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

Gates was born in 1955, and he grew up in Seattle with two sisters. Their father, william gates, is a lawyer in Seattle. Their late mother, mary gates, was a middle school teacher, a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Washington, and the chairman of the United International Road Organization.

Gates studied in public elementary schools and private lakeside middle schools in Seattle, where he began his career in personal computer software, and began to write computer programs at the age of 13.

1973, in his first year at Harvard University, Gates lived on the same floor as the current Microsoft President steve ballmer. During his stay at Harvard, Gates developed the basic programming language of the first microcomputer-MITS Altair. BASIC language is a computer language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s.

In the third grade, Gates dropped out of Harvard and joined Microsoft, which was founded with his childhood friend paul allen on 1975. They are convinced that personal computers will be a very valuable tool for every office desktop system and every family, and under the guidance of this belief, they began to develop software for personal computers.

Gates' foresight and insight into personal computers has always been the key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates actively participated in the key management and strategic decision of Microsoft, and played an important role in the technical development of new products. He spends quite a lot of time meeting customers and keeping in touch with Microsoft employees all over the world by email.

Under the leadership of Gates, Microsoft's mission is to constantly improve and improve software technology, so that people can use computers more easily, economically and effectively. Microsoft has a long-term development strategy, which can be reflected in its R&D investment of $2.6 billion this fiscal year.

From 65438 to 0995, Gates wrote The Road to the Future, in which he believed that information technology would promote social progress. The authors of this book include nathan myhrvold and Peter Relson, chief technology officers of Microsoft. It ranked first in The New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks, and stayed on the list for 18 weeks.

The Road to the Future has been published in more than 20 countries and sold more than 400,000 copies in China alone. 1996, in order to make full use of the new business opportunities brought by the internet, Gates made a strategic adjustment to Microsoft, and at the same time made a comprehensive revision of the future road. In the new edition, he thinks the interactive network is an important milestone in the history of human communication. The second edition of paperback is also on the bestseller list. Gates donated the income from his manuscript fee to a non-profit fund to support teachers around the world who combine computers with teaching.

Besides computer complex, Gates is also interested in biotechnology. He is ICOS, Chiroscience Group and Chiro Scientist &; Company d? Used to be a shareholder of DarwinMolecular. He also founded Corbis, which is developing one of the largest visual information resources in the world, providing comprehensive digital documents of public and private collections of art and photography works around the world. Gates also invested in Teledesic with CraigMcCaw, the pioneer of cellular phone. The company has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of low-Earth orbit satellites to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services to the world.

In the 12 years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than 800 million dollars to charities, including 200 million dollars to the Gates Library Foundation, to help major libraries in North America make better use of various new technologies brought by the information age. From 65438 to 0994, Gates founded the William H Gates Foundation, which sponsored a series of activities of interest to Gates himself and his family. Gates donated four key areas: education, world public health and population issues, non-profit public art institutions and a regional investment plan-Puget Sound.

Gates 1994 65438+ 10 1 married Melinda French gates, and they have a child, Jennifer Katharine Gates, who was born in 1996. Gates is an avid reader and likes playing golf and bridge.

Bill Gates' famous words

(1) Life is unfair, get used to it;

(2) The world won't care about your self-esteem until you achieve something;

(3) Don't expect too much after graduating from high school;

(4) Don't think that your boss is tough, until you get a boss, he has no term limit;

(5) flipping burgers will not harm your dignity;

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

(7) Your parents have been paying for you, which makes it boring now;

(8) Your school may not distinguish between top students and bottom students, but it has nothing in common with real life;

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

Television is not real life;

Be kind to boring people, and you may work for a boring person.