William Henry Gates III

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William Henry Gates III

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Some interesting facts about Bill Gates
Was born in Washington on October 28, 1955
Loved to play board games
His best subject in grade school was math
Met his future business partner Paul Allen
at the Lakeside Preparatory School
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces
smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

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The pair became fast friends,
bonding over their common
enthusiasm for computers, even
though they were very di erent
people.
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
Allen and Gates spent
much of their free
time together working
on programs

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Programs that Bill Gates invented:
• The rst computer program
a version of tic-tac-toe
Payroll program
Scheduling program for his
school
Computer program that
helped to track tra c
patterns in Seattle
“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve
extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It’s harmful.”

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When the Altair personal
computer came out in
1974, Gates and Allan
decided they could write
a BASIC software
program
“Patience is a key element of success.”
When they nally went to
New Mexico to run the
software, it worked
perfectly the rst time

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Microsoft
Started a software company with Paul Allen called Microsoft.
Gates made a deal with IBM that would change computing
“It’s ne to celebrate success, but it is more
important to heed the lessons of failure.”
“Television is not real life. In real life, people
actually have to leave the co ee shop and go to
jobs.”

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In 1985, Gates and Microsoft
released the Microsoft
Windows operating system.
Microsoft system was soon
installed on nearly 90% of the
world's personal computers.
Windows 1.0 was last updated to
Windows 1.04 on April 1987 and
became deprecated on December 31,
2001.

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Over the next few years he introduced new products such as:
● Windows O ce programs ( Word, Excel)
● New and improved versions of Windows
Word
Excel
Updated version of Microsoft

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Bill Gates' career growth
1986, Gates took Microsoft public
The company’s stock was worth $ 520 million
Gates owned 45% of the stock himself which was worth $234 million.
Gates’ stock was worth over $ 100 billion
“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain
freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get
much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger.”

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Bill Gates’ success was the
result of a combination of
hard work, intelligence, time,
business sense and luck.
He was also not afraid to
take risks.
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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● In January of 1994, Gates married
Melinda French
In 2000, they formed the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates personally has donated over
$ 28 billion to charity
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a
basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player."

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Each of Bill Gates' children will
inherit a million dollars. This
took away some of their
father's $ 81.1 billion in net
worth.
"Leaving children
huge amounts of
money is not for
them," he explained in
an interview.

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Follow Bill Gates’ life in a 2019
Net ix three-part documentary
called Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding
Bill Gates.
Directed by Davis Guggenheim,
who is known for his works NYPD
Blue, ER, 24, Alias, The Shield, and
Deadwood, the television series
answers the questions about what
makes him tick, what and who
formed him, and how he was able
to enter a ercely competitive
industry.