On October 28, 1955 a person who would one day change the world in a multitude of ways was born, and his name was Bill Gates. From a young age and while Bill Gates was still in elementary school he excelled in all of his courses and was eventually put in a more rigorous private school. It was at the Lakeside private school that Bill Gates would first encounter and program computers, and set off down the path towards changing the world. After being noticed for his talent with programming computers Bill Gates got his first job in the computer industry and began working his way up until eventually he and his co-founder Paul Allen founded Microsoft (Mirick, 1). At Microsoft Bill Gates worked on the development of the Windows operating system, which
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Following a successful career at Microsoft and earning the title of “Richest man alive” Bill Gates retried from Microsoft and began to work full-time with his charity organization known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Zachary, 1). Even though he continues to work on philanthropy, Bill Gates has already made a massive positive impact on the world, first through the spread of technology and by revolutionizing the way we use computers, and later through philanthropy by bringing much needed aid to developing countries.
In the world of computers few individuals have been as influential as Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates. In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen teamed up to found the partnership that would one day become Microsoft and began work on a goal a lot of the computer industry shared at the time, a computer in every home and office. At first in the early 1980’s Microsoft began work with IBM to create a new operating system that would become known as MS-DOS, the OS shipped in 1981 and was a very effective operating system, for those who knew how to use it, the problem was that many people found it difficult to understand MS-DOS, and so Bill Gates knew he had …show more content…
Gates Foundation which later became the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which gives grants to organizations in need of money, particularly those involved in curing diseases, disaster relief or education. The Gates Foundation has been hard at work since its founding to help improve people’s lives who live in developing nations by bringing in the financial resources to build new forms of sanitation and provide vaccines against deadly diseases that are common in developing nations. One of the current goals of the Gates Foundation is to eradicate Malaria which they have so far made major steps towards doing. Between 2000 and 2012 with the help of the Gates Foundation world organizations working together to end malaria have managed to cause a 25 percent decline in deaths due to Malaria worldwide. However the Gates Foundation is currently working on a new strategy as of 2013, as new roadblocks to the cause arise such as drug and insecticide resistance which are becoming a large threat to recent gains. However neither Bill Gates nor his Foundation have been deterred and just recently in 2014 the Gates Foundation just contributed another 500 million dollars towards the cause of curing malaria. Funding from the Gates Foundation has helped to increase the total funding for a malaria cure ten-fold over the past few years and as a result research and containment of the disease are making progress
Following a successful career at Microsoft and earning the title of “Richest man alive” Bill Gates retried from Microsoft and began to work full-time with his charity organization known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Zachary, 1). Even though he continues to work on philanthropy, Bill Gates has already made a massive positive impact on the world, first through the spread of technology and by revolutionizing the way we use computers, and later through philanthropy by bringing much needed aid to developing countries.
In the world of computers few individuals have been as influential as Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates. In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen teamed up to found the partnership that would one day become Microsoft and began work on a goal a lot of the computer industry shared at the time, a computer in every home and office. At first in the early 1980’s Microsoft began work with IBM to create a new operating system that would become known as MS-DOS, the OS shipped in 1981 and was a very effective operating system, for those who knew how to use it, the problem was that many people found it difficult to understand MS-DOS, and so Bill Gates knew he had …show more content…
Gates Foundation which later became the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which gives grants to organizations in need of money, particularly those involved in curing diseases, disaster relief or education. The Gates Foundation has been hard at work since its founding to help improve people’s lives who live in developing nations by bringing in the financial resources to build new forms of sanitation and provide vaccines against deadly diseases that are common in developing nations. One of the current goals of the Gates Foundation is to eradicate Malaria which they have so far made major steps towards doing. Between 2000 and 2012 with the help of the Gates Foundation world organizations working together to end malaria have managed to cause a 25 percent decline in deaths due to Malaria worldwide. However the Gates Foundation is currently working on a new strategy as of 2013, as new roadblocks to the cause arise such as drug and insecticide resistance which are becoming a large threat to recent gains. However neither Bill Gates nor his Foundation have been deterred and just recently in 2014 the Gates Foundation just contributed another 500 million dollars towards the cause of curing malaria. Funding from the Gates Foundation has helped to increase the total funding for a malaria cure ten-fold over the past few years and as a result research and containment of the disease are making progress