EXAM IN FIRST QUARTER

SUBMITTED TO:
SUMAYAN, NASRIMAH DINO

SUBMITTED BY:
SERAD, SAIMAH AWAL

The life of successful entrepreneur?

- Bill gates is an American entrepreneur, programmer, investor and philanthropist.
He and Paul Allen co-founder Microsoft which is the #1 software company in the
world.In 2015 their revenue was $110.4 billion. Bill Gates is the second richest
man on the earth with a net worth of $100.6 billion. He was the CEO of Microsoft
until January 2000, currently he is the Technology Advisor to CEO satya Nadella. He
focuses a lot of his time on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that is why he
has taken a less demanding role at Microsoft so that he can focus more on
philanthropy.

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955. His father
is William H. Gates Sr anhd his mother is Mary Maxwell Gates. He has one older
sister Kristi Gates and one younger sister Libby Gates. At the age of 13 he
enrolled in Lakeside School a private preparatory school. While at that school he
took an interest in programming the General Electric system in BASIC and was
excused from classes to pursue his interest.

He built his first computer program on the General Electric machine. Gates meet
Paul Allen at the school and they worked together to find bugs in the PDP-10 system
belonging to Computer Center Corporation. Gates, Paul and two other students wrote
payroll program for information Sciences in exchange for computer time and
royalties. After that it lead on to his school becoming fully aware of his
programming skills, he created a program to schedule students in classes.

At the age of 17 he and paul start a venture called Traf-O Data, to make traffic
counters based on Intel 8008 processors. Gates graduated from Lakeside School in
1973 and was a National Merit Scholar, he scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT. He
enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973 where he met Steve Ballmer. Gates
did not have a study plan at Harvard but spent a lot of time using the computers.
In 1974 he joined Paul Allen at Honeywell. In 1975 the MITS Altair 8800 based on
Intel's 8080 CPU was released. Bill and Paul saw this as an opportunity to start
their own software company.

Microsoft Story
In 1975 Gates read an article in the January of popular Electronics that
demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted MITS, the Creators of the new
microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC
interpreter for the platform. Gates and Allen did not have any written code, they
wanted to gauge the interest of MITS. They met with the MITS president and had
developed an Altair emulator within fee weeks to demonstrate on a minicomputer and
then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration was a success which lead onto a deal
with MITS president o distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC.

Philanthropy
Gates started his foundation the William H. Gates Foundation in 1994 by selling
some of his shares in microsoft, he was inspired by the work of Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller, in 2000 he and his wife merged the three family foundations to
create the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, their foundation is the worlds
wealthiest, with assets valued at more than $34.6 billion. As of 2007 Bill and
Melinda Gates were the second most generous philanthropist in America, having given
over $28 billion to charity.

Find out; What made them success?

* Start as early as possible
* Enter into a partnerships
* You will not make $60,000 a year straight out of high school
* Be your own boss as possible
* Don't whine about mistakes, learn from theme
* Be committed and passionate
* Life is the best school, not university or college
* Be nice to nerds
* TVis not real life
* Life is not fair,get used to it
* Be ready to take risks
* Never fast forward your way to success
* Be proud of who you are
* Be humble at all times
* Take things positively & love learning
* Accepted failures & move on
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