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Bill Gates
The richest man
The Chairman of Microsoft
Charity
Born: October 28, 1955 ) (age 53)
Seattle, Washington
Residence: United States
Alma mater: Harvard University (dropped out
in 1975, honorary degree in 2007)
Occupation: Chairman of Microsoft
Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Net worth▲US$58 billion (2008)
Spouse : Melinda Gates (1994–present)
Children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996),
Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele
Gates (2002)
A businessman
A technologist
A philanthropist
Family and early
childhood
First computing
experience
Roots of business
career
The birth of Microsoft
Begin the company when he is at university
Gates dropped out of Harvard In his junior year
for the company
Bill Gates’ glorious
Microsoft Corp
The most successful software of Microsoft
Sold a million copies in four days
Millions of users
Software used in a billion PC worldwide
SOFTWARE GURU
A businessman
A technologist
A philanthropist
A new job title: Chief Technology Officer
Assume the role of technical architect
Guide the technical direction of Microsoft
Didn’t recognize the revolution of Internet
But soon redirect
A businessman
A technologist
A philanthropist
Only the chairman of Microsoft
No daily work
Devote into charities
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$23.5 billion
Health, education, public access to information
Still to be the richest man in the world?
Can Microsoft keep its status in the threat of
Google?
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up
working for one.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I


think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I
had a chance to read a lot.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look


good.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people


into thinking they can't lose.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the


global village of tomorrow.
Rule 1:
Life is not fair - get Rule 3:
used to it! You will NOT make
Rule 2: £30,000 a year right
out of secondary
The world won’t care school school. You
about your self esteem. won’t be the vice-
The world will expect president of a
you to accomplish company with a car
something BEFORE phone until you earn
you feel good about both.
yourself.
Rule 4: Rule 6:
If you think your teacher If you mess up, it’s not
is tough, wait till you get your parents’ fault, so
a boss. don’t whine about your
Rule 5: mistakes, learn from
them.
Flipping burgers is not
beneath your dignity.
Your grandparents had a
different word for burger
flipping: they called it
opportunity.
Rule 8:
Rule 7: Your school may have
Before you were born, done away with winners
and losers, but life HAS
your parents weren’t as NOT. In some schools,
boring as they are now. they have abolished
They got that way from failing grades and they’ll
paying your bills, give you as MANY
cleaning your clothes and TIMES as you want to
listening to you talk get the right answer. This
about how cool you doesn’t bear the slightest
thought you were. So resemblance to
ANYTHING in real life.
before you go out and
save the rain forest try
helping out at home.
Rule 9: Rule 10:
Life is not divided into Television is NOT real
terms. You don’t get life. In real life people
summers off and very actually have to leave the
few employers are coffee shop and go to
interested in helping you jobs.
FIND YOURSELF. Do Rule 11:
that on your own time. Be nice to nerds. Chances
are you’ll end up working
for one.

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