Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

True name: William Henry Gates III

Born on Oct 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington

Son of William H. Gates II and Mary Gates

Has two sisters: Kirsti and Libby

Family

Did his schooling in Lakeside School

Fascinated by computer from early age

At 13, wrote his first computer program of Tic Tac Toe

School

In 1973, entered Harvard University

In junior year, dropped out of college

Saw a lot of potential in computers

College Life

With childhood friend Paul Allen, started developing BASIC program for Altair 8800

Sold a computer to Seattle city that could count city traffic

First Job

Founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975 with Paul Allen

Guided by the belief that computer would be a valuable tool in future

In 1980, developed MS-DOS for IBM

Microsoft

During 82-85, developed Windows 1.0 First GUI based OS from Microsoft Followed by Windows 2.0 and 3.0

Windows

Game changing Windows 95 Even better Windows 98 Windows XP: The most successful OS Vista Windows 7 & 8

Rise Of Windows

One of the most recognized brands Leading Tech Company in the world The most popular OS Over 70% of computers run on Windows Microsoft revenue: $74.30 Billion

Today

Made computers personal The man who changed computing One of most powerful people One of most influenced people of 20th

century Richest man on earth. For last 19 years.

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The Great Man

Genius Visionary Atheist Entrepreneur Generous Philanthropist

Virtues

A visionary business person Earns about $250 every second Taken over many companies: hotmail,

skype, ubisoft and many more

A Businessman

Many charity foundations William H. Gates Foundation with an initial

stock gift of $94 Million Donated $86 M in 2006 for Polio eradication $287M to various HIV/AIDS research Collaboration with UN, World Bank, UNICEF

to provide cheap medicines

Giving Back

Life’s not fair, get used to it. If you are born poor, it’s not your fault. But

if you die poor, it is.

Quotes

The geek who changed the world.

THANKING YOU