chairman of the board. Allen was named executive vice president. By 1983, Microsoft was going global with offices in Great Britain and Japan. An estimated 30 percent of the world's computers ran on its software.
Rivalry With Steve Jobs
Though their rivalry is legend, Microsoft and Apple shared many of their early innovations. In 1981, Apple, at the time led by Steve Jobs, invited Microsoft to help develop software for Macintosh computers. Some developers were involved in both Microsoft development and the development of Microsoft applications for Macintosh. The collaboration could be seen in some shared names between the Microsoft and Macintosh systems. It was through this knowledge sharing that Microsoft developed Windows, a system that used a mouse to drive a graphic interface, displaying text and images on the screen. This differed greatly from the text-and-keyboard driven MS-DOS system where all text formatting showed on the screen as code and not what actually would be printed. Gates quickly recognized the threat this kind of software might pose for MS-DOS and Microsoft overall. For the unsophisticated user—which was most of the buying public—the graphic imagery of the competing VisiCorp software used in a Macintosh system would be so much easier to use. Gates announced in an advertising campaign that a new Microsoft operating system was about to be developed that would use a graphic interface. It was to be called "Windows," and would be compatible with all PC software products developed on the MS-DOS system. The announcement was a bluff, in that Microsoft had no such program under development.
Bill Gates net worth
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Bill Gates Age
William Henry Gates, commonly known as Bill Gates, was born on 28 October 1955 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Now the age of Mr. Gates is 67 years old.
Personal life
Gates married Melinda French on the Hawaiian Island of Lanai on January 1, 1994.At the time, Gates was given permission by Melinda to spend limited time with his ex-girlfriend, businesswoman Ann Winblad. Bill and Melinda have three children: Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe.The family's residence is an earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. In 2009, property taxes on the mansion were reported to be US$1.063 million, on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) estate has a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, as well as a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room.On May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced that they had decided to divorce following 27 years of marriage, and 34 years as a couple.The couple said they will keep working together on charitable efforts. The Wall Street Journal reported that Melinda had been meeting with divorce attorneys since 2019, citing interviews that suggested Bill's ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was at least one of her concerns.A New York Times article also reported several cases of misconduct at Microsoft and at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him and had an affair with an employee at Microsoft in 2000. Six current and former employees of Microsoft reported that Gates created at times an uncomfortable workplace environment for women. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gates stated in regard to his faith: "The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief."In the same 2014 interview Gates also said: "I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know." Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for US$30.8 million at an auction in 1994.In 1998, Gates reportedly paid $30 million for the original 1885 maritime painting Lost on the Grand Banks, at the time a record price for an American painting. Gates is an avid reader, and the ceiling of his large home library is engraved with a quotation from The Great Gatsby.He also enjoys playing bridge, tennis, and golf.Gates's days are planned for him on a minute-by-minute basis, similar to the U.S. President's schedule.Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates flew coach (economy class) in commercial aircraft until 1997, when he bought a private jet.In 2016, he revealed that he is color-blind.
