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William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born in Seattle.
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Gates's parents found him immature, therefore they sent him to a prep school starting at age 13. Here, he was able to use his first computer and met Paul Allen.
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After Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside, he began his higher education at Harvard, however, his Junior year, he left the university to start his own company.
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Gates and Allen were working at MITS in the summer of 1975 when they formed a partnership in which they called "Micro-Soft."
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The company name was changed from Micro-Soft to the more recognized name, Microsoft.
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The first international office of Japan was called "ASCII Microsoft" which is now known as "Microsoft Japan."
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Gates was born in Seattle, therefore he preferred being in a familiar area amongst other things I'm sure.
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It was the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Gates's company, Microsoft. This was the company's first real attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/from-windows-1-to-windows-10-29-years-of-windows-evolution#:~:text=This%20is%20where%20it%20all,relied%20on%20command%2Dline%20input. -
At age 31, Bill Gates was estimated to be worth $1.25 billion.
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Windows 95 was unknowingly the operating system that "changed everything." This is because it is installed in about 90 percent of all computers in the world.
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The largest private philanthropic foundation in the world. This foundation puts in efforts in order to help people live healthy and productive lives. It helps developing countries focus on improving health and diminish hunger and extreme poverty.
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The foundation successfully installed 47,000 computers in 11,000 libraries in all 50 states.
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TerraPower is a company that has a goal to provide the world an affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy.
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Assisted the launch of $5.5 billion effort to eliminate Polio by 2018. India was declared Polio-free by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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In 2016, Bill Gates was featured on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" where he was trying to get people to check out Gatesletter.com.
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Netflix came out with a documentary about Gates as he is one of the most successful men in America, His successes and achievements made him a well-deserved candidate for this opportunity.
