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Bill Gates Born
Bill Gates was born into a family with a farther as a attorney and a mother who was a school teacher -
Lakeside
Gates enrolled into Lakside school, this was a exclusive provate school in Seattle. This is where Bill and Alllen first meet eachother. -
Harvard
Gates entered Harvard to become a laywer but soon his moved his focus to another career. -
MITS
This was the first idea Gates had was to be the maker of the first worlds personal computer. He contacts Altair to talk about the idea, first not liking the idea, but evently accepting it. -
Microsoft "The Begining"
Gates and Allen, after working very hard and long on the development of software, the idea of Microsoft comes into prospetive and the trademark is made. -
Gates takes a break
Gates takes a leave of absence from Harvard to set up Microsoft. -
Microsofts revenue
Microsofts sales reach one-million dollars in the first year. -
Microsoft rights
Microsoft buys the rights to own the "DOS" company and renames it MS-DOS. -
Allen is at risk
Allen leaves Microsoft due to developing Hodkin's disease. -
Bill and his money
Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meetes his future wife at a Microsoft event in New York. -
Corbis
Gates found corbis an art and photography company from public to private collections. -
Wedding
Gates marries Melinda and the couple goes onto have three children. -
Money
Gates becomes the worlds richest man with a fortune of 12.9 billion dollars. -
Bill leaves
Gates steps down of CEO of Microsoft and Gates former dorm mate steps up and takes over the company. -
Time to share
Gates announces that his role as the executive at Microsoft will end in the next two year. His idea is to spend more time working with the foundation. -
Money loss
Gates lost his spot as the richest man on earth, held for 13 years on the forbes list. -
Software
As of 2014 Microsoft is the worlds most used software coming in at 314 billion dollars in revenue.