Here are some of our picks to get you in the spirit. William Henry “Bill” Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington in a fairly wealthy family of William Henry “Bill” Gates, Sr. – a successful attorney and Mary Maxwell Gates – a former school teacher, who later became a member of the Board of Directors of the First Interstate Bank.Being a child, Bill Gates already possessed a prospective businessman talent, especially in mathematics. "[76], On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his role at Microsoft to dedicate more time to philanthropy. [20], Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned for the summer Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans, after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[36][24]. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. [54] The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979. [22] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America. The Money Programme’s Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found. [65], Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy from the company's founding in 1975 until 2006. Gates considers climate change and global access to energy to be critical, interrelated issues. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. Kvůli němu si chytří lidé myslí, že nemohou prohrát. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. [88] During the conference, Gates warned that the world was not prepared for the next pandemic, a situation that would come to pass in late 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. He divided his responsibilities between two successors when he placed Ray Ozzie in charge of management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.[77]. [19] In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. Gates read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics which demonstrated the Altair 8800, and he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. ", Gates, Bill. The sales of MS-DOS (the version of DOS sold to customers other than IBM) made Microsoft a major player in the industry. In May 2006, Gates remarked that he wished that he were not the richest man in the world because he disliked the attention it brought. Gates had not offered to transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM because he believed that other personal computer makers would clone IBM's PC hardware. [48], Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. [114], The Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named after the mothers of both Gates and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer, both of whom were students (Ballmer was a member of the School's graduating class of 1977, while Gates left his studies for Microsoft), and donated funds for the laboratory's construction. În timpul carierei sale la Microsoft, a fost cel mai important deținător de acțiuni al companiei până în 2014. In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity. … I plead guilty… rudeness to Boies in the first degree. [40] He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. [44][45], Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems[46] presented in a combinatorics class by professor Harry Lewis. France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. 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Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from, In 2015 Gates, along with his wife Melinda, received the, 1983: Steve Jobs hosts Bill Gates in the Macintosh dating game at the Macintosh pre-launch event (with, Gates, Bill. [30], At 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school,[31][32] where he wrote his first software program. [120], In November 2017, Gates said he would give $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital that seeks treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer stayed and graduated magna cum laude. Gates has expressed concern about the potential harms of superintelligence; in a Reddit "ask me anything", he stated that: First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. [89] In March 2018, Gates met at his home in Seattle with Mohammed bin Salman, the reformist crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia to discuss investment opportunities for Saudi Vision 2030. Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates is a 2019 three-part documentary web television series created and directed by Davis Guggenheim.The series's premise explores the mind and motivations of Bill Gates, a former CEO of Microsoft and founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with his wife.. William Henry III was born on 28 th October 1955, Seattle, Washington. [41][42] He chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. "[167], Gates also said: "I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. [173][174] Since 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings has declined due to a fall in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst and the multi-billion dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. Prepared By.... Vijay Goti 15BME042 Institute of Technology Nirma University Biography of Bill Gates. Can you power a house with a ShakeWeight? [124] Federer and Gates played against John Isner, the top-ranked American player for much of this decade, and Mike McCready, the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam. He gained a reputation for being distant from others; an industry executive complained in 1981 that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls. [12], Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. Bill Gates as a child was very competitive, curious, and depth thinker. In the early days, Bill Gates would review every line of code. [24] The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing". The episode on which he appeared was appropriately entitled, "The Gates Excitation. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. [9] He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. The company continued its rapid growth and the stock price soared. [123], On April 29, 2017, Gates partnered with Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer in play in the Match for Africa 4, a noncompetitive tennis match at a sold-out Key Arena in Seattle. His father was named William H. Gates II, but he is now generally known as William H. Gates, Senior to avoid confusion with his son. His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company. He pursued his passion through college. [61] They did, making the IBM-compatible PC, running DOS, a de facto standard. Allen named their partnership "Micro-Soft", a combination of "microcomputer" and "software", and their first office was in Albuquerque. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demonstration, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. MITS hired Allen,[54] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with him at MITS in November 1975. When they met again a month later, Gates "won or tied every game. In response to a question about his greatest fear when he looks 50 years into the future, Gates stated: "... there'll be some really bad things that'll happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them on the scale of, say, a million people that you didn't expect to die from a pandemic, or nuclear or bioterrorism." He has urged governments and the private sector to invest in research and development to make clean, reliable energy cheaper. Ask me anything. [50] Gates dropped out of Harvard that same year. In February 1976, he wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90% of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for any professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software. He argued with examiner David Boies over the contextual meaning of words such as "compete", "concerned", and "we". He is the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix. [84][85][86][87], In an interview that was held at the TED conference in March 2015, with Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, Gates said he would "highly recommend" Nick Bostrom's recent work, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. The 2000 film starring Denzel Washington tells the true story of a newly integrated Virginia high school football team in 1971. [38][39] He was a National Merit Scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. [62] The press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the IBM PC. [180] In October 2017, Gates was surpassed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. Find out by spending all of Bill Gates' money! The big break for Microsoft came in 1980 when IBM approached them for a … Bill Gates Quotes “The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.” Personal Life. [53], Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. Microsoft employed Paterson to adapt the operating system for the PC[60] and delivered it to IBM as PC DOS for a one-time fee of $50,000. [51] He explained his decision to leave Harvard: "if things hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. Gates has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio with stake in various sectors[188] and has participated in several entrepreneurial ventures beyond Microsoft, including: Gates was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on January 31, 2016, in which he talked about his relationships with his father and Steve Jobs, meeting Melinda Ann French, the start of Microsoft and some of his habits (for example reading The Economist "from cover to cover every week"). If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring that energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I'd pick the energy thing. Bill Gates lahir dari seorang ayah yang bekerja sebagai pengacara perusahaan dan ibunya menjabat sebagai anggota dewan direktur di First Interstate BancSystems dan United Way. Born William Henry III is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and widely known as one of the most richest and influential people in the world. Overall, they raised $2 million for children in Africa. Bill Gates Childhood Story: William Henry Gates III was born on the 28th day of October 1955 in Seattle, Washington. [92] That same year, Gates became an Advisory Board Member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates Gates… [130], Gates married Melinda French on a golf course on the Hawaiian island of Lanai on January 1, 1994. The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return. He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders. Bill scored 800 points in the mathematical part of the intelligent test and it is not accidental he has a talent and showing the best result. [170][171] Gates's days are planned for him on a minute-by-minute basis, similar to the U.S. President's schedule. From film school reject to Hollywood legend, take a look at Steven Spielberg's career so far and explore what lies ahead. In August of the following year, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. "An exclusive interview with Bill Gates. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were very good friends, Gates gave $150 million to help the struggling apple company in 1997. [109], Melinda Gates suggested that people should emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, who sold their home and gave away half of its value, as detailed in their book, The Power of Half. [67], Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and the managers described him as being verbally combative. 5. There is no biography movie of Bill Gates but you will get so many documentaries about Bill Gates. [11][82], Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in a substantial interview that was published in the March 27, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Bill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero! He also berated them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk. It grants funds to learning institutes and libraries and supports scholarships at universities. [127] Another initiative was Breakthrough Energy, a group of investors who agreed to fund high-risk startups in clean energy technologies. [93], On March 13, 2020, Microsoft announced Gates would be leaving his board positions at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate his efforts in philanthropic endeavors such as climate change, global health and development, and education. "[80] Despite Gates's denials, the judge ruled that Microsoft had committed monopolization, tying and blocking competition, each in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.[80]. [35] After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, Gates and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. The company's stock was worth $520 million. [111][112][113], Gates has also provided personal donations to educational institutions. Gates began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 at the Lakeside School. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. [175] In March 2010, Gates was the second wealthiest person behind Carlos Slim, but regained the top position in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires List. They have three children. Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for US$30.8 million at an auction in 1994. [56], IBM, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. The four students formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money. William Henry III was born to attorney, William Henry II and teacher, Mary Maxwell Gates in Seattle, Washington, USA. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. This new technology uses nano-crystal dyes called quantum microdots. [130], Gates spearheaded two initiatives that he announced at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. [16] On November 15, 2019, he once again became the richest person in the world after a 48% increase in Microsoft shares, surpassing Bezos. PC Magazine asked if Gates was "the man behind the machine?". He headed the rating of the wealthiest people in the world 18 times. [131], Gates's views have been criticized as undermining strategies to aggressively deploy existing solar and wind energy technologies, which have also led to innovation and to plummeting costs. [54] Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. Gates approved of many decisions that led to antitrust litigation over Microsoft's business practices. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. [108], Gates delivered his thoughts in a fireside chat moderated by journalist and news anchor Shereen Bhan virtually at the Singapore FinTech Festival on December 8, 2020 on the topic, “Building Infrastructure for Resilience: What the COVID-19 Response Can Teach Us About How to Scale Financial Inclusion”. Bill Gates married Melinda French and has 3 children. Gates was a millionaire until age 30 he became a billionaire by age 31. I was officially on leave."[52]. A few weeks later, Gates and Allen proposed using 86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Bill Gates belonged to the wealthy family of William Henry. Gates envisions that a breakthrough innovation in sustainable energy technology could drive down both greenhouse gas emissions and poverty, and bring economic benefits by stabilizing energy prices. He has not officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100,[75] but he wrote code that shipped with the company's products as late as 1989. [176][177] Slim retook the position again in June 2014[178][179] (but then lost the top position back to Gates). "[71] The target of his outburst would then have to defend the proposal in detail until Gates was fully convinced. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. [61], The contract itself only earned Microsoft a relatively small fee. Gates owned 45 percent of the stock himself, which was worth $234 million. Gates also identified innovation as the "real driver of progress" and pronounced that "America's way better today than it's ever been."[83]. [24], At 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.