MR.

BILL GATES
 INTRODUCTION
FULL NAME William Henry Bill Gates III

NATIONALITY American

HOME TOWN Seattle, Washington

OCCUPATION Chairman of Microsoft

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 EARLY LIFE
FAMILY UPPER MIDDLE CLASS

BORN & GREW UP SEATTLE,WASHINGTON (28 Oct. 1955)

FATHER William H. Gates II, PROMINENT LAWYER

Mother Mary Maxwell Gates,TEACHER AND CHAIRPERSON OF THE

UNITED WAY CHARITY

ELDER SISTER KRISTI

YOUNGER SISTER LIBBY

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EARLY LIFE

 At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School.

 The Mothers Club at the school bought an

ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of
computer time on a General Electric (GE)
computer for the school's students.

 1st program written by Bill Gates on this

computer was TIC-TAC-TOE.
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 EARLY LIFE
 Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four
Lakeside students to write a payroll program
in COBOL, providing them computer time
and royalties.

 Atage 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen,

called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters.

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 EARLY LIFE
 Gates graduated from Lakeside School in
1973.

 He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and

enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of
1973.
 In his sophomore year, Gates devised an
algorithm
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 BILL GATES AND THE MICROSOFT
CORPORATION
 In
1975 the company Micro-soft was formed, which
was an abbreviation of microcomputer software.

 The
success of Microsoft began with the MS-DOS
computer operating system that Gates licensed to
IBM.

 Gatesalso set about protecting the royalties that he

could acquire from computer software

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 BILL GATES AND THE MICROSOFT
CORPORATION

 Microsoft launched its first retail version of

Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985

 In August 1985, the company struck a deal with

IBM to develop a separate operating system called
OS/2.
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 PERSONAL LIFE

 Gatesmarried Melinda French from

Dallas, TX on January 1, 1994

 CHILDREN:
 JENNIFER KATHARINE (born 1996)

 Phoebe Adele Gates (born 2002)

 Rory John Gates (born 1999).

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 PROPERTY
 Also among Gates's private acquisitions is the
Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da
Vinci, which Gates bought for $30.8 million at an auction
in 1994

 Gates was number one on the "Forbes 400" list from 1993
through to 2007 and number one on Forbes list of "
The World's Richest People" from 1995 to 2007 and
2009.

 In 1999, Gates's wealth briefly surpassed $101 billion,

causing the media to call him a "centibillionaire". 10
 PROPERTY
 The Gates' home is an earth-sheltered house in the side of a
hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina.

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 PROPERTY
 According to King County public records, as of
2006 the total assessed value of the property (land
and house) is $125 million, and the annual property
tax is $991,000.

 His66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2). estate has a 60-foot (18

m) swimming pool with an underwater music
system, as well as a 2,500 sq ft (230 m2). gym and a
1,000 sq ft (93 m2). dining room.

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 PROPERTY
 Gateshas several investments outside Microsoft,
which in 2006 paid him a salary of $616,667, and
$350,000 bonus totalling $966,667.

 Hefounded Corbis, a digital imaging company, in

1989.

 In 2004 he became a director of

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company
headed by long-time friend Warren Buffett
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 BILL GATES NET WORTH
 With an estimated wealth of $53 billion in 2006, Bill
Gates is the richest man in the world.

 According to the Forbes business magazine in 2004

Paul Allen, Microsoft cofounder was the 5th richest
man in the world with an estimated $21 billion.

 Steve Ballmer was the 19th richest man in the

world at $12.4 billion.

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 PHILANTROPHY
 Being the richest man in the world has also enabled
Gates to create one of the world's largest charitable
foundations in 2000, The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, after merging the "Gates Learning
Foundation" and "William H. Gates Foundation".
 BillGates continues to play a very active role in the
workings of the Microsoft Company, but has
handed the position of CEO over to Steve Ballmer.
Gates now holds the positions of "Chairman" and
"Chief Software Architect".
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 BILL GATES RECEIVES A KBE

 In March 2005 William H. Gates was bestowed with

the KBE Order (Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his
services in reducing poverty and improving health
in the developing countries of the world.

 TheKBE Order of the British Empire is the second

highest Order given out, but it is only an honorary
knighthood
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RECOGNITION
YEAR RECOGNITION

1994 named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers

magazine

1998 ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time

1999 ranked number two in the Upside Elite 100

1999 Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list

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 RECOGNITION
YEAR RECOGNITION

2001 was included in The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in
media"

2004-06 one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as
one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006.

2005 Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer
Bono as the Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts.

2006 he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time"

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BILL GATES CRITICISM

 With his great success in the computer

software industry also came many criticisms

 Many of the largest technology companies

have fought legally against the actions of
Microsoft, including Apple Computer,
Netscape, Opera, WordPerfect, and sun
Microsystems

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BILL GATES INTERESTING FACTS

 1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's

about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother

to pick it up because during the 4 seconds he picks it,
he would've already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion dollars, if

Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself, he will
finish it in less then 10 years.

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BILL GATES INTERESTING FACTS

 4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still

be left with US$ 5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he

doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income
i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to
become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th

richest country on earth.

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BILL GATES INTERESTING FACTS

 7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can
make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.

8. Bill Gates is 55 this year. If we assume that he will live for

another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to
finish all his money before he goes to heaven.

9. If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time

their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill
Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years..
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