BILL GATES

Also knows as William Henry Gates II

Born October 28, 1955
Education Harvard University
Founder Microsoft software
Born and raised in Seattle Washington

 Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he

helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s
payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-
counting systems to local governments.
 American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and
philanthropist.
 He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s.
 Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest
people.