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Bill Gates
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Born
William Henry Gates III is born to William Henry Gates II and Mary Gates. He was raised in Seattle. -
enrolled in Lakeside
Gates is enrolled in the Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle where he becomes friends with Paul Allen. -
Intrest
Gates starts showing major interst in computer technology at age 13 -
Development
at the age of 15 Gates and Allen created the "Traf-o-data." -
Harvard
Gates enters Harvard as a pre-law major, but soon shifts focus. He quickly runs through the university’s most difficult mathematics and graduate level computer science courses -
$3,000
Gates calls MITS the maker of the world’s first personal computer. He offers to develop software MITS eventually accepts and buys it for $3,000. Gates takes his first absence from school to start working on the software he refers to as Micro-Soft -
1 million
Microsoft’s year-end sales exceed $1 million. Gates gains a reputation for being tough, but focused -
publlic
Microsoft headquarters move again, this time to nearby Redmond, Wash. Shortly after, the company goes public. -
billion
At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meets his wife Melinda French at a Microsoft event in New York. -
donation
Gates decides that he wants to work more with Bill and Malinda forndation and donates $31 billion to the foundation.
