Bill Gates profile: William (Bill) H. Gates is the founder, former chairman and CEO of Microsoft, the world's leading provider of personal computer software. Gates' net worth : $56.4 billion.

Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a lawyer in Seattle. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a high school teacher, a trustee at the University of Washington, and chairwoman of United Way International.

Gates attended public elementary schools and private Lakeside Middle School in Seattle, where he began his career in personal computer software and began writing computer programs at the age of 13.

In 1973, Gates entered his freshman year at Harvard University, where he lived on the same floor as Steve Ballmer, who is currently the president of Microsoft Corporation. While at Harvard, Gates developed the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair. The BASIC language is a computer language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s.

In the third grade, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote himself entirely to Microsoft, which he founded in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by their belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool for every office desktop system and every home, they began developing software for the personal computer.

Gates' vision and insight into the personal computer have been key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates actively participates in key management and strategic decisions of Microsoft and plays an important role in the technical development of new products. A significant portion of his time is spent meeting with customers and maintaining contact via e-mail with Microsoft employees around the world.

Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission is to continuously improve and improve software technology and make it easier, more cost-effective and more fun for people to use computers. Microsoft has a long-term growth strategy, which is reflected in its $2.6 billion investment in research and development this fiscal year.

In 1995, Gates wrote "The Road to the Future Book", in which he believed that information technology will drive social progress. The book's authors also include Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. It ranked first on the New York Times best-seller ranking for 7 consecutive weeks and stayed on the list for 18 weeks.

"The Road to the Future" has been published in more than 20 countries, with more than 400,000 copies sold in China alone. In 1996, in order to make full use of the new business opportunities brought by the Internet, Gates made strategic adjustments to Microsoft. At the same time, he comprehensively revised "The Road to the Future". In the new version, he believed that interactive networks are the key to human communication. A major milestone in history. The paperback reprint also topped the best-seller list. Gates donates his royalties to a non-profit fund to support teachers around the world who combine computers with teaching.

In addition to his computer complex, Gates is also very interested in biotechnology. He is a board member of ICOS and a shareholder of the British Chiroscience Group and its wholly-owned subsidiary Chiroscience R&D (formerly Darwin Molecular) in Washington State. He also founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world's largest visual information resources, providing comprehensive digital documentation of art and photography from public and private collections around the world. Gates also invested with cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw*** in Teledesic, which has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of low-Earth orbit satellites to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services around the world.

In the 12 years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than $800 million to charities, including $200 million to the Gates Library Foundation to help major libraries in North America. Make better use of various new technologies brought about by the information age.

In 1994, Gates founded the William H. Gates Foundation, which sponsors a series of activities of interest to Gates and his family. The four focus areas of Gates' donations are: education, world public health and population issues, non-profit public arts institutions, and a regional investment plan-Puget Sound.

Gates married Melinda French Gates on January 1, 1994. They have a child, Jennifer Katharine Gates, born in 1996. Gates is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf and bridge.

Bill Gates's famous sayings

(1) Life is unfair, you have to adapt to it;

(2) This world is not fair before you achieve anything. I don’t care about your self-esteem;

(3) Don’t expect to have too much after graduating from high school;

(4) Don’t think your boss is strict before you have a boss, and the boss has no tenure Restricted;

(5) Burning beef patties will not undermine your dignity;

(6) Your predicament is not your parents’ fault;

(7) Your parents have been paying your bills to become boring now;

(8) Your school may not distinguish between top students and bad students, but this has no similarity to real life. place;

(9) In life, you have no summer vacation to rest, and no one can help you discover yourself;

(10) TV is not real life;

(11) Be kind to boring people and you may end up working for a boring person.

Late 1950s ●Gates was born in a middle-class family in Seattle, a city on the West Coast of the United States. He was thin and clumsy when he was a child. In the early 1960s, ●Gates received a good modern education at the private Lakeside School, and began to come into contact with computers and learn the BASIC language. ●At the age of 13, Gates could already write computer programs. At the age of 14, he served as the chairman of a computer-related organization in the school. His computer genius has been recognized by teachers and students. 1970---1971 ●When Gates was 16 years old, he established a traffic data company with his good friend Allen, using Intel 8008 chips to design an urban traffic monitoring system. The next year, at the age of 17, Gates sold his first program to a school and earned $4,200. 1972----1973 ●19-year-old Gates studied at Harvard University and studied the most advanced science and technology in the world. 1974 ●Intel launched the 8080 chip, which is 10 times faster than the 8008. Gates took the lead: he worked day and night for 8 weeks to equip the Altair 8800, the world's earliest microcomputer, with the BASIC language, which was just born. A new era for the PC software industry, changing the entire industrial structure! 1975 ●In this year, an event that will forever be recorded in the history of world technology development occurred in the United States: Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in Seattle. Gates became CEO at the age of 20. 1977 ● Gates' career is soaring, and the Microsoft brand has set up a banner in the global IT industry. 1980 ●Microsoft launched the MS-DOS system, which became an instant hit. DOS has since become an inevitable built-in system for almost all personal computers. 1986 ●Microsoft stock went public at $21 per share, raising $61 million; Gates personally became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. 1990 ● Gates released the Windows 3.0 operating system, with global sales exceeding US$1 billion. 1995 ● Gates released windows95 and decided to strongly support and strengthen the development of the Internet. 1997 ●Microsoft has 25,000 employees in 58 countries, a turnover of US$11.3 billion, and a market value of US$158 billion. Gates' mansion "Future House" has been completed. It is located on the shores of Lake Washington, surrounded by mountains and water, covering an area of ??3,700 square meters and costing about US$100 million. 1998 ● Gates releases Windows 98. The IE browser has become popular all over the world, and surfing the Internet has long been a commonplace for Americans. 1999 ●Microsoft's market value reached US$407.2 billion, ranking first among the world's 1,000 largest companies, far ahead of traditional ace stores. Gates continues to sit firmly on the throne of the world's richest man.