1. Childhood
On October 28, 1955, William Henry Gates III (William Henry Gates III), the official name of Bill Gates, was born on the West Coast of the United States. Seattle, Washington. Gates' grandmother gave him the nickname "Trey", which means "three points" in playing cards.
His father, William Henry Gates, Sr., is a well-known local lawyer, and his deceased mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, is a director of the University of Washington, a director of the banking system, and a director of the United Way International. The association's president, his maternal grandfather J.W. Maxwell, had been president of the National Bank. Bill grew up with his two sisters.
2. College life
In 1973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University. Gates scored 1590 (out of 1600) on the SAT (American College Admission Test) standardized test.
Although Gates has a good memory, he has many "bad habits": he often skips class, doesn't like to take a bath, and only eats pizza and drinks soda when programming or playing cards. Became close friends with Steve Ballmer, who lived in the same dormitory. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the MITS Altair, the first microcomputer.
3. Founded Microsoft
On November 26, 1976, Gates and Allen registered the "Microsoft" trademark. They once considered naming the company "Allen & Gates Inc." (Allen & Gates Inc.), but later decided to change it to "Micro-Soft" (Note: the English abbreviation of "Micro Software") and put the middle name in the name. The English hyphens are removed. Allen was 23 and Gates was 21 at the time.
In January 1977, Gates dropped out of Harvard University and went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. There, he found a job writing programs for Roberts, paying $10 an hour. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque, where Gates also located Microsoft's headquarters.
4. Become the richest man
On July 17, 1995, Gates topped the Forbes list of global billionaires, with a personal wealth of US$12.9 billion. Aged 39. Microsoft's sales revenue that year was US$5.9 billion and its employees were 17,801.
In June 1996, Gates became the cover of Wired magazine for the second time. The picture shows Gates wrapped in a bathrobe, but the picture has been processed by Photoshop software. In December 1996, Microsoft's stock price hit a new high, rising 88% year-on-year. Judging from book income, Gates earned as much as $30 million a day that year.
5. Establishment of the Fund
In 1999, Gates and his wife changed the name of the William H. Gates Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The foundation’s mission is to reduce global inequality. In November 2000, Gates became the cover character of Wired magazine for the third time. In this issue of the magazine, "Wired" reveals many little-known stories behind Microsoft's antitrust lawsuit.
On March 2, 2005, Gates received the Knight Medal of Honor from the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom. Previously, Rudy Giuliani (former New York City Mayor) and others had received this medal. An honor. Since then, Gates has been eligible to add the letters "KBE" (KBE) after his name.
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2005 In 2016, when Bill Gates, the world's richest man, celebrated his 50th birthday in London, England, he announced that he would not enter politics and that his huge wealth of tens of billions of dollars would be donated to society and would not be left to his descendants as a legacy.
In the same year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was awarded the Honorary Knight Medal by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in the UK on Wednesday. This medal is mainly used to commend Gates and his wife Melinda for their efforts to eliminate the Commonwealth and other poverty in developing countries and efforts to improve the health of local people.
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