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Birth of Bill Gates
Bill Gates is born to an upper middle class family in Seattle Washington. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio. -
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Bill Gates Childhood & Teenage Years
Bill Gates displayed sign of competitiveness from an early age. He was a good student but seemed withdrawn and bored with school work. He began spending a lot of time alone, questioned her authority, troublesome but also was a kid that read a lot and spent a lot of time thinking. He spent a lot of time in Washington University were he was constantly working on computers. He met his future business partner Paul Allen during these years Netflix Documentary: Inside Bills Brain: Decoding Bill Gates -
Bill Gates Drop Out of College
After attending a private high school in Seattle Washington he was accepted to Harvard University but decided to drop out with the whole intention of following his vision for Microsoft. His parents were very supportive and allowed him to follow his own path. Netflix Documentary: Inside Bills Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
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Bill Gates & Paul Allen Found Microsoft
Bill Gates after dropping out of Harvard got together with his business partner Paul Allen and founded Microsoft. The started in the state of New Mexico and Bill Gates had a vision that Microsoft would allow for every household to own a computer. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio. -
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Microsoft Early Success
Bill Gates pushed himself and the employees he surrounded himself with to always exceed expectations. He decided to move his company back to his hometown Seattle Washington were he began to expand. He released Windows 1.0 and Windows 95 during this timespan. During this period of time he began to have a fallout with Paul Allen since Paul Allen was more interested in other things and he did not see himself growing along with the company. Microsoft went public and Bill Gates became a Billionaire. -
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Bill Gates Leaves CEO Position
Bill Gates decided to leave the CEO position and hire Steven Ballmer. Ballmer was the 30th employee and the company and was good with handling the business side of Microsoft while Gates took on the innovation part. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio. -
Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates founded the Gates foundation in 2000 commiting a large sum of his wealth to the foundation. This foundation was operated with equal part of Melinda and Bill, the would make decisions together and both of their opinions mattered. During the Microsoft time, Melindas voice was not heard much and this was something that allowed both of them to feel as equals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSL-iIskEFU
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Gates Foundation Helps Libraries
In 2002 Bill and Melinda Gates through their foundation donated 47,000 computers to multiple libraries across the 50 states. The number of libraries with computers at the was 27% and after this donation the number went up to 45%. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Bio -
Warren Buffet
Bill Gates doesn't like talking to people he does not consider smart so when he was given the opportunity to speak with Warren Buffet he declined. He eventually ended up speaking with Buffet and realized he was one of the smartest persons he had ever met. Warren Buffet went on to pledge a big chuck of his wealth to the Gates foundation. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio. -
Gates Venture Fund
Gates founded a venture capital in order to offer start ups that want to change important problems that are aligned with Bill Gates. Netflix Documentary: Inside Bills Brain: Decoding Bill Gates -
Gates Foundation Declares Decade of Vaccines
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Eradicate Polio
Bill Gates is fascinated by learning about new topics. He was very interested in why polio was still around how it was affecting so many people in poor countries. He accomplished it in India but when he arrived to Africa he quickly saw multiple obstacles. The culture did not allow him to enter and when he finally did he began to create a massive change until an African gan broke out of jail and created caos. Bill had to leave the continent. -
Gates vs Federer
Bill Gates and Roger Federer teamed in a March in Africa in order to bring in a charity game for the people. He raised money for the Federer Foundation looking to help Africa. Bill Gates was athletic growing up and enjoyed playing sport thanks to his competitive nature. His favorite sport was tennis. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio. -
Dairy Queen
Bill Gates is currently living a life where he is sharing his knowledge with us, enjoying his time away from Microsoft and focusing on friendship. Gates and his long life friend Warren Buffet teamed yp to serve ice cream in a local Dairy Queen. Around this same time a picture started going around the web of Gates standing in line while he wait his turn in a humble hamburger truck. Many people saw this a sign of humility. -
Paul Allen Death
Paul Allen died of a long term battle with cancer. When this happened Gates was devastated since he felt like he still needed to repair his relationship with Allen. He openly said he wished he could have had more time with in order to fix their friendship. Gates, Bill. “Q. How Do I Create a Gates Notes Account?” Gatesnotes.com, www.gatesnotes.com/Bio.
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