Success Story-2

The story of Bill Gates



William Bill Gates is currently worth about $50 billion as of 2009. His personal life includes being married to Melinda Gates in 1994 to the present. Bill Gates He scored very high on SATs, which would got him into Harvard University. It was there he met his future business partner, and current CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer. Gates later decided to take advantage of the opening of the computer software business, as he saw many computer hardware devices being released with no operating system. Bill Gates said, “When I was thirteen, my school (Lakeside School) installed a teletype machine that connected in downtown Seattle. From that point on, my friends and I spent most of our free time writing programs and figuring out how to make the computer do interesting things.”
Gates had to leave to devote their energy full-time to Microsoft which later became a very successful and thriving company. He had a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable too on every office desktop in every home. He began developing software for personal computers. He made the language BASIC on the first microcomputer, and on 1975, his started the Microsoft Company.

Bill Gates ended up originally in partnership with IBM, who he licensed the use of Windows to use on their computers. At the time, computer companies such as IBM felt there was more money in the hardware of the actual systems, than in the software. Of course, Bill knew that if he only licensed the software to the PC companies, rather than selling it to them, his operating system could be on computers of almost any manufacturer, as long as they all were built similarly to IBM’s PC model, which they were.
Gates has also authored two books, one called “The Road Ahead” which was released in 1995 and was about the computer age and how things were going to change with the invention of the internet and the mainstream use of the internet. The other book written by Bill Gates was called “Business @ the Speed of Thought”, which was released in 1999 and was about business and technology are integrated.
What Bill Gates focuses on now, is primarily what he calls the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, where he is co-chairman. The goals of this charity are to reduce poverty, help healthcare, and expand educational opportunities and knowledge in information technology. So far, the foundation has raised over $25 billion, and will gain even more throughout and after Bill’s life.
In conclusion, Bill was a feisty businessman, which is why he was so successful. He knew how to get what he wanted, and made sure he got it. Although he’s faced some criticism for running what many have called a monopoly, he’s always responded appropriately, and there’s nothing he can do if people caught onto the cheaper technology, which at the time computers were first popular, was from big companies, which ran Microsoft Windows.