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People who changed the world
William Henry Gates III
alias Bill Gates
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Bill Gates, full name William Henry Gates III, was born to family of company attorney and teacher and member of the board
of directors for First Interstate Bank. Apart from that his mother,
Mary Maxwell Gates, served on the position of member of national
board for international non-profit organization United Way. So Bill
got an extraordinary good family, financial and moral background
thanks to he became a student of the prestige private high school
in Lakeside in his early age and later also of the well-known Harvard College.
Even during the study at high school his interest in electronic
devices showed itself. In 1970’s the computers were only at the
beginning of their way which not even today sees its end. Young
Bill gained already at that time the job in one of the local computer
companies which enabled him the access to mini-computer PDP10. Work with it became so interesting and valuable for Bill and
soon, in his 17 years, he was able to put together the full program
for school schedule creation. For this program he got a grant of
4200 USD which in that time meant a meaningful amount of money.
In 1973 he enrolled at Harvard College where he met Steve Ballmer, the later CEO of Microsoft. He also brought another
acquaintance from high school, Paul Allen, with who he created
the interpreter of programming language Altair BASIC for the first
commercial successful computer Altair 8800. Already here we can
find the basis of the current Microsoft Corporation.
Gates is filling this need in an uncommon extent. With his wife he
leads Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which size afflicts more than
20 different humanitarian aims. Among them are battle against
diseases in countries of the third world including HIV, pneumonia,
malaria and tuberculosis, help to people without home, development of new drugs, control of tobacco industry and financial help
to poor people.
The foundation was established symbolic on 1st January 2000
to indicate that close before the end of the 20th century very wealthy people should also share their wealth with those who had not
an easy life. The turn of 20th and 21st century became the most
significant for Gates in his life, because his big business was taken
over by other gifted people and he started to fully devote to altruism. However, he has kept an analytical thinking and the effort to
look to the future from now on, therefore his foundation solves
not only the consequences but also the reasons of human misery.
Almost without competitor is the effort of foundation to improve the lifes of people in countries of the third world through
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