In 2003, Bill Gates earned $23,148 a minute, $1.38 million an hour, leading to a total of $33.3 million a day (Roche). Growing up, he always had an interest in computer technology. While attending Lakeside School, he met Allen Paul who went on to be his co-worker. After high school, he briefly attended college, then dropped out shortly after receiving an excellent job offer. He formed Microsoft and its success exceeded his, and others, expectations. Microsoft windows evolved and its popularity continued to grow. He then found interest in philanthropic work and took after his mother's role. He wrote a few books which also contributed to his fame and wealth. Bill Gates co-founded the world’s largest business and became one of the richest men
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He grew up in an upper middle class family with two sisters. Ever since he was a child, he had a very close relationship with his mother. He was very quiet and his parents feared that he would have no friends and “be a loner,” so they enrolled him into “Seattle’s exclusive Preparatory Lakeside School” (“Bill Gates”). He was reluctant at first, finding excuses not to attend (Gates). At lakeside, he took an interest in computers, and at age thirteen he “wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language” which persuaded him to pursue his computer passion (“Bill Gates”).
While attending Lakeside School, he met Allen Paul and they quickly became best friends for they shared a common interest in computers. In 1970, when Gates was fifteen years old, him and Paul went into business. They developed “Traf-O-Data, a computer program that monitors traffic patterns in seattle.” Altogether, Bill Gates and Allen Paul earned about $20,000 for their efforts. After their success with the “traf-o-Data,” the two boys were ready to start an official business, but Bill Gates’ parents disapproved. They wanted him to go to law school and become a lawyer (“Bill …show more content…
They came up with the name by combining the words “micro-computer” and “software.” The company started off on a shaky unstable path. “Their BASIC software program was not meeting their overhead.” “Only about ten percent of the people using BASIC in the Altair computer had actually paid for it,” so the men were not getting a steady, fair, income. Gates’ and Allen’s income was fairly low for the work they were doing. Bill Gates disapproved and considered the “free distribution” of his software stealing. He was infuriated and in February of 1976, he wrote a letter to a computer hobbyist complaining that “continued distribution and use of software without paying for it would prevent good software from being written.” The letter was extremely unpopular, but Bill Gates did not let that affect his opinion (“Bill Gates”).
Bill Gates was still working at MITS, and had a bitter relationship with the president of the company, Ed Roberts. Roberts saw Gates as an obnoxious, spoiled kid who got whatever he asked for. In 1977, Roberts sold MITS to another company and became a doctor. Bill Gates and Paul Allen sued the new owners to retain the software rights the two men developed (“Bill
He grew up in an upper middle class family with two sisters. Ever since he was a child, he had a very close relationship with his mother. He was very quiet and his parents feared that he would have no friends and “be a loner,” so they enrolled him into “Seattle’s exclusive Preparatory Lakeside School” (“Bill Gates”). He was reluctant at first, finding excuses not to attend (Gates). At lakeside, he took an interest in computers, and at age thirteen he “wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language” which persuaded him to pursue his computer passion (“Bill Gates”).
While attending Lakeside School, he met Allen Paul and they quickly became best friends for they shared a common interest in computers. In 1970, when Gates was fifteen years old, him and Paul went into business. They developed “Traf-O-Data, a computer program that monitors traffic patterns in seattle.” Altogether, Bill Gates and Allen Paul earned about $20,000 for their efforts. After their success with the “traf-o-Data,” the two boys were ready to start an official business, but Bill Gates’ parents disapproved. They wanted him to go to law school and become a lawyer (“Bill …show more content…
They came up with the name by combining the words “micro-computer” and “software.” The company started off on a shaky unstable path. “Their BASIC software program was not meeting their overhead.” “Only about ten percent of the people using BASIC in the Altair computer had actually paid for it,” so the men were not getting a steady, fair, income. Gates’ and Allen’s income was fairly low for the work they were doing. Bill Gates disapproved and considered the “free distribution” of his software stealing. He was infuriated and in February of 1976, he wrote a letter to a computer hobbyist complaining that “continued distribution and use of software without paying for it would prevent good software from being written.” The letter was extremely unpopular, but Bill Gates did not let that affect his opinion (“Bill Gates”).
Bill Gates was still working at MITS, and had a bitter relationship with the president of the company, Ed Roberts. Roberts saw Gates as an obnoxious, spoiled kid who got whatever he asked for. In 1977, Roberts sold MITS to another company and became a doctor. Bill Gates and Paul Allen sued the new owners to retain the software rights the two men developed (“Bill