One of the most known names in America, Bill Gates; the most influential man in computer software, and one of the most influential business men of the 21st century. Other than the creation Microsoft, many people know him for having an exceptionally bright childhood, and later in his life, as a huge supporter of world health and disease prevention. Though most people only know him for founding Microsoft, he has also made many other life achievements throughout his years, and the list still grows as he supports research into curing diseases like polio, malaria, and tuberculosis. This man had already become a millionaire before his late twenties, and held the title of richest man in the word for many years after that. In the right place, at the …show more content…
Lakeside School private school where Bill took classes, had recently received a computer lab where the students could work on the computer. He and Paul Allen, an upperclassman at the school, would spend most of their free time in this computer lab. At age thirteen he and Paul Allen, fifteen at the time, had already written their first program to play Pong. His parents and the principle at his school recollect that many nights Bill would sneak out of his house and go to work in the computer lab, sometimes spending all night working on understanding how it worked and what he could do with …show more content…
After he left Microsoft in 2008, and assigning a CEO to take care of the day to day things, he became Chairman of Microsoft. He retired from Microsoft to put more of his efforts into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which dedicates itself to supporting education, world health, and investment in low income communities. Bill Gates says that he wanted to defeat diseases in poverty stricken counties, and to do this he had to leave Microsoft. Bill has not only set these goals, but has also brought new creations to help people in these countries, including the funding of creating a thermos to keep vaccines in without electricity, and toilets that do not require plumbing. These inventions already greatly help the people in these poor countries, who otherwise would never have anything like