Bill Gates is a popular household name, best known for being one of the founders of Microsoft Corporation. One of the most important ways in which we relate to Bill Gates is that we use Microsoft Windows all day as the operating system on our laptops and PC. This is while one does not have an Apple system installed. So, how did Bill Gates build his business?
In this article, let us learn a little bit more about Bill Gates.
The largest software company in the world is Microsoft Corporation. With the success of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world.
It was on 28th October 1955; in Seattle that William Henry Gates III was born. While his father used to be a practicing lawyer, his mother was a community volunteer.
Bill, when young, was known as Trey. He has two sisters, one older and one younger.
As a child, Bill used to be competitive and bright. He enjoyed reading and math. At just 8, Bill would be reading encyclopedias for fun. Grade school failed to amuse him after a while.
His parents chose to shift him to Lakeside, which used to be a privately operated middle and high school. It was at Lakeside that Bill discovered computers.
At just 13, Bill wrote the code for the tic-tac-toe game, which was a software program.
In 1973, Bill joined the Harvard University as a student. Along with his friend Paul Allen, they created software for the first microcomputers.
Bill found astounding success at what he was doing. He dropped out of Harvard and with Allen, founded Microsoft.
In 1981, IBM made the Microsoft software a part of its computers. Nearly every company that was into making PCs followed suit.
The first Windows version was released in 1985. Herein, all information was displayed on tiles on the computer screen, which were also known as Windows.
With the coming of 1990s, the focus of Microsoft shifted towards creating software associated with the Internet. So, we know how Bill Gates built his business.
Bill Gates’ philanthropic ventures
By 1990s, Bill Gates fortune was worth millions of dollars. He chose to give a significant portion away of it away to philanthropic ventures.
Gates and his wife Melinda founded a foundation in 1994 that supported a host of projects from across the world. Included herein was a project focused towards ending polio. In the United States, the couple also funded scholarships and libraries.
In 2008 Gates retired from running Microsoft and started spending more time with his foundation.
