Introduction
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are two of the most well-known names of our generation for being the co-founders of two very large corporations. Steve Jobs being the co-founder of Apple, also the founder of Pixar and NeXT. Bill Gates, most known for being the co-founder of Microsoft, which is the biggest software company in the world. Though, without a doubt, both of these men were very successful in their professional lives for mainly the same thing and similar in their ways, but very different.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 13, was when he first found his love for computers His senior year, he and his friend, Paul Allen developed their own company called the Traf-O-Data. However, with Allen being in college, Traf-O-Data was not a success. The business did, however, give the two a keen insight on a few things such as, how to be effective entrepreneurs and give them more experience.
Gates was later accepted into Harvard University. After a while, Gates quit Harvard to pursue his dream in software. In the 1970’, the boys got their first break when a company in Albuquerque, New Mexico called MITS were interested in the boys’ ability to write software. Not long after, the boys were hired. In 1975, Microsoft was created. By 1978, Gates moved MITS to Bellevue, Washington so he could be close to home. As the head of Microsoft, Bill Gates guided the company to gross $2.5 Million, at only the age of 23.
Over the time frame of three years, the growth of Microsoft increased tremendously. Income jumped from being four million, to sixteen million. In 1981 Gates was assigned not only the chairman, but the president of the board. By 1983, thirty percent of the world was run...
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...ower part of middle class, also considering the fact that he was adopted. Bill Gates was more of a wealthier family who could afford to be put in a private school. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were also rivals whenever they were trying to stay #1 out of the software companies. Unfortunately, Steve Jobs passed away. Before Jobs passed, he retired in August. Bill Gates on the other hand is still living and retired in 2008.
Conclusion
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are two of the most dedicated and committed co-owners of this time. The valid points that I made in my paper back up the fact that they worked hard toward their dream of owning their own business, both of then succeeded, leaving a mark on the software business forever. These two men are very inspirational and by their works, it proves that you have to work hard toward your dream, to get the outcome that you want.
At just twenty years old, Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He is now the richest man in the world with over $85.2 billion to his name. So why did Microsoft end up being way more successful than any computer program like it? The answer is because of the free enterprise system, and competition. Gate's product was considered new and innovative at the time, which made customers want to try it out.
After having helped found what would be the world’s most popular and largest software company in 1975, Bill Gates officially found himself to be the richest man alive at the ripe, young age of only thirty-one. Gates had never imagined that the thirteen year old boy who loved to program computers in his parent’s garage would one day find himself to be considered the world’s wealthiest man alive, having a total net worth of $76 billion. Having began on his own, tinkering with computers and computer software, Gates later created the seed of Microsoft, or what was originally called Traf-O-Data in the summer of 1972. (Fast Facts) It wasn’t until two years later, with the help of his co-founder, Paul Allen that Microsoft was born, transforming the technological world in ways that the people had never seen. The birth of Microsoft changed the ways of old computers, making way for faster newer and more innovative technology, along with bringing on a strong competition with their rival company, Apple Inc. With this grand cooperation, Bill Gates was also accumulating a large mass of money, gradually finding himself to top the charts of the Forbes World Billionaires List. (Fast Facts) Despite being well known for his contributions to Microsoft, Bill Gates’ most profound impact on the American culture was in medical and educational advances provided by The Gates foundation, paralleled by his philanthropic views and aid in the lives of the both poor and wealthy.
Bill Gates, the younger of the two was 15, born in Washington to two relatively successful parents Bill H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxell Gates. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors at two major companies. At an early age Bill showed signs of great leadership qualities and later proved these true, he excelled in school and always brought a competitive fire to everything which usually was mistaken for anger and stubbornness.Bill was considered a genius; He made a 1590 on his SAT, devised an algorithm for pancake sorting for unsolved problems that was published and applied to modern formulas, and later Bill enrolled in Harvard. Bill graduated in 1973 and was off to Harvard. While at Harvard, Gates majored in law, with plans in following his dad’s ...
William Henry Gates III was birthed in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. His parents were William Henry Gates, Jr. and Mary Maxwell. Bill’s father was a prominent lawyer in Seattle, Washington, and his mother was a school teacher, University of Washington regent and the United Way International chairperson. Bill Gates’ upbringing was that of privilege and opportunity, wanting for nothing while growing up. Bill was innately curious and quite intelligent drawing him to computer technology early in life. While in the seventh grade, at age 13, he wrote his first computer program. This was when he met his best friend and later business partner, Paul Allen. Gates went on to form a group in high school of programmers that automated their school’s payroll system and then started a company called Traf-O-Data (Bill Gates, 2014) Traf-O-Data sold traffic counting systems to local city governments all before he finished high school (Bill Gates, 2014).
To begin with, Steve Jobs and John D. Rockefeller had very similar starting points. Both Jobs and Rockefeller grew up in modest families and showed signs of interest in their jobs at a young age. Jobs showed interest into machines before high school and took multiple lectures on the topic. During these lectures, he met Steve Wozniak and together they created a company that primarily designs video games. They later joined a group of computer addicts who
Becoming the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is one of the most influential men. Not only is Bill Gates one of the most influential figures in the world, but he is also one of the most influential figures in the business world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates was born into already well established family. “His father, William Henry Gates Jr., was a successful lawyer, and his mother, Mary Maxwell, was chairwoman of United Way International.”(Stevenson).
Microsoft is a computing software company. Microsoft was made and founded on April 4th 1975 by two young men who were captivated by computers. Their names were Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The homebase was in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft became one of the most famous and successful companies in the world. “Microsoft was one of the pioneers responsible for bringing the personal computer into the lives of millions of people.” (Musolf). The company has had such a great impact that now the name “Microsoft” is now virtually synonymous with computer software.
As a kid, Steve Jobs was an unstable child, he was very wild and thought school was useless until 4th grade. That year Imogene “Teddy” Hill was his teacher, he was soon obsessed with school(his teacher bribed him with candy bars). He skipped the 5th grade and went to Crittenden Middle School (Moisescot). Steve Jobs wasn fond of school until late elementary, the person that got him interested was his teacher Teddy, who had a way of persuading him(candy bars). Bill Gates on the other hand liked school from the start, he loved reading and was very well educated throughout his years. Steve Jobs was very interested into electronics in his childhood, the way he was introduced with this type of engineering was by his dad. When Steve Jobs was young he was fascinated by mechanics. He and his father would building electronic devices in their garage. This experience is what drove him to have more interest in mechanics (TheFamousPeople.com). Once Steve Job’s dad had introduced him into electrical engineering, he was fascinated by what he could create. Instead of developing an interest in electrical engineering early on, Bill started to understand mechanics later on in life than from his childhood. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs grew up in completely different conditions than one another. First of all, “Bill Gates grew up in an upper middle-class family with his older sister, Kristianne, and younger sister, Libby.The Gates family atmosphere was warm and close, and all three children were encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence”(Biography.com). “The Santa Clara county, south of the Bay Area, became known as Silicon Valley in the early 1950s after the sprouting of a myriad of semiconductor companies. As a result, young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends”
Bill was born on October 28th, 1955 his parents are William H. Gates Sr and Mary Maxwell Gates. Since he was a child he was interested in computers. “His education started at a local private school known for tough academic standards. When he was first introduced to computers he would skip class to work with the machine. After getting in trouble he gave up computers to focus on education for a year. He dropped out of harvard after his sophomore year because of his success with computers”(Mcguire 1). He was so interested in computers he dropped out of Harvard one of the best schools in America to pursue computers. Due to all of Gates knowledge on computers he was easily able to get a job “Gates' first professional job came soon after he and his computer friends wrote The Problem Report Book, a 300-page manual they compiled after going through the garbage bins of Seattle's Computer Center Corporation (CCC) and finding all the programmers' errors. CCC officials were so impressed with the boys that they gave them jobs”(Mcguire 1). Gates was easily able to get a job by just finding errors in a computer software because of how much he knew about computers. Bill Gates past knowledge of computers helped him become who he is
Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion, Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30,000%. However, Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007).
Gates was born to the full name of William Henry Gates III on October 28th 1955 (Bellis). Gates was born to two sisters, Libby who is younger and Kristianne who is older. William Henry Gates III got his name from his father William Henry Gates Sr., Gates Sr. fell in love with Mary Maxwell at the University of Washington. Gates grew up in a very loving family; him as well as his sisters were pushed to do well in school. The most important person he had growing up, was his Mom. She had a love for charity work, and would take Gates with her to help out. He would later credit his love for philanthropism to his mother (Bill… Biography). Although Gates had a loving and somewhat ordinary family, what he would do was far from ordinary.
The lives of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have influenced American society immensely through their ways of innovation, generosity, and creativeness towards all the tasks they have embarked on. Many people look over Mark Zuckerberg and all he has done, but everybody knows all the accomplishments of Steve Jobs. Although Jobs is no longer with us, his improvements to technology and innovation are still around today helping society function in not only the business world. But also the entertainment world right along with Zuckerberg, who continues to contribute to society with improvements to Facebook and his major charity contributions.
He was born with a long family history of business, politics and community services. His grand father was the vice president of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. Early in life it was obvious that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence and competitive spirits that helped the rest of his family rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially in math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment.
Although Steve and Bill are competitors, there are similarities between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Both of them are the most successful CEO’s in the world. Though they were college dropouts, but they still achieved a lot of success in their own way. Steve was a very innovative man. As the English proverb goes by “ Have no fear of perfection - you will never reach it.” by Salvador Dali. No matter how many times he failed, he could develop things from his own idea and turn them into a successful product. In 1979 Apple’s first product was introduced, people like it very much because of its simplicity and innovative ideas. Later on in year 1980, the company showed a tremendous performance, where its share rose by 32% (Messa, 1998). Similarly, Bill Gates was also like that, but just that Steve was in a company which makes hardware prod...
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