By: Brett
Bill Gates is an amazing person. He is most known for being the co-founder of Microsoft but has done so much more than that. I loved researching him and I learned so much. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. His full name is William Henry Gates, III.
Bill’s parents are named William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His mom died in 1994. He is the middle child. His older sister’s name is Kristi and his younger sister’s name is Libby. As a child, he was small for his age and was bullied. His family was very competitive, and there was always a reward for winning.
In school, he was often excused from class to program computers. Bill and his friends would get in trouble for finding bugs in programs and using that for free computer time. Bill and his friend Kent Evans started helping their school with programming. Kent was Bill’s best friend. When they were Juniors, Kent died in a mountain climbing accident. Bill said it was the saddest day of his life.
For college, Bill went to Harvard. He dropped out after two years and started his first computer software company in 1975 with his friend, Paul Allen. This company become Microsoft. Microsoft started working with IBM for a little while but that fell apart. In 1985, Microsoft released Windows for people to purchase. Bill was very involved in Microsoft until 2006. He left to spend more time helping people and to create charities.
Bill married his wife, Melinda French in Hawaii on January 1, 1994. They have three children and live in Washington. Bill Gates net worth is currently $99.5 billion. He once said that he does not like being one of the richest people because he does not like the attention it brings.
In 2000, Bill and his wife created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation helps provide money for global development and health issues. He and his wife also donate to other charities and organizations and in 2007 were reported to be the second-most generous people. They had given over $28 billion to charity and they said they will eventually donate 95% of their wealth.
Bill Gates seems like a very nice man. He is smart and generous. I had a lot of fun learning about him and everything he did to help create computers as we know them today. I hope you learned something about him as well.
Sources:
Wikipedia, Bill Gates
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