All about Mr. Bill Gates

1. Mr. Bill Gates.
Most Successful Entrepreneur of the
20th Century.

2. Contents:
All About Bill Gates.
Prodigy.
Launch Of Revolution: Microsoft.
Mr. Gates Views.
Achievements

3. Mr. Bill Gates.
William Henry "Bill" Gates III
Born on Oct. 28 1955 .
He Is an American business magnate,
philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft,
the software company he founded with
Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held
the positions of CEO and chief software
architect. He has also authored or co-
authored several books.

4. Family Background
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington,
to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary
Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and
Scotch-Irish descent.
His family was upper middle class; his
father was a prominent lawyer, his
mother served on the board of directors
for First Interstate Banc System and the
United Way.

5. Education.
He was enrolled at Lakeside school in
13.
His school has purchased a computer
terminal and a block of time of
computers of General Electric.
Gates started taking interest in
programming.

6. Contd…
In 1974, MITS Altair 8800 Computer came
into market.
Gates and Allen had sought this event as
their opportunity to start their business of
developing system emulators.
He proposed the company to show their
demonstration in BASIC language. As a
consequence of successful demonstration
they got an opportunity to develop the
emulator. Paul Allen was hired by the
company. While Gates took a leave from
college to complete the project and never
returned to Harvard.

7. Prodigy
A prodigy is a person that possesses
exceptional skills and abilities. Most often, it
is a highly extraordinary child or youth that is
unusually talented.
He wrote his first computer program on Tic-
Tac-Toe.
Gates was fascinated by the machine and
how it would always execute software code
perfectly. When he reflected back on that
moment, he commented on it and said,
"There was just something neat about
the machine."

8. Computer Geek.
Since programming was in his blood, he
along with his four friends were banned
by Computer Center Corporation for
exploiting bugs in the system so that they
can get more time with computers.
After the ban for students were offered to
work in CCC. Later they were hired by
Information Sciences Inc. to write a
program in COBOL.

9. A Genius.
The Company soon realized his
capabilities of programming, he was
offered to write school's computer
program to schedule students in classes.
He deliberately modified the code so that
he was placed in classes with mostly
female students.
He later stated that “It was hard to tear
myself away from a machine at
which I could so unambiguously
demonstrate success.”

10. Launch Of Revolution: Microsoft.
Soon after developing the emulator of
Altair 8800 and when Gates dropped out
of the college, Bill Gate and Paul Allen
bind into a partnership and name their
firm as Micro-soft. and had their first
office located in Albuquerque.
Within a year, the hyphen was dropped,
and on November 26, 1976, the trade
name "Microsoft" was registered with the
Office of the Secretary of the State of
New Mexico.

12. IBM Partnership
In 1980, IBM approached Gates to
develop a BASIC interpreter for their
PC, but Gates referred them to SCP.
IBM representatives requested Gates
for developing the OS as they got
problems in licensing from SCP.
A few weeks later Gates proposed
using 86-DOS(QDOS), an operating
system similar to CP/M SCP.

13. A Witty Decision
Gates did not offer to transfer the
copyright on the operating system,
because he believed that other hardware
vendors would clone IBM's system .
They did, and the sales of MS-DOS made
Microsoft a major player in the industry.

14. Emerging Of Windows
Microsoft launched its first retail
version of Microsoft Windows on
November 20, 1985 and made an
agreement with IBM PC’s.
As the time progressed, Microsoft
developed a pool of Software
Engineers and released different
versions of widows till date.

15. Gates Views.
Keys to Gates Success
Stick to your vision
Develop an A-team
Think Long Term
Make a strong recovery
Never Stop Learning

17. Vision
In order to remain well focused while
running a company one requires to
have a Vision and a Mission. When Bill
Gates was asked by Fortune to explain
the astounding success of his
brainchild, Microsoft, his immediate
response was, “Our vision, which has
not changed since the day the
company was founded.”

18. Never Stop Learning!!!
“Every now and then I like to pick up a
copy of Time magazine and read
every article from beginning to end,
not just the articles that interest me
most,” says Gates. “That way you can
be certain to learn something you
didn’t know previously.”

19. Entrepreneurial Traits
Gates Believe in:
Taking personal responsibility
Setting high benchmarks
Rewarding skilled professionals
Asserting his authority on major
decisions
He was a Pace Setter in the beginning,
But later he adopted Authoritarian style

20. Achievements
Inspiring the ERA of Home Computer
Commercializing the OS
Launching of Windows
Becoming the Richest Man of World

21. As we look ahead into the next
century, leaders will be those who
empower others
It's fine to celebrate success but it is
more important to heed the lessons of
failure
Your most unhappy customers are
your greatest source of learning
~Bill Gates

22. Thank You!