Sources:

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/300288-bill-gates-timeline

https://www.awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/bill-gates-success-story

https://sites.google.com/site/billgates9004/how-bill-gates-changed-the-world

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Imoprtant moments in his life

1) Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington

2) 1967 Goes to Lakeside School. He meets friend Paul Allen.

3) 1973 Enrolls at Harvard University

4) 1975 Drops out of school. Paul & Bill start Microsoft

5) 1980 Microsoft signs important deal with IBM

6) 1988 Paul Allen leaves Microsoft

7) 1994 Bill Marries Melinda French, a Microsoft employee, on the island of Hawaii.

8) 2000 Bill starts the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

9) 2007 Gets an honorary degree from Harvard

Bill Gates Success Story

Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur, programmer, investor and philanthropist. He and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft which is the #1 software company in the world. In 2015 their revenue was $110.4 billion. Bill Gates is the second richest man on earth with a net worth of $100.6 billion. He was the CEO of Microsoft until January 2000, currently he is the Technology Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella. He focuses a lot of his time on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that is why he has taken a less demanding role at Microsoft so that he can focus more on philanthropy. Gates met Paul Allen at the school and they worked together to find bugs in the PDP-10 system belonging to Computer Center Corporation. At the age of 17 he and Paul started a venture called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on Intel 8008 processors. Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 and was a National Merit Scholar, he scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT. He enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973 where he met Steve Ballmer. Gates did not have a study plan at Harvard but spent a lot of time using the computers. In 1974 he joined Paul Allen at Honeywell. In 1975 the MITS Altair 8800 based on Intel’s 8080 CPU was released. Bill and Paul saw this as an opportunity to start their own software company.

Microsoft Story

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers.The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, which inspired Allen to suggest that they could program a BASIC interpreter for the device. Gates called MITS and claimed that he had a working interpreter, and MITS requested a demonstration. Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as CEO, and Allen suggested the name "Micro-Soft", short for micro-computer software.

How Bill Gates Changed the World

Gates has impacted society in more ways than one. His philanthropic work is some of the greatest in the world. It has also led to the creation of over 1000 scholarships to minors ("Bill Gates Biography"). Who knows, the people receiving these scholarships, could do something great and go on to change the world even more. With the Gates foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates have been able to bring some of the greatest scientists together to help create life-changing vaccines, such as the HIV/AIDS vaccine. Gates wants to encourage people to donate what they can and get involved. Gates has said some inspiring quotations, some of which show how he truly has tried to change the world.