Bill Gates

By aubreypierce3

  • The beginning

    Bill Gates was enrolled in the Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle. This is where he and Paul Allen met. At this school, he truly got into computers and programming with his friend, Paul. The school noticed his gift with technology, the school asked him to create a computerized schedule of classes.

  • College

    Gates enters Harvard as a pre-law major. He then switches his focus on mathematics and graduate-level computer science.

  • The First Big Gig

    From his dorm room, Gates calls MITS, the makers of the world's first personal computer. He offers to develop software for them. They decide to give him a chance and they paid him $3,000.

  • Youngest Billionaire Ever

    At age 31, Bill Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever due to his work at Micro-soft. This year he also met his wife, Melinda French, at Micro-soft in New York.

  • First Advertisement

    1987- Bill Gates was in a poster advertisement in Microsoft, this was the same year he became the youngest billionaire ever

  • The Year of Accomplishments

    In July, at age 39 and with a fortune of $12.9 billion, Gates becomes the worlds richest man. Later that summer Microsft introduces Internet Explorer to the world. Also Bill Gates book “The Roads Ahead” holds the No. 1 spot for New York Times best-seller for 7 weeks.

  • The Good Samaritan

    Queen Elizabeth ll bestows an honorary knighthood on Gates for his contributions to the United Kingdom. Time names him a “Person of the Year,” along with Melinda Gates, for what the magazine called his “good samaritan” work.