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Birthday
Born in Seattle, Washington -
1st Accomplishment
Bill Gates creates BASIC -
1st Job
Bill Gates gets a job at Bonneville Power at age 16. -
1st New Job
Bill Gates starts a company focused on collecting traffic information. -
SetBack #1
Bill Gates and his childhood friend start traf-o-data, a comppany that is destined to fail. -
College
Bill Gates went to Harvard university -
2nd Job
Bill Gates and Paul Allen start microsoft -
Set Back #2
Bill Gates had to drop out of Harvard university, -
Windows
Microsoft releases first retail version of Microsoft windows -
Retirement
Bill Gates retires -
Net Worth
Bill Gates is worth around 81.1 Billion USD -
Personality
Bill Gates was always willing to accept criticism and he believed that learning from failure was the best way to learn. Yet despite this he was surprisingly optimistic and was always focused on his goals.