Childhood and youth
Bill Gates was born in Seattle (Washington, USA) in the family of corporate lawyer William Henry Gates II, and Mary Maxwell Gates, who held senior positions on the board of directors of several major American companies. Bill was the second child in the family, he has two sisters - the older Christy and the younger Libby. Judging by the names of his ancestors, the genius’s family includes representatives of several nationalities: Germans, Scots and English.
When the boy went to school, his parents enrolled him in the most privileged educational institution in Seattle - Lakeside. Already at an early age, Bill’s favorite subject was programming. As a teenager, the American wrote his first game in BASIC. Although these were only “Tic Tac Toe”, they became the starting point in his future successes in his professional biography.
In high school, Bill met Paul Allen, who later became his main business partner, but at school the boys were more interested in hacking computer programs, without thinking about the strategy for developing innovative ideas.
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Bill Gates as a child
In 1970, together with a school friend, Bill wrote the first program for controlling traffic and organized a company to distribute it, which was called Traf-O-Data. This project brought the authors $20 thousand. Such success made the programmers believe in their own abilities.
In 1971, Bill and Paul even worked for a professional company, Information Sciences. The guys wrote a program for maintaining payrolls, but did not have time to finish it, since the project was stopped. In addition, as schoolchildren, Gates and Allen worked for TRW, where they programmed part of the code for a project that employees of the Bonneville Power Administration planned to use.
In 1973, Bill Gates became a student at Harvard University. Of course, he was going to specialize in software, but the practical side of things attracted the young man much more than the theory of science, so the unmotivated student missed a lot of classes. After studying only 2 courses, the aspiring programmer was expelled from the university. The lack of higher education did not become an obstacle for the young man to achieve success.
In early 1975, Paul Allen learns that Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems is releasing a new generation of computers, the Altair 8800. Bill Gates gets bold and calls Ed Roberts, who headed this organization. Soon after the interview at MITS, the bosom friends become partners of the company.
Initially, they planned the name “Allen and Gates,” but such names are not typical for the high-tech market. Then the guys looked at the name of the employing company, deciding on a specific phrase - Micro-Soft (Microprocessors and Software). Within a year, the hyphen disappeared from the brand name, and the Microsoft trademark was registered in November 1976.
MITS soon ceased to exist, but Microsoft was able to attract new customers. Apple Corporation, whose founder was Steve Jobs, and Commodore, as well as computer developer RadioShack, have become new partners of Microsoft.
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Bill Gates in his youth
Friends and business partners began to plan the development of an innovative structure for decades. Allen dealt with technical issues, and Gates focused on developing public relations, contracts and other business contacts. The result of Microsoft's work was Microsoft Fortran, which appeared in 1977. This OS can easily be considered the first full-fledged competitor to the standard CP/M system for Intel-based computers.
In 1980, Microsoft achieved success by entering into a deal with the “shark” of the computer business – IBM Corporation. Gates and Allen offered a more attractive system for their new computer than Digital Research, with which IBM had previously collaborated. Not least important for achieving this goal was the friendly acquaintance of Gates’ mother with IBM executives John Opel and John Akers.
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates
Soon, Bill and Paul's company offered the computer market a new system, MS-DOS, which for a long time became the main OS for Intel-based personal computers. In 1985, Microsoft released Windows, which differed from all previous competitors in its graphic design. Thus, the Windows computer era began, although the breakthrough came only in 1993 after the appearance of the third version of this system - Windows 3.1.
In 1986, Microsoft Corporation entered the stock markets. The value of the shares grew rapidly, and within a few months Bill became a billionaire. Gradually, the company's position strengthened. By 1988, Microsoft was already considered the largest computer software developer in the world. Another decade later, Gates became the richest man in the world.
A new stage in the Microsoft era
Work on finding new partners continues and is quite successful: Apple Corporation, Commodore, computer developer Radio Shack - they all want to get the software of the innovative manufacturer.
A new stage begins for the company - planning and development of the existing structure in the long term. Gates is responsible for handling paperwork, developing public relations, and finding new lucrative contracts, while Allen focuses on the technical side of the issue.
1977 – The Microsoft Fortran operating system is presented to the world. It was a completely new OS that competed with the “monopolist” of those times - the CP/M system.
But the company's crazy success is just ahead. In 1980, Microsoft entered into a deal with IBM Corporation, a giant in the computer business. Microsoft offers IBM an innovative solution - a system for their new computer. IBM, who have worked with Digital Research systems for a long time, having sensed the fundamental difference between the products, become Microsoft partners for many years. The fact that Gates’ mother was on good terms with IBM executives was no secret to anyone, which subsequently gave rise to a lot of judgments about how everything had been decided in advance.
But, be that as it may, the fact remains a fact. MS-DOS, proposed by Microsoft, became a completely new product on the market and for a long time established itself as the “leader” of the OS for Intel-based computers existing at that time.
In 1985, a completely new Windows system appeared. It is distinguished by its graphic design, and it is with it that the era of Windows begins, and already in 1993, with the advent of Windows 3.1, a real breakthrough occurs.
Career
In 1989, the businessman founded the Corbis company. The main task of this structure was the licensing of photographs, videos and other multimedia material for the media. Gates' idea was that in the future people would decorate their homes not with paintings, but with electronic reproductions of them.
Corbis owns the rights to reproduce images of works of art in museums around the world. The St. Petersburg Hermitage, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the London National Gallery constantly cooperate with the company of the American entrepreneur. Bill Gates personally acquired a collection of rare works by Leonardo da Vinci, which are now on display at the Seattle Art Museum.
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In the fall of 2008, Gates registered a new company bgC3 (Bill Gates Company Three). This acronym stands for Bill Gates' Third Company. The main tasks of the organization are research and analytical.
His career as an entrepreneur at Microsoft ended in March 2021 when Gates announced that he was leaving the company's board of directors. Today, the entrepreneur earns money as an adviser to the chairman of the board. The businessman chose charity as his main activity.
Social activity
The billionaire and his wife became the founders of the world's largest charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides assistance to all those in need, regardless of nationality. The purpose of this enterprise is to support and improve the healthcare system, as well as overcome hunger in poor countries.
The entrepreneur is passionate about the ideas of maintaining environmental safety on Earth. In collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates created the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, whose work is to identify and attract private investment in the production of clean energy sources.
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Bill Gates pays attention to investing in the latest developments, such as the construction of a “smart city”, the creation of alternative energy, which will affect the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The entrepreneur also sponsors the creation of safe batteries that can become an alternative to Mata lithium-ion batteries. A businessman supports a project to produce artificial meat.
In 2021, the philanthropist donated $460 million to combat the crisis in US education. He also became a participant in a program to combat Alzheimer's disease.
Books
Bill Gates has published two bestsellers. In these books, the entrepreneur decided to talk about the rules of life that helped him achieve success. In 1995, The Road Ahead was published, which was at one time on the bestseller list of the American newspaper The New York Times.
In 1999, Gates published the book Business the Speed of Thought. The work has been translated into 25 languages. The author in his publications talks about ways to use computer technology to solve problems in business.
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The history of the origin and development of the computer industry was captured in the film “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” released in 1999. The drama was about the confrontation between Microsoft and Apple. Spectators and critics noted the great similarity between the leading actors and their characters. The image of Bill Gates in the frame was recreated by Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Allen was presented by Josh Hopkins.
In 2021, Gates released another literary work dedicated to the “green theme” - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. In his book, which he presented on his personal website, the entrepreneur proposed increasing investments in nuclear energy and the production of electric vehicles. The publication debuted at the top of The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list.
Personal qualities of Bill Gates
Bill has a knack for recognizing other people's talents. He believes that the most important thing for a company's growth is intellectual capital. He knew how to gather a strong team around himself. The fact that Microsoft still dominates the operating system market is apparently a consequence of this quality of Bill Gates. He understood what intellectual capital was.
Bill believed it was important to be first in everything. Sometimes uncooked products were released onto the market. For example, Windows 95 was not stable. But the result speaks for itself. Windows still surpasses fellow perfectionists Apple in market share.
As we have already written, Gates is distinguished by pragmatism and a high degree of activity. According to Bill Gates, the secret to success is very simple and can be described in the rule of the three R’s: “Work, work, work.”
Bill is also successful in his personal life. He has a strong family and three children.
Few people know that Bill also succeeded as the author of several books. For example, I have Bill’s book “Business at the Speed of Thought” on my shelf. Bill Gates is also the author of several books about success, creativity, etc.
Bill appears in the film “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, “Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World”. A film was also made about the success story of Bill Gates.
Personal life
The personal life of an entrepreneur is connected with one woman. In 1987, at a work meeting in New York, Bill Gates met Microsoft employee Melinda French. They got married on January 1, 1994. After 2 years, the couple had a daughter, Jennifer Katharine, and later two more children - son Rory John and daughter Phoebe Adele.
For the amount of money that Bill and his wife spend annually on charity, Time magazine named them People of the Year in 2005. Their family photo was featured on the cover of the publication, which often publishes interviews and articles about the business and charity of the computer genius.
According to Forbes magazine, Bill Gates's fortune reached $90 billion in 2021. At that time, he was considered the richest person in the world. A year later, he lost the championship to Jeff Bezos, founder of the Internet company Amazon.com. Just for fun, observers calculated the computer genius’s earnings per hour – in 2021 it turned out to be $450 thousand. In 2021, the amount in the entrepreneur’s personal account reached $130.4 billion.
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The Microsoft creator's family lives in the "house of the future," so called because of the advanced electronics that control the property. The mansion is located on the shores of Lake Washington and occupies 12 thousand square meters. m. This is a residential complex consisting of three pavilions connected to each other.
The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation is called one of the smartest people on the planet, as he is among the people with the highest level of intelligence. 160 – Bill Gates' IQ level. A businessman reads up to fifty books a year. Gates, whose height reaches 177 cm, practices trampolining. One of the most exciting intellectual games is the game of bridge.
In the spring of 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their separation. The reason for the divorce was given by the couple as the fact that they no longer saw prospects for the development of their relationship as a couple. At the same time, the businessman and his ex-wife retained common projects and remained friends.
Cunning, risk and success - the birth of Windows
At first, things were not going well for the company. In 1979, Bill was expelled from Harvard for poor academic performance and numerous absenteeism. But all the negativity was smoothed over by a job offer from IBM. Microsoft was supposed to develop an operating system for the first personal computer.
Bill did not write program code, but took a different path. He bought the QDOS operating system from one of his acquaintances, renamed it MS-DOS and introduced it to IBM. IBM bought a license for MS-DOS. This money was subsequently enough for Microsoft to exist and develop quietly for several years. After the successful presentation of the IBM personal computer running on the MS-DOS operating system, the number of Microsoft clients increased sharply. After the release of Word and Excel, Microsoft's share of the global market increased even more.
In 1986 Microsoft issued shares. The demand for them was so great that Bill Gates suddenly became rich. The Windows operating system was released in 1987. It sold over a million copies in its first month of sales. In 1995, Windows 95 was introduced to the world. Within two weeks, sales of the new OS exceeded seven million.
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The Internet public caught the businessman wanting to influence the world's birth rate. Gates, speaking at the TED2010 conference, spoke about the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from energy production to a minimum.
He considered one of the methods of achieving the goal to be the creation of more vaccines, which were used to reduce population growth. The entrepreneur argued this by saying that vaccination gives the poorest segments of the population the opportunity to plan the future of their children while reducing infant mortality. Gates' statements on the RuNet were taken literally, and the billionaire was credited with a passion for eugenics.
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Bill Gates with his wife and children
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the name of Bill Gates has acquired new rumors. In the eyes of the public, he has already become the protagonist of a conspiracy theory. According to the majority of Internet users, under the pretext of vaccination, the billionaire’s foundation plans to carry out mass chipping. The businessman himself considers these rumors too stupid to try to refute them.
Now the main business of life for an entrepreneur has become activities related to ecology. Gates is interested in climate change. The businessman intends to invest up to $2 billion in the fight against global warming. One of his projects for 2021 is darkening the sun by spraying special aerosols into the Earth’s atmosphere. The philanthropist is also actively investing in the fight against coronavirus, allocating the necessary amounts for research.
With the start of the coronavirus vaccination program, a rumor began to spread on the Internet that Bill Gates and infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci lost the trial to lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. The case was allegedly heard in the US Supreme Court. The publication was later found to be fake.
Interesting facts about Bill Gates
- One of the most curious facts from the life of a billionaire is that Bill Gates became a victim of extortion by Adam Pletcher. The man studied with Gates at the university. In 1997, he demanded money from a billionaire for a computer program allegedly stolen from him. Fortunately, the extortionist was detained and, by court decision, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
- Another important event in the life of the billionaire was the awarding of the title “Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.” He was awarded this high award for his contribution to the fight to reduce poverty in the world.
- Bill Gates currently earns $250 every second. It’s easy to calculate that $216,000,000 is credited to his account per day, and $788,400,000 accumulates in 1 year. If money stopped flowing into Gates’ account, and he spent $1,000,000 a day, he would be poor in 220 years.
