Bill GatesA geek who changed the world

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杜经伦 周奕天

王铭聪 朱宇霆

• William Henry Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft.

Introduction of Bill Gates

• On October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was born in the west coast of the United States a family in Seattle, Washington.

• His father is a famous local lawyer, his mother is a director of the bank system, his grandfather, a former president of the central bank.

Senior High School

• In the Lakeside School, Gates met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.

Senior High School

• At the age of 17, Gates sold his first computer programming work, a time table system, the buyer is his high school, the price is $4200.

Harvard

• Gates scored 1590 in SAT and full marks are 1600 points. After that, he entered Harvard University.

Harvard

• In 1973, Gates entered Harvard. In 1974, he met Steve Ballmer, The current CEO of Microsoft.

Harvard

• In Harvard, Gates helped write the Altair BASIC, it was Microsoft's first product.

Drop out of school

• In the junior year(1974), Gates left Harvard. He put all his passion and energy into Microsoft.

Fall in love

• In 1987, Microsoft released a ceremony held in Manhattan, Gates met his future wife Melinda Gates, one of Microsoft's employees. They were married in 1994.

Wealth

• He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the world's second wealthiest person. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates is the world's richest person in 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007

Wealth

Philanthropy

• On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates announced that he will be out of Microsoft company daily affairs in two years, so that the main focus on health and education charity.

Character

• He is known as the extreme individualism. According to one of his high school classmates ， Bill Gates declared he would become a millionaire at the age of 30.

Well-known saying

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Dying with great wealth is a disgrace.

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