Bill Gates

C L I M M A X I M
 • William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle,
Washington as the only son of William H. Gates (1925–2020) and his first
wife, Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). ) His ancestry includes English,
German, and Irish/Scots-Irish.[24] His father was a prominent attorney and

Biography his mother served on the board of First Interstate BancSystem and the
United Way of America. His grandfather was the president of a national
bank. Gates has an older sister Kristi and a younger sister Libby. He is the
fourth name in his family, but is known as William Gates III The family
lived in the Sand Point area of Seattle in a house that was damaged by a
rare tornado when Gates was seven years old.
 • On January 1, 1994, Gates married Melinda French (Bill first met Melinda in 1987, at a
Microsoft press briefing in New York; she had long worked at his company). They have three
children - Jennifer Katharine (born 1996), Rory John (born 1999) and Phoebe Adele (born
2002).

Personal life • On May 3, 2021, Melinda and Bill Gates announced their decision to divorce. On August 2,
2021, the official divorce took place after 27 years of marriage.

• According to one version, Bill and Melinda's divorce occurred because of Gates's
communication with Jeffrey Epstein, after this whole story surfaced in the media according
to another - because of Bill's dissolute life
 • In 1973, Bill Gates entered Harvard University, where he met his
future partner Steve Ballmer. After 2 years, Gates was expelled and
immediately began creating software. Subsequently, from June 7,
Founding of 2007, Bill Gates will be considered a graduate of Harvard - the
Microsoft university administration will decide to award him a diploma. In the
same month, he will be awarded an honorary doctorate there
 • In January 1975, Paul Allen read an article in Popular Electronics
magazine about the new Altair 8800 personal computer. After reading
the article, Gates contacted the president of Micro Instrumentation and

Founding of Telemetry Systems (MITS), the developer of the new computer, Ed

Roberts, and told him that he and his friend are working on the

Microsoft p.2 software for this computer (although in fact Gates and Allen had
nothing to do with the Altair 8800, but emulated that processor). The
MITS president invited Paul to his office and he demonstrated a
working BASIC interpreter for their computer, and within a few weeks
Paul and Bill were working at MITS. They thought about calling their
company Allen & Gates, but felt that it was more suitable for a law
office, and then Paul suggested
 • — Micro-Soft, from microprocessors and software. In
the credits of the BASIC language interpreter, created by
them at the request of MITS, In 1975, Bill was arrested
for the first time, for speeding and driving without a
Founding of driver's license, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After

Microsoft p.3 which he began to swear with the policeman and he was
put in a “bad” cell, where there were drunkards and it
was not cleaned. Bill made the required one call to Paul
Allen and he collected the last money available to rescue
Bill. "Micro-Soft" was created specifically for the
development of programs for MITS, in the city of
Albuquerque.
 • Within a year of working for MITS, the
hyphen in Gates and Allen's company name
disappeared, and on November 26, 1976, the
Founding of new trademark "Microsoft" was registered

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Paul got 36% of the company's shares, Bill
64%, basically how Bill saw his contribution
to the product.
 • Since 1975, MITS has been distributing an
implementation of the Altair BASIC programming
language developed by Micro-Soft for the Altair 8800
computer. After the paper tape from Altair BASIC was
stolen, it began to be distributed clandestinely in one of
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the computer clubs, which is why Gates and Allen did
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not receive the due money from each copy sold by MITS
. In 1976, many US magazines published an Open Letter
to fans of Bill Gates, who accused computer scientists of
theft and warned that their actions were demotivating
software developers to create new products.
 • In the joint business, Paul Allen was involved in technical ideas
and promising developments; Gates was closer to negotiations,
contracts and other business communications. And yet, the
friends resolved the main issues together - sometimes, as Gates
later admitted, the arguments continued for 6-8 hours in a row.
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• In the mid-1970s, the CP/M operating system was the most
popular operating system for Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 based
computers. In 1977, Microsoft released a new software product -
Microsoft FORTRAN for computers with the CP/M operating
system.
 • In 1980, IBM began searching for suitable operating systems for the
IBM PC personal computer. The choice fell on PC-DOS (the mother
of the owner, Bill Gates, was the chairman of the executive
committee at United Way International, along with two very
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influential leaders of the computer market monster IBM, John Opel
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and John Akers (John Opel, president since 1981, then John Akers,
president since 1985), CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal P-system. IBM
offered the UCSD Pascal P-system for about $450, CP/M-86 for
$175, and MS-DOS for $60.
 • Microsoft did not have its own OS for Intel 8086
processors, so it licensed 86-DOS (QDOS), which was
a 16-bit clone of CP/M, from Seattle Computer
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Paterson, after which, after working on it, it was
completely adapted for IBM personal computers,
earning $50,000. This is how the MS-DOS operating
system appeared and the collaboration between
Microsoft and IBM began.
 • In 1977, Gates was arrested a second time, for running a red light
and, again, for driving without a driver's license.

• In 1980, Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to develop MS-DOS

Founding of Microsoft for IBM. But Microsoft did not meet the deadline and transferred the
p.9 source code to IBM for faster development in 1981. This half-baked
system featured a demo game called "DONKEY.BAS" made by Bill
Gates and Neil Konzen. "DONKEY.BAS" was a tech demo of the
PC-DOS system and the BASIC language, and is the predecessor of
all IBM PC games. In this game, you control a racing car and must
avoid donkeys[13]. In 2012, this game was re-released for Windows
Phone 7.5/8 (free to download) and iOS (costs $0.99)[14].
 • Next, Microsoft is working on a completely
new operating system, the idea of ​which was
taken from Xerox and Apple. Cooperation
with IBM continued and on November 20,
1985, the new Microsoft Windows operating
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system appeared. Thus began the era of
Windows - the operating system that
glorified and made Gates the richest man in
the world.
 • British journalist Gideon Rachman describes Bill Gates as
a very modest person in everyday life and in
appearance[5]. However, the house in which the billionaire
lives has the most modern electronics, and, according to
some estimates, cost him $125 million. The house is
Personal Qualities
located on the shores of Lake Washington and has an area
of ​40 thousand square feet (3720 m²). The “House of the
Future” consists of three interconnected pavilions made of
glass and pine wood. On the hill is a garage for 30 cars. In
the corner of the garage sits the museum's Mustang, his
first car.
 • The first pavilion is for entertaining guests.
The reception hall overlooks the Olympic
Mountains across Lake Washington. A visitor to
the “house of the future” receives an
Personal Qualities​p.2 electronic pin in which his “preferences” are
encoded—movies, paintings, music, television
shows. The system “recognizes” his tastes and
remembers them during his first visit to the
housese.
 • The central pavilion is a library. A giant dome with
wooden inlays hangs over the hall. On the ceiling of
the home library there are quotes from the novel
“The Great Gatsby” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald[5].
Gates reads about 50 books a year[59]. There is a
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trampoline next to the library. Gates loves to jump
on it, believing that jumping on a trampoline, like
rocking in a chair, helps to concentrate thoughts.
There is also a swimming pool, a Japanese bath, and
a trout lake. Gates' main hobby is playing
bridge[5].
 • According to the American economist and Nobel Prize
winner Joseph Stiglitz, Bill Gates is “the best example
of the ideals of the American spirit”: having
Charity
accumulated a fortune, he began to donate large sums to
fight diseases around the world and improve education
in the United States[60].
 • On December 9, 2010, Bill Gates, Melinda
Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a
pledge they called the Giving Pledge, in

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half of their wealth to charity.[61][62]
Gates believes that one should emulate
Charles Feeney in philanthropy[63]. By the
end of 2016, Gates had donated more than $31
billion to charity.[62]
 • In 1995, Bill Gates wrote the book The
Road Ahead, in which he outlined his
views on the direction in which society

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development of information technology. In
1996, when Microsoft was refocused on
Internet technologies, Gates made
significant adjustments to the book.
 • In 1999, Bill Gates wrote the
book Business @ the Speed ​
of
Thought, which shows how

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business problems in a completely
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the fact that Bill Gates' ideas
fit well with the concept of lean
manufacturing.
 • This book has been released in 25 languages ​and is sold
in more than 60 countries. Business at the Speed ​of
Thought received critical acclaim and was featured on the

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and Amazon.com bestseller lists
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 • Gates attended Seattle's most exclusive school, Lakeside,
where he was able to develop his programming skills on
the school's mini-computer. At the age of thirteen, Bill
wrote his first program, the Tic Tac Toe game, in the
BASIC programming language. In eighth grade, during a
Childhood programming class, he met tenth-grader Paul Allen. With
his friends, Gates tested a PDP-10 computer from Digital
Equipment Corporation, owned by Computer Center
Corporation (CCC).
 • When the time allotted for Bill and his friend Paul to work in the CCC
expired, they hacked the program. For hacking computers, four students at
the school - Rick Wayland, Kent Evans, Paul Allen and Bill Gates - were
banned from working on computers throughout the summer. The initiator
of the punishment was the Computer Center Corporation, whose computer
Childhood p.2 the students hacked. After the punishment expired, the students offered the
company to find errors in their software for the opportunity to work on the
company’s computers
 • The company agreed, and Gates and his friends
studied a variety of software source codes written in
languages such as FORTRAN, LISP, and machine
code. This cooperation continued until 1970, when the
Childhood p.3 company went bankrupt. Next year, Information
Sciences, Inc. hired four students (including Bill and
Paul) to write a payroll program
 • The program was needed in the Cobol language, in return the guys received
free working time on the PDP-10. They called their company Lakeside
Programming Group, but were unable to complete the work.

• At school, Gates did not excel in grammar, social studies, and other subjects he
Childhood p.4 considered trivial, but he did achieve top marks in mathematics. By the end of
elementary school, Gates's bad behavior began to worry his parents and
teachers so much that he was referred to a psychiatrist.
 • At age 17, Gates, Paul Allen, and Paul Gilbert
founded Traf-O-Data. The name was coined by
Gates from "jack-o'-lantern" - a jack-o'-lantern.
The company's goal was to create meters to read
Childhood p.5 traffic and generate reports for traffic engineers.
The Traf-O-Data device was sold 1972 to 1982.
Gates and Allen earned $20,000 from this
project[8].
 • December 25, 1972 (Christmas Day) Bud Pembroke,
the one who invited Bill and Paul to work for
Information Service Inc., invited them to work for
Childhood p.6 TRW. A large software project was underway for the
Bonneville Power Administration using the PDP-10.
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