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William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born October 28,
1955 in Seattle, Washington. He is an American busi-
ness magnate, investor, philanthropist and author. He is
also the former chief executive officer (CEO) and cur-
rent chairman of Microsoft, the software company
he founded with Paul Allen.
Bill Gates
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He is consistently ranked among the world's richest
people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to
2009. During his career at Microsoft, Gates has held
the positions of CEO, chief software architect, and
also remains the largest individual shareholder. He is
one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal
computer revolution.
Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in January
2000. He remained as chairman and created the posi-
tion of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates
announced that he would be transitioning from full-
time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-
time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27,
2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chair-
man.
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William
H. Gates, Sr and Mary Maxwell Gates. His parents are
of English, German and Scots-Irish descent. His father
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was a well known lawyer, and his mother served on the
board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and
the United Way. Early on in his life, Gates' parents has
a career in law in mind for him.
At age 13, he enrolled in an exclusive preparatory school.
In his eight grade, the Mothers Club at the school used
proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a
Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of com-
puter time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the
school's students. Gates took an interest in program-
ming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from
math class to pursue his interest. He wrote his first
computer program on this machine, an implementation of
tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the
computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how
it would always execute software code to perfection.
When he reflects back on that moment, he says, "There
was just something neat about the machine."
On April 4, 1975 along with his childhood friend Paul
Allen who also had a passion in computer programming
and was seeking to make a successful business utilizing
each others skills launched Microsoft, which would go

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on to dominate the home computer operating system
market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980's, followed by the
Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Together,
they would also go on to dominate the office suite Mi-
crosoft Office.
Over the years, the company diversified into the video
game industry with the Xbox as well as into the con-
sumer electronics and digital services market with Zune,
MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The company has gone
on to create three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires
from Microsoft employees alone.
Apart from all his contributions to the software indus-
try, Gates is also involved in a lot of social work. In 1994,
Gates sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the
William H. Gates Foundation. In 2000, he and his wife
combined three family foundations to create the chari-
table Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is the
largest, transparently operated charitable foundation in
the world. As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the
second-most generous philanthropists in America,
having given over $28 billion to charity. They eventually
plan to give away 95% of their wealth to charity.
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