“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.” -Bill Gates
The richest man alive, billionaire Bill Gates has been an inspiration to this generation. Not only did he create Microsoft, and the Xbox, but he is a philanthropist who is donating all his money to a good cause. Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington, William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates) grew up with his father William H. Gates Sr and his mother, Mary Maxwell in an upper middle-class family with two sisters. In 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates and had three children named Jennifer, Phoebe, and Rory.
At the age of 13, at Lakeside School, Gates began to show an interest in computer programing. He starting
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They worked 16 hours a day for 5 years, developing their BASIC software. A big break came when IBM (the leading PC manufacture at the time) approached Microsoft (they dropped the hyphen) for a new BASIC software for its current computer. After that, Microsoft became the leading company for developing softwares. In 1985, Microsoft not only launched Windows 1.0, which turned out to be a huge success, but he also helped Steve Jobs program the …show more content…
In 2002 the foundation helped install 47,000 computers in 11,000 libraries in all 50 states. In 2006, Bill Gates helped persuade Warren Buffett (the 2nd richest man alive) to pledge a large amount of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He pledged about $60 billion over the next 20 years. In 2010, the foundation pledged about $10 billion to help find vaccines for diseases in poor countries. In 2013 Bill helped launch a $5.5 billion effort to demolish polio by 2018. India was later certified polio-free by the world Health Organization. His latest donation has been donating $1 billion to a clean energy