Bill Gates

Entrep 2013Arlo Cristobal

Early Life William Henry Gates III

October 28, 1955 (age 57)in Seattle, Washington, US

Estimated met worth: $66 B (2nd in the world)

Father was a lawyer

Mother was part of the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way

Took an early interest in computers on his 8th grade and was banned with Paul Allen when caught exploiting bugs in the computer to obtain free computer time

Wrote computer program for school – which he modified to be placed with mostly female classmates

Scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT

Dropped out of Harvard to start a business with the support of his parents

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship at an early age At 15, Gates and Allen went into business together,

developing a program to measure the traffic flow in Seattle, which netted $20,000

Recognizing and seizing opportunity

December 1974 – Gates and Allen saw a magazine article about the world’s first microcomputer

Called the president of the company claiming that they had written a code, which they actually have not done

Started his own business with Paul Allen

Gates oversaw the business details but still wrote codes and personally reviewed all of their developments

Microsoft The Man Behind The Machine Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4,

1975

Micro-soft to Microsoft

Developed MS-DOS for IBM, while retaining the right to license the program to other computer makers

IBM’s hardware were copied by other companies but the Microsoft had a copyright to MS-DOS

Microsoft's sales soared from $7 million in 1980 to $16 million in 1981

Launched the first retail version

of Microsoft Windows on

Nov. 20, 1985

"Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested in-and everything we need to know."-Bill Gates

Microsoft The Man Behind The Machine Was sued by Apple after the release of

windows, which Apple lost du to no merit in 1990

Adopted by third party developers

Sold at a rate of 1 million copies per month in 1993 and was in 85% of the world’s computers

Posted sales of $19.7 B in 1993, with Gates already amassing a personal wealth of $90 Billion

Accused of anti-competitive business approach (monopoly)

Consummate geek + hard-driven businessman

"Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested in-and everything we need to know."-Bill Gates

Philanthropy

Reducing inequity is the highest human achievement

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Established in 2000 Gates transitioned to a part-time job in

Microsoft to take a full-time job in their Foundation

As of 2007, has given over $28 billion to charity

On December 9, 2010, Gates, investor Warren Buffett, and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's CEO) signed a promise they called the "Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time

Interesting Facts Value of Gate’s property - $125 million, and the annual property tax is

$991,000

Owns Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci – bought for $30.8m

In 1999, Gate’s wealth reached $101 B

Bill Gates earns $250 Us Dollars every second, that’s about $20 million a day and $7.2 Billion a year!

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http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/news/companies/1203/gallery.greatest-entrepreneurs.fortune/3.html

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197526

http://www.ltbn.com/hall_of_fame/Gates.html

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060807-gates-commencement.html?page=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Post-Microsoft

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Thank You!

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

Bill Gates