Bill Gates BiographyIntroductionIn this biography, we will be covering the life of Bill Gates and what he had to go through in order to make Microsoft. Over the course of his life, he made billions, and today we will tell you how.Who is Bill Gates?William Henry Gates (Birth name) was born in October 28, 1955, at Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and generally known as one of the richest and influential people in the world.
Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1992. And now have three children Jennifer born in 1996, Rory who is born in 1999 and Phoebe who is born in 2002.Child HoodWhen Bill Gates was a child, he was very competitive, curious and a thinker. He studied at a private school called Lakeside school. In that school, Bill Gates excelled at many different subjects, ranging from Math, Science, English Literature and even becoming a good Drama student.
At a young age, Bill Gates was surrounded by many historical events and he was inspired by them. For example, Apollo 11 was meant to send men to the moon, in that operation, a huge computer was involved which cost billions of research dollars in order to function and operate. Gates first encountered a computer when his school got one since computers in that era were very genuine. He taught himself to do basic programming. In 1973, Bill Gates went to Harvey, where he would study mathematics and computer science. However, he was more interested in following his own coding after finding out the opportunity to found his own company.
So he dropped out of Harvard without finishing his course.Failure/ChallengesIn 1970, Bill Gates started a business called Traf-O-Data. The business was about traffic counting. Their idea was simple: cities and counties all over the world needed to conduct surveys about the traffic running on their highways. Reason being is that for many years, cities and countries used the old and inefficient way using a basic mechanical device to do their counting. He told the public that he would change all the manual to make life easier for the workers. Bill Gates and his friends would create a device that would revolutionize the world of traffic counting. However, on the of his first presentation, the device failed to work and his company had no market.
He was forced to abandon all his contractors. With this failure, Bill Gates learned programming skills that would be critical for the making of Microsoft and the fact that success comes with failure.The building of Microsoft In 1976, Bill Gates formed a contract with a company called MITS (Micro Instrumentation Telemetry System) to establish a basic operating system for their new microcomputers. When he was still learning, Bill Gates would review every line of code and be also involved with several aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders. Microsoft`s big break was in 1980 when IBM (International Business Machine Corporation) for a new basic operating system for their computers. In the early 1980’s, IBM was the leading PC manufacturer and was very advanced compared to its competitors. However, increasingly, there developed many IBM PC clones; Microsoft’s worked hard to sell its operating systems to these other companies.
In this way, Microsoft was able to gain the dominant position in the software manufacture during the time where the personal computer started to boom. Since its early dominance, other computer companies found it hard to move Microsoft from the dominant spot because it was the dominant provider of computer operating the software. For example, programs like Microsoft Word and Excel have become the industry standard.WidowsIn 1990, Microsoft released its first version of windows. This was a development in the operating software because it replaced text interfaces with graphical interfaces. It soon became the best seller and was capable to capture the majority of the operating system market share. In 1995, Windows 95 was released, setting new standard features for operating systems. This version of Windows has been the backbone of all future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista.
Throughout the time in his office, Bill Gates was eager to diversify the business of Microsoft. For instance, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer became the dominant web browser, although this was primarily because it came pre-installed on most new computers. In recent years, Internet Explorer has seen its market share slip. The area where Microsoft was never successful is in the area of search engines. MSN live search has struggled to gain more than 5% of market share. With this respect, Microsoft was diminished by Google. Nonetheless, the success of Microsoft in cornering different aspects of the software market has led to many antitrust cases.
In 1998 US Microsoft, it came close to being broken up into three lesser firms. However, on appeal, Microsoft was able to survive as a single firm. Although Microsoft was the dominant computer firm between the 1980s, and 1990s, they are now seen as an aging and declining company – compared to the more dynamic Google and Apple.What Inspires Bill GatesBill Gates inspiration was a 500-year-old manuscript penned by Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci. And at $30.8 million, it was probably a bargain to the Microsoft founder, who considers it a priceless symbol of knowledge. Gates won’t entertain comparisons of his life to that of da Vinci, who conceived of airplanes and helicopters hundreds of years before they were built, but says the great thinker was way ahead of his time.”He had an understanding of science that was more advanced than anybody else at the time,”Gates says, referring to da Vinci’s writings about how water displayed in his private office in Seattle.
What makes the ancient text so valuable to Gates is what it stands for: a quest for knowledge he absolutely embraces and that continues to inspire him.”It’s an inspiration, that one person off on their own with no positive feedback…
that he kept pushing himself…found knowledge in itself to be a beautiful thing”.
AchievementsAs a Billionaire, Bill Gates has won many achievements. For example, in 2010, he won the Silver Buffalo award and the Bower Award of Leadership. In 1992 Bill Gates also won the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and two years later he won the Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society award.
Gates also won the Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Entertainment New Media award.HobbiesWhen Bill Gates was in his 20’s and 30’s. He did not take any vacations or breaks. “I was always the first in the office and the last to leave. Today, I am better at balancing work the work that I loves to do with his foundation and taking a break to spend time with my family and friends”.
One of Bill Gates hobbies likes to play a game called Bridge as he really enjoys playing it with his friend Warren Buffett. The game takes mix strategies and teamwork to do well. Another one of his hobbies is a board game called Settlers of Catan. This is a civilization-building board game that he and his family loves to play.
Bill Gates favorite sport is tennis, he played this sport his whole life. This year, he got to play a match with Roger Federer to help raise money for his foundation. He said it was not the most relaxing tennis game, but it was a whole lot of fun. He also likes to read books because he says that it is one of his favorite ways of relaxing and keep learning. Finally, his last hobby is to travel, so far, Bill Gates has travelled to Tanzania, Kenya, and Zaire. Since he knows it is not possible for everyone to travel halfway across the world, he decided VR videos on his Gates Notes Blog that shows what he is seeing and learning.Other WorkWith his wife, Bill Gates formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates says that this project was inspired by David Rockefeller.
Like Rockefeller, he desired to focus on global issues that the government ignores; he also shows an interest in improving the standards of public school education in the US. He has appeared with Oprah Winfrey to promote this objective. In respect to this charitable foundation, philanthropic activities Gates has also received encouragement from investor Warren Buffet, who has given away 17$ billion, through the Gates Foundation. From 2008, Bill Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests. It is predicted that Bill and Melinda Gates has donated 28$ billion dollars to via their charitable foundation including the 8$ billion to improve global health issues.ConclusionOverall, Bill Gates had a childhood where he was fascinated by computers. Growing older, he had to suffer a massive setback where he loses his business. However, he did not give up, he decided to try again by making a new business called Microsoft.
Later on, he improves Microsoft by creating Windows He was originally inspired by the work of a 500-year-old manuscript penned by Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci and he won quite a few achievements. We also found out that he has hobbies such as tennis, board games, traveling and reading books. Getting old, Bill Gates creates a foundation with his wife and did a couple of big donations in order to help the world.Resourceshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309540/bio https://www.biographyonline.net/business/bill-gates.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-inspires-bill-gates/ https://insidethemindofacomputergenius.weebly.com/achievements.html http://time.com/5066309/bill-gates-favorite-hobbies-relaxing/
