Bill Gates is an entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading software company, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest charity in the world. As the co-founder of Microsoft, Gates helped usher in the personal computer revolution by developing the MS-DOS operating system and licensing it to IBM, which established Microsoft as the dominant player in the PC market. Now through his philanthropic work at the Gates Foundation, Gates is tackling challenges in global health and education. The document discusses Gates' characteristics and skills as a successful entrepreneur, including his ability to see opportunities, mastermind new strategies, and motivate teams to achieve big visions through a willingness to learn from mistakes.

1. Presented by: U Thaung Htaik Kyaw
(M.C.Sc, MBA)
Date : 1st – Aug - 2014
Entrepreneur Bill Gates

2. Who is Entrepreneur?
 Need of achievement
 Perseverance
 Moderate risk taker
 Ability to see and act upon opportunities
 Analytical Ability
 Learning from mistakes
 Planner
 Flexibility
 Energetic
 Interpersonal Skill
 Motivator
 Forward Looking

3. Entrepreneur
Bill Gates
Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation
(the world’s leading provider of software for personal computer)
Co-founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(the biggest charity in the world)
He is the world’s third richest person since 2008
(Forbes, 2012)
One of the 100 most influential people in the world
(Time Magazine)

4. Why Bill Gates?
•Bill Gates is one of the rare entrepreneurs with the skills
to take a company from start-up to corporate giant.
•Bill Gates have had the opportunity to change the world
twice in one lifetime:
• First, as the world's most influential geek, he
helped usher in the personal computer revolution.
• Now he is tackling the stubbornly difficult
challenges of global health and public education as
the world's most generous philanthropist.

5. How did he do as Entrepreneur
•Seeing an opportunity
(Developed BASIC program for microcomputer,
the Atair 8800)
•Masterminded
(Developed MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM)
•Response to the threat
(Developed Windows OS and worked on
improving Windows)
•The Strategy worked well
(Combining Windows with its other applications
into “suites”)
•Gates was focusing on setting standards
(Setting standards, 1. MS-DOS and 2. Windows
and these standards set shaped the modern
computer industry)
•Willingness to adopt to changing
environments
•(Motivated individuals learn from mistakes and

6. Special characteristics of Bill
Gates
•He has a very broad vision
•High passionate
•Intelligence person
•Communication skill
•Focus
•Think Big
•Learning as a life-long process
•Hiring very smart people
•Giving back to society

7. Microsoft
 Company: Microsoft
Sales: $69.9 billion
Market Value: $273.5 billion
Employees: 90,000
Advice: Find very smart people and create small
teams.
 Bill Gates is a passionate entrepreneur who has
been able to turn his love for all things computer
into a multi-billion dollar fortune, and revolutionize
the world in the process.

8. The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has
provided a new dimension to philanthropy by
addressing issues that are global in nature -
malaria, cancer, AIDS.
 Bill Gates has shown a remarkable degree of
consistency both in his business goals and in his
goals in philanthropy.
 Bill and his wife gave over 28 billion USD to
charity.

9. Thank you for your attention!