William Henry Gates Accomplishments

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William Henry Gates III is the creator of technology, the first thing that comes to our mind when we hear William’s name is Microsoft, that is because he built it. William Henry Gates the II is born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th 1995. He already started being interested and experimenting on Software’s and Computers at the age of 13 at the Lakeside School. He grew up in a worm hearted middle-upper category of family with two sisters. William Henry Gates was very into risks for example at board games or his excellence at Monopoly showed that Bill Gates was intelligent. Bill was also a reader and spends lots of time on encyclopedia and reference books. His parents were also worried about their child, not because he had a lack of effort …show more content…

In 1975, Allen and Gates created a company called Micro-Soft, a mixture of ‘micro-computer ‘and ‘software’. With Microsoft, Allen and Gates started with a risk, but paid of at the end. Microsoft’s BASIC software became famous with computer hobbyists who had pre-market duplicates and were recreating them for free. Gates stated that only 10 % of the people actually paid for the BASIC that Gates created inside the Altair Computers. People were also just stealing the software and sharing it with friends, which Gates found obnoxious and saw it under the category of stealing, especially it was software that he created and just have be there to be sold not to share. In 1976 Gates send a reclaimed letter saying that “it would prevent software from being written” to the computer hobbyists. Without any change, the letter was pointless, but Gates stuck to his beliefs. Ed Roberts sold the Company to another Computer company. The relationship between Gates and Roberts was always resulting in fights and arguments. Gates and Allen were on their own, and sued the new owner of the company for the rights of there …show more content…

Gates placed himself to the top of the business, CEO of Microsoft, as Gates was very keen and had a lot of business sense. Bill Gates reached an amount of 2.5 million Dollars. Bill Gates reached only the age of 23, during that period of time.Bill Gates had stunning capabilities, he did not only have a very broad business sense he was also a very good speaker. Many abilities put him to the top of the Microsoft company (CEO), being the spokesperson. Most of the time when Microsoft shipped products to other companies he double checked the codes and or might have even rewritten them. As time passed on Microsoft worked for companies like Intel, IBM or Apple doing hardware and components. Bill’s mother was the one that helped him to get in touch with IBM as his mother was a businesswoman with lots of connections and highly respected by people. In November 1980, IBM was searching for programming that would work their forthcoming (PC) and drew nearer Microsoft. Legend has it that at the initially meeting with Bill Gates somebody at IBM confused him for an office associate and requesting that he serve