Bill Gates Research Paper

Born on October 28th 1955, growing up unlike most kids Bill Gates didn’t want to be a firefighter or an astronaut he had bigger things in mind for what he wanted to do when he got older. He was seen as an awkward no body with brains but he constantly told teachers he would become a billionaire at some point in his life doing what he loved to do. Later marrying his longtime friend Melinda French, they raised 3 children together Jennifer Katharine, Phoebe Adele and Rory John. As his career blew up his friendship with Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, fell through when Jobs repeatedly accused Gates of stealing from Apple. This did not put a dent in Gates career as he is now known as the richest man in the world.

Early Years

Bill Gates was born

“Bill Gates IV” but was named “Bill Gates III” because his father felt as though the name made him seem rich when at the time grew up with litter money so he went ahead and changed it to “Bill Gates Jr.” The name was passed down to a fairly awkward kid, Bill Gates, not many friends and kept to himself so much that his parents feared he’d be a loner all his life. They enrolled him into Lake Side school, preparatory education, hoping the transition would get him out his shell and so it did. He started accelerating in every subject and even took up drama. At only 13, still studying at Lake Side school young gates discovered something he was fairly interested in, that software, it taken seriously in his mind so much that he started writing his very own computer programs. He surely had confidence in what he was doing that age 17 he sold his first computer program to his own school for $4,200. The program was used as a time-tabling system and is still used today.
Being the genius he is, he also came along some interesting memories, being arrested is one, the billionaire came in contact with the law when he was caught in New Mexico for running a red light and didn’t have a license to show for it. Also, what are the odds that Bill and the great Steve Jobs were very great friends, they would go on double dates as a pass time. Two of most inspiring people were friends before the fame and the fortune. It was then that the friendship came to a stop.
Continuously telling his teachers he would become very successful in the future, they did not doubt it when Gates took his SAT he scored a 1590 out of 1600, corresponding to an IQ of 170. Outstanding results got him into one of the top colleges, Harvard University. Which in fact he later drops out of to start his very successful career with his good friend Paul Allen.
Personal Life
At the high point of his career, net worth of $36 billion, Bill Gates stayed humble even when he has all the power not to be. He continued to fly coach, he didn’t see it as since he was wealthy his seat on a plan had to be in first class, that was up until 1997 when for his safety it was better for him to be reserved into first class.
On his wedding day with the beautiful Melinda French he went all out, for their privacy Gates rented every room in the hotel they were staying at and chartered every helicopter that came close to where they were.

After marrying they had 3 kids and built a home inside of a hill to fit their needs and way more. Guests are to wear a pin upon entering the Gates residence; this pin changes the room temperature, music, and the lighting to the preferences of the individual. Also a 2,100 square foot library with secret book cases, 7 bedrooms 24 bathrooms and 6 kitchens, and a 20 foot high trampoline room Although that seems as extreme as it could get, Gates had a 17 by 60ft swimming pool with an under-water music system built into the backyard. Everyone being amazed at how unique this house is Bill went ahead and made a 3-D graphic presentation of his home to show just how big and expensive it

was.
Microsoft
Best decision Gates ever made was dropping out of Harvard in 1975, he showed the world a college degree is nice but you can sure make just as much money without a degree as with one.

$250 a second, $15,000 a minute and $20 million every day is what dropping out of one of the best rated colleges got him. 1980, Gates develops a Microsoft disk operating system and 2 million sold within the next 3 years, and around the early 1990’s 100 million + sold. Microsoft fulfilled his childhood dreams along with giving the world something that will probably always used. A little unknown fact is that the generic silhouette outline in Microsoft Outlook 2010 is actually Bill Gates mug shot from his

childhood.
Although it was at one point Gates and Steve Jobs had a great friendship, while Microsoft was rising up in the market in 1997 Jobs used patents to pressure Bill into investing $150 million into Apple because he believed Apple would go under unless Microsoft had a stake in their success. Actually before this in 1983, Steve Jobs was furious with Gates when finding out he was ripping off some of their ideas and adding it to Microsoft, Jobs confronted Gates and he replied with “"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
Legacy
At the peak of his fortune Bill Gates was only the 6th richest of all time. Despite his $72 billion net worth he has stated that his children will only inherit $10 million each when he passes, he does not want them to completely have life handed to them. What Gates hopes is that his own children will find their way just as he did.
“It’s ingenuity that will make the difference between a bleak future and a bright one”
- Bill Gates