...1955 in Seattle, Washington D.C. Name of this person is “William Henry Bill Gates ІІІ” Childhood The only son of William H. Gates II, Bill Gates the Third lived the life of any other normal Seattle boy. His mother, Mary Gates, was a strong advocate. She was a schoolteacher, served on the board of regents at the University of Washington, as well as serving as chairwoman of the United Way International. Young Bill attended a public elementary school and shortly thereafter found his passion for computer programming at the age of thirteen. Unbeknownst to his lawyer father and schoolteacher mother, their son was destined to become one most significant force behind the growth of person computing and the software industry as a whole. Education Early on his life, it was apparent that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped his forefathers rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer’s abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. His parents recognized is intelligence and decided to enroll him in lakeside, private school known for its intense academic environment. This decision had far reaching effects on Bill Gates life. For at Lakeside, Bill Gates was first introduced to computers. At this time, computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and a few other Lakeside students (many of whom were the first...
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...pick only two famous thinkers, the two that stand out in my mind are Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here we will look back and discuss their contributions to society as a whole, the problems or issues that they resolved, and how they were able to come up with their solutions. Contributions to Society Self made multi-billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. Everyone in America recognizes the name Bill Gates; it is hard not to be famous when you are the richest self-made man in America. The contributions to society made by Mr. Gates are numerous, but most notable and arguably his best is his company Microsoft, the world’s largest software production company. From a small, no name company formed in 1975 Bill Gates worked countless hours and in no time was able to bring his company to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Eventually, Bill Gates knew that his money and his wife could help the rest of society as his mother had done as a civic leader. In the year 2000, Bill and his wife Melinda formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation’s primary goal was to further the support of education and health in low-income communities around the country. In 2006, he stepped down from full time at Microsoft to dedicate more time to the foundation. Bill Gates and his wife have donated $28 billion dollars to charity to support their cause (Bill Gates, 2012). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in...
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...Introduction The role of leaders in the development of human society was traditionally extremely important. It is an undeniable fact that successful leaders contributed to the general progress of society even though not all of their actions were good. Nevertheless, regardless the actions of a leader, he/she stimulates his surrounding to certain actions or even counter-actions which inevitably lead the group or the entire society to progress. At the same time, it is necessary to underline that the notion of leadership is quite large and may be applied to different spheres though, in principle, the concept of leadership remains unchanged and does not really depends on the field where it is applied. In other words, leaders are present in all fields, including not only politics, but also economy, science, technologies, culture, etc. Obviously, leadership is equally important to all spheres. This is why it is possible to speak about the significance and the role of a personality of leaders in history. Basically, this does not necessarily mean the interpretation of the role of a leader in terms of the world history, but it rather implies his/her significant to the epoch and his/her influence on the surrounding people. What is more important is the fact that leaders possess a great power to influence people, fully reveal their potential and realize their greatest dreams. This means that leaders can realize themselves but they can also stimulate other people to fully reveal their...
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...Bill Gates, known to be the richest man in the world and cofounder of Microsoft. Gates is an entrepreneur and businessman born October 28, 1955. Gates Revealed that he was stepping downward as Microsoft’s administrator to focus on charitable tasks on his foundation. The Bill and Melinda infrastructure. As of today there are about 1.3 billion people who use Microsoft. Gates makes more than approximately 180 million dollars a day. Bill Gates motto is success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He was born at Henry Gates hospital in Seattle, Washington. Bill gates is the son of William H. Gates. Gates was only 13 years of age when he started to have an interest in computer and made his first computer program similar to pac-man as you can see he is quite smart. Gates has a relatively diverse ancestry, his family genes include German, Irish, English, and Scot-Irish. Gates scored 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs. This shows how smart he really is. Gates had many achievements and was giving many awards like Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and was also rewarded Bower award for business leadership. Bill and Melinda Gates jointly received India's third highest civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2015 for their foundation's philanthropic...
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...William “Bill” Gates Omar Ford-Bey CIS 131 Mr. Campbell 22 April 2012 William(Bill) H. Gates is the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle attorney. The late Mary Gates, a school teacher at the University of Washington regent, and chairman of United Way International. Gates came from a family of entrepreneurship and high spirited liveliness. Early in his life, Bill was very bored at school and his parents knew it so they were always trying to feed him more information to keep him busy. Bills parents finally decided to put him in a private school where he would be challenged more. The Lakeside private school had just bought a new computer when Bill arrived and he was immediately hooked. Within a week he had surpassed the knowledge of the computer teacher at Lakeside. Learning the BASIC programming language was a breeze for Bill and he was soon writing his own programs. Bills love for computers and math led him to a new place around his neighborhood that was renting computer time. He got an arrangement with the owners that he would get free computer time if he found things that would make the computer crash. During this time Bill met Paul Allen his business partner for the rest of...
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...Jammie Hoffman Advanced Comp& Economics Research Paper 4/19/16 Bill Gates & the Success of Microsoft An entrepreneur is a risk-taker, someone who takes chances to pursue a goal. Entrepreneurs must understand what consumers want and must create a product that drives these consumers towards making a purchase. Understanding the patterns of an economy is a rather difficult task to handle, and only a select few are about to flourish with the way the economy functions. Either an entrepreneur will risk everything and fail, or they will manage to overcome the odds and create a project that could change the face of our economy. Many entrepreneurs fail to make a product successful and hardly any is as recognizable as the creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Bill (William) Gates was born on October, 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington to an upper- middle-class couple. Gates was the second of three children. Gates developed an early interest in computers and computer software after his parents enrolled him in a private school known as the Lakeside school (Foley). While at Lakeside, Gates met his eventual business partner, Paul Allen. Gates, 15 years old at the time, and Paul, who was two years older, proved their enthusiasm for computers by creating a software system known as “Traf-o-Data.” The objective of this system was to track traffic patterns throughout the city of Seattle. “Traf-o-Data” brought in $20,000 for the two young entrepreneurs (Editors). The system did not become...
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...Famous Thinkers Paper Bill Gates Bill Gates, formally known as William Henry Gates III, was the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation in 1975. It was not until the 19080s when this company really became a known corporation. Bill Gates was known for being an aggressive person that went after his ideas and did think twice about what his peers opinions were of him. Bill Gates found himself in the middle of a lawsuit and parted from the company in 2008 [ (Oxford World Encyclopedia, 2012) ]. Bill Gates began working on programming at the age of 13 and was able to show people that his innovations and business style were successful and profitable. Many people would assume that someone as successful as Bill Gates would be a straight A student that worked and studies hard. On the contrary Bill Gates and his partner spent most of their time in computer labs and studied just enough to get passing grades. It wasn’t long before both of them dropped out of college and formed Microsoft. Bill Gates and his partner met with IBM and he was so young that people at the meeting thought that he was an office assistant not the co-owner of Microsoft that was writing complex computer problems. Bill Gates and his ideas opened the door for computer systems and change how personal computers would operate. They were made more user friendly and accessible to everyone. The personal computer would soon be in everyone’s home and Microsoft Office would soon be in every business’ office [ (bio.True Story...
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...Bill Gates is a great, unique, and successful individual who has come really far in life and is currently retired after, so many years building up his incorporation to what he wanted it to be. He is known to be the founder/CEO of Microsoft Incorporation which has become a huge success to this day and continues to strive and become bigger as the days pass. It earned itself the title of being the world's most largest PC software company and also has become the main rival of Apple Inc. However, this is not the only thing Bill Gates has become famous for, but also for being the most wealthiest man alive making billions with ease as his incorporation is still running and whatever it receives he gets. He doesn't spend all this money on himself; however,...
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...Bill gates is a business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world. When Bill Gates was first enrolled at Harvard University, he thought about pursuing his career as a lawyer as his dad was also a lawyer. But his freshman year at Harvard, he spent more of his time in the computer lab than in class and this made him more interested in computer field than being a lawer. In February 2014, Gates announced that he would be stepping down as chairman of Microsoft in order and move into a new position as software architect. He positioned himself as chief software architect so he could concentrate on what was for him the more...
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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Paper HSM/260 Ashley Turner August 26, 2012 Angela M. Jennings “Right now, just over 1 billion people—about 15 percent of the people in the world—live in extreme poverty. On most days, they worry about whether their family will have enough food to eat. There is irony in this, since most of them live and work on farms. The problem is that their farms, which tend to be just a couple acres in size, don’t produce enough food for a family to live on.” Bill Gates Bill and Melinda Gate believe in using their fortune and fortunate circumstances, to help others in the United States and in the world. They believe that when each person that lives in the United States, has the opportunity to develop their talents, society will thrive. They also want to help the rest of the world as well. Their Global Health Program harnesses advances in science and technology to save the lives of those in poor countries. They want to focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but are not getting enough attention and funding. Using the latest tools—seeds, vaccines, AIDS drugs, and contraceptives, for example, they have made impressive progress. “If we don’t make these success stories widely known, we won’t generate the funding commitments needed to maintain progress and save lives”, (Bill Gates Foundation, 2012). With the programs that have been funded and produced by Bill Gates and others on his developmental team, we can help...
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...Famous Thinkers Paper PHL/458 11/4/2013 Famous Thinkers Two famous thinkers are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and William “Bill” Gates. I admire these two famous thinkers for the impact and influence they both have had on society. These two famous thinkers have contributed and positively affected many lives past and present. Both famous thinkers had to overcome hardships and use their creative minds to deal with challenges, obstacles, and issues. These two have changed and created their own history and legacy, which will be written in history books for the world to see. Contributions to Society Born Michael King Jr. in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most recognized civil rights leader in history. His father was Baptist minister and raised him to follow in his footsteps as a minister as well. During the civil rights movement Dr. King headed a crusade to help Americans to gain the same human rights, despite their origin or skin color. Dr. King had numerous contributions to society and is remembered for his non-violent movement. Dr. King was honored most for his heroic civil rights activism in the United States as well as a prophet of peace and justice in a world torn by Vietnam. Dr. King led the fight in 1956 to desegregate the bus lines in Montgomery, Alabama. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference appointed him the head position, which was to create racial equality throughout the country using non- violence. Dr. King was most famous...
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...BILL GATES: America’s Richest Harvard Drop-Out William H. Gates was born on October 28, 1955. The only son of William H. Gates II, Bill Gates the Third lived the life of any other normal Seattle boy. His mother, Mary Gates, was a strong advocate for education. She was a schoolteacher, served on the board of regents at the University of Washington, as well as serving as chairwoman of the United Way International. Young Bill attended a public elementary school and shortly thereafter found his passion for computer programming at the age of thirteen. Unbeknownst to his lawyer father and schoolteacher mother, their son was destined to become one most significant forces behind the growth of person computing and the software industry as a whole. In 1973 Gates left home and began his freshmen year at Harvard University. It was here he made the acquaintance of Steve Ballmer, a fellow student who lived just down the hall from Bill. During his studies at Harvard, he continued his computer programming. According to the Bill Gates web site, he developed “a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer-the MITS Altair.” After approximately two years of study at Harvard, Gates dropped out to pursue his vision of making computer technology a medium to be used by the average person on a daily basis. With the help of his boyhood friend, Paul Allen, Microsoft was born. Microsoft, destined for huge growth would later need a chief executive officer...
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...Reflections on World’s Leadership Mr. Bill Gates (Good Leader) Mr. George Walker Bush (Bad Leader) Presented to: Prof. Dr. Hayfaa A. Tlaiss Prepared by: Sarwat Praveen Student Number: 3518229 Section-2 & Group-2 Table of Contents MR. BILL GATES 2 INTRODUCTION2 ABOUT HIS LIFE…2 LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF BILL GATES4 GROWING AND LEARNING4 HAVING VISION5 CARING ABOUT PEOPLE5 MY PERCEPTION, WHY BILL GATE IS A GREAT LEADER…6 BILL GATE IS MY INSPIRATION7 MR. GEORGE WALKER BUSH8 EARLY LIFE AND CAREER8 MY PERCEPTION, WHY HE IS BAD LEADER9 GEORGE BUSH FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM…9 FEW GOOD STEPS TAKEN BY GEORGE BUSH10 GEORG BUSH SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM10 GEORGE BUSH POST PRESIDENCY11 HOW DID HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE IMPECT ME AND MY LEADERSHIP STYLE 11 REFRENCES…13 Mr. Bill Gates INTRODUCTION William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is an exceptional leader in the business field. Being named the richest man in the world for the past decade by Forbes magazine, it was clear that Bill Gates must be an outstanding business leader taking his company Microsoft from a small firm that was founded in 1975 to a global company that is worth...
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...most renowned programs in the world, and is the richest man in the world. This man is known as Bill Gates. Mr. Gates is best known for creating one of the most used programs in the world which is commonly known as Microsoft. This program has generated him billions of dollars in profits which Gates donates larges amounts of it to charity. He is currently the richest man in the U.S. and the richest man in the world. However, Gates did not always have this fabulous life and he had to work through tons of problems in order to be the successful entrepreneur he is today. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in October 28, 1955 in a middle to upper class...
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...Bill Gates: The Charity Mogul With a current net worth of $91.2 Billion, Bill Gates is the second richest man in the world as of 2018 only behind Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos. Bill Gates had achieved some great things during his lifetime. The biggest thing he did was found Microsoft along with Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 when he was only 19 years old. He also graduated from Harvard. Anyway, with that much money, he could just relax his entire life. He could have been much richer if he saved up his money. But, Bill Gates, is not like that, he is a kind-hearted person who uses his money for good like starting his own foundation. Bill Gates knows what needs to be done to develop the human society. The most famous thing that Bill Gates has done besides founding Microsoft was when he and his wife founded the “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” in 2000. This foundation helps improve education systems, and help bright young minds to aspire to be great at what they are doing. They also help cure diseases. “We invest heavily in developing new vaccines to prevent infectious diseases that impose the greatest burden” (“Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation”). Bill Gates said. They even use their money to invest in new technologies such as vaccines to save lives. The “Bill & Melinda...
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