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Birth
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th 1955. he would greow up there, Also, he would be the creator and cfo of Microsoft, -
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Bill Gates life
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Elementry school years
Bill grew up in Seattle washington and he attended school there. He was interested in many things, His teacher introduced him to computers. He would always be on one in school and he was very smart when it came to them. He didnt really play any sports because of his size. -
Middle School Years
In middle school Bill was obsessed with computers. He would always help or do projects for people. He was one of the only person other than the teachers that was good with computers. He would work on them if they broke or he would always be taught about them by his teachers, -
High school years
In high school bill gates was a cut up. He would always fool aroundin class. He was suspended multiple times but he still had good grades. His mom said "We had to go in for A parent teacher confrence and his locker and desk were always a mess. In high school he was decent at sports. He was small but fast. He was deciding origionally to go to college for law, -
College life
Bill went to harvard university to study law because he wanted to origionally become a lawyer, He usally didn't care about how he looked. He would wear dirty clothes to class and his dorm was always a mess. Also, he wouldnt study at all until the night before, He would study all night and pass his classes. -
MITS Altair8800 Software
During college he still talked to his old high school friend Paul Allen. One day they where looking through a technology magazine and they found an add that needed software for a computer and they called MITS and they hired Bill and Allen to make the software. -
MITS job complete
They Worked for 4 months straight to make the software. They would do the assigned parts when they met. They did most of the work in harvards computer lab, They had make sure everything worked perfect to get paid for it, And eventually it came down to the due date and it worked perfect, They where hired as software managers at MITS. -
MITS Job
Bill and Allen worked at Mits for about 3 years. They left when the ceo of the company sold it to new owners, The new owners disagreed with everything bill and allen did, When they left they had to file a lawsuit to get the rights to the software rights to all the softwares they made, -
Start of Microsoft
When Bill and Allen left MITS they wanted to make their own company. They called it micro-soft, Soon to become Microsoft, They started on making softwares for IBM on their windows computer and desktop. Also, they moved back to Seattle. His company would start out small but soon become big, -
Getting Bigger
By 1987 Microsoft was growing huge, They didnt give their software away for free. They would sell it and make huge profits from it. Soon everybody in America would be useing his software one way or another. He would be huge in the next few years, -
Worldwide Enterpranuer
By 1992 he had a worldwide company, He had software and computers he helped make around the world Microsoft was huge. They hired more employees and upgraded their offices too, He was also very wealthy at this time too, -
Married
In 1994 Bill married an executive of his company. Her name was melinda, And they got married in Hawii on new years, They would soon have kids and move into a huge house. -
new family new house.
In 1996, their first daughter, Jennifer, was born. A year later, Gates moved his family into a $54 million house, It was cutsom designed . Also it was on the side of lake Washington. -
Richest man in the world
In 2005 Bill gates was the richest man in the world. He made windows software and many others. He helped with supporting the computer industry in many different ways. And one way or another you've used his software, -
Today
Today gates is one of the most succesful enterpranuers in the world. Hes creates Thousands of softwares and programs. He was the richest man in the world at one point. And he lives in a million dollar house. Most people would call that success.
