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Bill Gates Timeline

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  • Born

    Born
    Bill Gates is born in Seattle, Washington. His dad was a well-known lawyer while his mother was a teacher

  • High School

    High School
    Bill Gates chooses to go to Lakeside High School when he was 13 years old. He became good friends will Paul Allen, who ended up being the co-founder of Microsoft with Gates later in life

  • College

    College
    Gates finished his time at Lakeside while being a National Merit Scholar and scoring a 1590/1600 on his SAT. He enrolled at Harvard University

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Gates and Allen were intrigued with a computer called the Altair 8800, which inspired them to create a simplified version. This created Microsoft

  • IBM

    IBM
    Microsoft partnered with IBM to make a personal computer

  • Windows

    Windows
    Gates released Windows, which was/is an operating system for PC computers to run on. It is still widely used today as one of the most popular and best systems.

  • Billionaire Status

    Billionaire Status
    Bill Gates becomes a billionaire in 1987. He is the youngest person in history to achieve the status at the time. He was 31 years old.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Bill Gates marries Melinda French. They are still happily married and have three children together

  • World's Richest

    World's Richest
    Bill Gates became the richest man in the entire world with a value of almost 13 billion dollars.

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
    Bill and his wife started this campaign of their foundation to change poverty, school, children and many other positive impacts on a global scale.

  • Stepping Down

    Stepping Down
    Gates stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft. His friend and classmate at Harvard, Steve Ballmer, succeeded him.

  • Warren Buffet

    Warren Buffet
    Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are described as best friends. They have each others phone numbers on speed dial. They created the giving pledge, which advises billionaires to give over half of their wealth. Buffet donated over 30 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

  • Honorary Degree

    Honorary Degree
    Gates is the commencement speaker at the school that he dropped out of in 2007, Harvard.

  • Advertisements

    Advertisements
    Bill Gates appeared in a few different Microsoft commercials to help advance Microsoft. He had famous television star Jerry Seinfeld appear in a commercial with him. Check out the commercial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOohFst9Lc

  • Giving Pledge

    Giving Pledge
    Of his 95 billion dollars in assets, Gates pledged to give away over 99% percent of his wealth to charitable causes.