Bill Gates Research Paper

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Imagine owning a world wide known company and being worth 85.6 billion dollars. You probably know who I'm talking about I'm talking about a man known as Bill Gates, also known as one of the wealthiest people on this planet. He has done many incredible things in his life like invent my favorite type of gaming console, Xbox. He is also co-founder and CEO of the world's biggest PC company Microsoft of course.

William Henry Bill Gates the third was born October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. He grew up living with his parents, their names were William H. Gates Sr. and his mom's name was Mary Maxwell Gates and he also had 2 sisters. Growing up he showed an interest in coding at just 13 years old. In 1970, at the age of 15, Bill Gates

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