Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He took an early interest in computers and programming. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen and developed the MS-DOS operating system, helping Microsoft become the dominant player in the PC market. Gates led Microsoft's growth to become the world's largest software company. He stepped down as CEO in 2000 and now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to reduce inequity worldwide.

1. Bill
Gates

2. William Henry Gates III
Early Life
 October 28, 1955 (age 57)
in Seattle, Washington, US
 Estimated met worth: $66 B (2nd in the world)
 Father was a lawyer
 Mother was part of the board of directors for First Interstate
BancSystem and the United Way
 Took an early interest in computers on his 8th grade and was
banned with Paul Allen when caught exploiting bugs in the
computer to obtain free computer time
 Wrote computer program for school – which he modified to
be placed with mostly female classmates
 Scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT
 Dropped out of Harvard to start a business with the support
of his parents

3. Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship at an early age
 At 15, Gates and Allen went into business together,
developing a program to measure the traffic flow in Seattle,
which netted $20,000
 Recognizing and seizing opportunity
 December 1974 – Gates and Allen saw a magazine article
about the world’s first microcomputer
 Called the president of the company claiming that they
had written a code, which they actually have not done
 Started his own business with Paul Allen
 Gates oversaw the business details but still wrote codes
and personally reviewed all of their developments

4. "Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested in-and
everything we need to know."-Bill Gates
Microsoft The Man Behind The Machine
 Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975
 Micro-soft to Microsoft
 Developed MS-DOS for IBM, while retaining the right
to license the program to other computer makers
 IBM’s hardware were copied by other companies
but the Microsoft had a copyright to MS-DOS
 Microsoft's sales soared from $7 million in 1980 to $16
million in 1981
 Launched the first retail version
of Microsoft Windows on
Nov. 20, 1985

5. "Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested in-and
everything we need to know."-Bill Gates
Microsoft The Man Behind The Machine
 Was sued by Apple after the release of windows, which
Apple lost du to no merit in 1990
 Adopted by third party developers
 Sold at a rate of 1 million copies per month in 1993 and
was in 85% of the world’s computers
 Posted sales of $19.7 B in 1993, with Gates already
amassing a personal wealth of $90 Billion
 Accused of anti-competitive business approach
(monopoly)
 Consummate geek + hard-driven businessman

6. Philanthrop Reducing inequity is the highest human achievement
y Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Established in 2000
 Gates transitioned to a part-time job in Microsoft to
take a full-time job in their Foundation
 As of 2007, has given over $28 billion to charity
 On December 9, 2010, Gates, investor Warren
Buffett, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's CEO)
signed a promise they called the "Gates-
Buffet Giving Pledge", in which they promised to
donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the
course of time

7. Interesting Facts
 Value of Gate’s property - $125 million, and the annual property tax is
$991,000
 Owns Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci –
bought for $30.8m
 In 1999, Gate’s wealth reached $101 B
 Bill Gates earns $250 Us Dollars every second, that’s about $20
million a day and $7.2 Billion a year!
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Sources reatest-entrepreneurs.fortune/3.html
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197526
http://www.ltbn.com/hall_of_fame/Gates.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060807-gates-
commencement.html?page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Post-Microsoft

9. Thank “It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to
You! heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates