Bill Gates William Henry “Bill” Gates’s climb to becoming one of the richest men in the world was not as easy as people think. Torn between his family’s wishes and his own, the young Gates’s journey toward billionaire status was ended up taking his own career path based on what he wanted to do. Through all the lawsuits and competition, Gates not only prevailed over his competitors in the computer software business, he has also become one of the world’s most influential philanthropists when he founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. William Henry “Bill” Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 to William Henry Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates in the city of Seattle, Washington., he practices lay there until 1989 Mary Maxwell Gates …show more content…
Bill Gates is known as the sultan of software was given the nickname Trey because of him being the third William Henry Gates in his family. His mother had an extremely close relationship with young Bill, she even took him with her when she volunteered to teach at schools. Soon her precocious son would read the world book encyclopedia from A to Z, sometimes his parents would say that they would lose his attention a lot and all he would say was “I’m thinking mother”. Even though people every day would say curiosity killed the cat, it did not kill Bill, he was always wanting to know more about the world around him and both of his parents encouraged this at all times. Young Bill loved testing his mental power in outdoor and indoor games among his favorite bored games were Risk in which the object was world domination. Monopoly was also a big favorite of his where the object on that is that being in the right place at the right time can make you rich. Every summer the gates family went off to their Hood Canal called Cherio, it was here where they hosted their own Olympic style …show more content…
Although Gates always had the luxury of family money he was determined from the start to make his own funds. In the summer of 1972 at the age of 17 Bill went to Washington DC to work as a senate page, his exposure to politics would come in handy, Back home that fall he took a league of absence from school when he and Paul Allen got their first job at a computer company. When he Allen started the idea of their own company Gates parents insisted that he finish high school and then go off to college. Bill graduated from lakeside in 1973 and his parents took great pride in his acceptance to Harvard University, at this point gates destiny was already set in motion and it was computer