Achievements of Bill Gates

1. HE ESTABLISHED MICROSOFT, THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COMPUTER

SOFTWARE COMPANY

Gates dropped out of Harvard wanting to be at the forefront of computer software

business. He soon co-founded Micro-soft (later named Microsoft) with Paul Allen and in

over a decade and a half the duo built the most successful software company in the world.

2. HE WAS NAMED AS THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST SELF-MADE

BILLIONAIRE AT 31

In the 1987 issue of the Forbes magazine, Bill Gates was listed among the 400
richest people in America. He was estimated to be worth $1.25 billion and was the
world’s youngest self-made billionaire to be recognized by the magazine. He was 31
years old. The honor would be later held by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at
the age of 23 in 2008.

3. HIS COMPANY CAME UP WITH WINDOWS 95

Although MS DOS had established Bill Gates’s Microsoft among the most successful
and leading companies in the technology revolution, they were yet to give their
finest and biggest offering – Windows. It was arguably the game-changer in
personal computer software. Windows 95 was released to enthusiastic customers
in the August of 1995 and turned out to be the operating system (OS) that changed
everything. Windows is currently installed in high majority of computers (some
estimating it close to 90 percent) in the world.

4. HE DID NOTABLE CHARITY WORK THROUGH BILL AND MELINDA

GATES FOUNDATION
Established in 1994 as William H. Gates Foundation, his foundation was later relaunched as
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 after combining 3 family foundations and
Gates donating stocks valued at $5 billion. The foundation aims at improving healthcare,
expanding education opportunities and reducing extreme poverty. It is considered among
the largest and most notable private foundation in the World holding close to $50 billion in
assets. 

5. GATES IS AMONG THE PIONEERS OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

REVOLUTION

The PC would do exactly that and make the computer personal with user friendly tools or

software like Windows, Office, Paint and many others. Thus computing, which was remote

and foreign to most people, would become a personal and easy experience. Establishing

Microsoft in the early days of microcomputers, its founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen

dreamt of putting a PC on every desk and every home. A dream that would propel a small

company of just 30 people to a multi-billion global force that employs 124,000

individuals and affects millions of lives as the leading software company in the world; and

Bill Gates has been a pioneer of this change.