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Bill Gates is born in Seattle, Washington. His dad was a well-known lawyer while his mother was a teacher
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Bill Gates chooses to go to Lakeside High School when he was 13 years old. He became good friends will Paul Allen, who ended up being the co-founder of Microsoft with Gates later in life
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Gates finished his time at Lakeside while being a National Merit Scholar and scoring a 1590/1600 on his SAT. He enrolled at Harvard University
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Gates and Allen were intrigued with a computer called the Altair 8800, which inspired them to create a simplified version. This created Microsoft
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Microsoft partnered with IBM to make a personal computer
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Gates released Windows, which was/is an operating system for PC computers to run on. It is still widely used today as one of the most popular and best systems.
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Bill Gates becomes a billionaire in 1987. He is the youngest person in history to achieve the status at the time. He was 31 years old.
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French. They are still happily married and have three children together
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Bill Gates became the richest man in the entire world with a value of almost 13 billion dollars.
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Bill and his wife started this campaign of their foundation to change poverty, school, children and many other positive impacts on a global scale.
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Gates stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft. His friend and classmate at Harvard, Steve Ballmer, succeeded him.
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are described as best friends. They have each others phone numbers on speed dial. They created the giving pledge, which advises billionaires to give over half of their wealth. Buffet donated over 30 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
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Gates is the commencement speaker at the school that he dropped out of in 2007, Harvard.
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Bill Gates appeared in a few different Microsoft commercials to help advance Microsoft. He had famous television star Jerry Seinfeld appear in a commercial with him. Check out the commercial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOohFst9Lc
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Of his 95 billion dollars in assets, Gates pledged to give away over 99% percent of his wealth to charitable causes.
