Bill Gates

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Date of Birth
William Henry Bill Gates III was born on October
28th, 1955 in Seattle Washington.
His parents were William H. Gates Sr. and Mary
Maxwell Gates.

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Education
Bill Gates attended Lakeside School from 1967-1973. There, he
found his love for computers dropping math so that he could spend
more time learning about them.
Bill Gates attended Harvard College from 1973-1975. There he
spent a lot of time using the computers. He then later dropped out
of school in the hopes of starting his own computer software
company with his friend Paul Allen.

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Accomplishments
Bill Gates co-developed the Altair BASIC, which was an interpreter
for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair
8800 and later, S-100 bus computers.
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft along with his business partner
Paul Allen.

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Accomplishments
In 2002, Bill received the Jefferson Award for the
Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.
In 2010, Gates received the Bower Award for Business
Leadership from The Franklin Institute.
Bill Gates received India's third highest civilian honor
Padma Bhushan in 2015 for his foundation's philanthropic
activities in India.
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Awards
National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 1992
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, 1994
Satellite Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution
to Entertainment New Media, 1997
Silver Buffalo Award, 2010
Bower Award for Business Leadership, 2010
Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award, 2013
Bambi-Millennium Award, 2013
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Failures
Before launching Microsoft, Bill was the co-owner of a business
called Traf-O-Data. The company was meant to create reports for
traffic engineers based on the data from roadway traffic counters.
The company was moderately successful but in the end, it ended
up failing.

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Obstacles
Bill Gates hacked into the security of some computers, resetting
the meters and crashing them. As a result, he was banned from
using computers for several weeks.
He promised to make a BASIC (programming language) in three
weeks, however, it took him five weeks to accomplish this task. As
a result of missing the deadline, he missed the first opportunity to
establish his product.
Bill wanted to drop out of college so that he could begin starting
his new company. However, his parents wanted him to graduate. It
took him over a year to convince his parents to allow him to drop
out.
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Risk in Establishment of Business

Microsoft was established on April 4th, 1975. Bill Gates was the CEO.
Microsoft had a partnership with IBM (International Business
Machines Corporation) in 1980 that would let them group
Microsofts operating system with IBM computers.
Microsofts first office was founded on November 29th, 1979, in
Japan.
When establishing a business there are always risks of whether it
will succeed, however Bill Gates was worried that his business
would fail despite the great efforts that he had devoted to it by
dropping out of school.
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Growth of Industry
Microsoft started off as a small company that turned into a
company that is now worth more than 70 billion dollars. Here are
some points on its growth over time.

1975-1985: Establishment of Company

1992-1995: Domination of the corporate market
1995-1999: Overtakes the Internet
Present: 70 billion dollar Company

Bill Gates was CEO of his company from 1975 to 2006. He was
responsible for the product strategy. He was also an executive
member. Bill Gates was very involved in his company, helping it to
grow in any ways that he could.
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Characteristics
Entrepreneurs, such as Bill Gates have a wide variety of skills in
order to be successful. He has many characteristics and skills.

Courage
Determination
Optimism
Willing to fail
Goal Setting
Leadership
Passion

These are just a few of the characteristics that Bill Gates had. It
takes these and a lot more to become a successful entrepreneur.
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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/william-henry-gates-iii-851.php
http://billgates.weebly.com/accomplishment.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/celebs-who-went-from-failures-to-success-stories/
https://billgatescr09.wordpress.com/obstacles-and-solutions/
http://billgates.weebly.com/challenges-amp-failures.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-characteristic-attributes-that-made-BillGates-who-he-is-today

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