Entreprerneurship
BY Mr. kalra
Bill Gates
Entreprereur
Gates is one of the richest men on Earth
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A look at one of the most famous
entrereneurs in the Tech era
There have been many entrepreneurs, some have been famous othbers have died without changing the world. Bill Gates is an American busnessman, inventer, investor, programer, and philanthropist. He is one of the most important men on earth and the richest to boot. He co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates.His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for the United Way. Gates' education started in Lakeside School,a prestigous school in Washington. There he learned coding, and exchanged his services for computer time. Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with "a disproportionate number of interesting girls." At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Paul Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the US House of Representatives.
In 1973 Gates graduated from Lakeside and scored a1590 on his SATs, which premitted him to go to Harvard College, where he dropped out of in 1974.
In 1975, Gates and Allen, talked with MITS a company that had released a new computer, and were trying to get them to gauge interest. As MITS was happy with their product Paul Allen got hired into MITS and Gates worked with him. They named their partnership "Microsoft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque, and Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, Gates personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
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