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William Henry Gates III
Who was Bill Gates?
William Henry Gates III, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle,
Washington. Gates began to show
an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 at the
Lakeside School. He pursued his
passion through college. Striking out on his own with his friend
and business partner Paul Allen,
Gates found himself at the right place at the right time.
Through technological innovation, keen
business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics he built
the world's largest software
business, Microsoft. In the process he became one of the richest
men in the world.
How Bill Gates started his business?
Bill Gates would spend hours, upon hours at the computer room at
the high-school, and he
eventually met a man named, Paul Allen whom shared the same
interests as Bill Gates. Bill
Gates in 1973 graduated, Lakeside and was accepted by the
prestigious University Of Harvard.
Gates during his years at Harvard University never had a
definite career plan, for some time he
thought of pursuing a career in law for the admiration he had
with politics, but his true craze
was staying up all day and night with the computer. Bill Gates
met Steve Ballmer whom would
soon join Gates in his venture to start his own company,
Microsoft. This all started when Paul
Allen, Bill's former school mate moved to Boston from Seattle
for a job. Paul Allen picked up a
magazine at Harvard Square which read, "World's First
Minicomputer Kit To Rival Commercial
Models" to Bill Gates and Paul Allen this was the moment they
had been waiting for, the dawn
of personal computer had begun. Ed Roberts who ran this
phenomenal product was looking for
someone to do further programming to it. Bill Gates and Allen
Paul soon took on this task and
this partnership with Ed Roberts eventually led to the first
product made by Microsoft the Altair
BASIC. "Microsoft" was created in 1976 Altair BASIC was an
programming language which ran
on the MITS Altair 8800. Gates due to the success of Altair
BASIC decided to drop out of
Harvard and never returned to complete his studies. Microsoft
was located in Albuquerque
from 1976 to 1979. In 1979 they relocated their location to
Bellevue Washington on
January,1,1979.
