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He was born to Howard and Leila in Omaha, Nebraska. He was second of the tree children.
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Jack Welch was born as John Francis Welch Jr. in Peabody, Massachusetts. He was born to John, a railroad conductor, and Grace.
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Warren Buffett graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947.
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Warren Buffett entered the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Warren Buffett transfered to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Warren Buffett graduated from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln at the age of 19 with a bachelor of science degree.
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Warren Buffett graduated from Columiba Business School in 1951. He earned a master of science in economics degree.
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Warren Buffett accepts a job at Benjamin Graham's partnership.
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Bill Gates was born as William Henry Gates III in Seattle, Washington.
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He graduated the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering.
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He joined GE as chemical engineer for its Plastics division in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Bill Gates, at the age of 13, gives his first interests to computers at the Lakeside School.
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He was elected as the company's youngest vice president in 1972.
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Bill Gates enrolled in Harvard University in 1973, originailly thinking of a carerr in law.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-Soft.
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IBM and Mircosoft make a deal. Microsoft did not have a software to work on IBM computers at that time so he bought a software that is similar and made the deal.
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He became 8th chairman and CEO after Reginald H. Jones.
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Jack Welch pulled up the company's market value from $14 billion to $410 billion.
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Microsoft Windows was created. Bill Gates took advantage of Apple who did not license their software.
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Warren Buffett became an official billionaire when Berkshire Hathaway began selling Class A shares.
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He retired GE as CEO.
