Famous Leader: Bill Gates

Famous Leader: Bill Gates

Carlos Lazú Arroyo

Davenport University

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Abstract

This paper is about the life of famous leader Bill Gates. In this assignment it will be presented a summary of his life story is and how he became a successful entrepreneur. In this paper will also be explain how Bill Gates overcome the obstacles to be recognized as a important figure and to his story of life be remarkable and studied by many experts as psychologists and students of business administration. This paper also presents some of the lesion that Bill Gates give to people with his life story.

Famous Leader: Bill Gates

Bill Gates is an expert in computer and American entrepreneur, founder of Microsoft. The fortunes of this early programmer, who did not finish their studies and at age 31 was already a billionaire, comes from the overwhelming success of its operating system, MS-DOS (1981), which would evolve into the popular Windows 3.1 (1992) and would result in the successive versions of the operating, omnipresent system to this day in the vast majority of laptops and desktops (Biography.com, 2016).

Summary of Bill Gates life history

Bill Gates is the second of the three children that the marriage of William and Mary Maxwell Gates. He was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, on the west coast of the US. His was not a poor family, of course. Bill's father was a prominent lawyer and mother, an executive high tuft of First Interstate Bank, one of the largest in the country.

Coming from a family with so much money, he had no trouble getting to age 13 in Lakeside School, the most prestigious and expensive school in Seattle, where he soon discovered his passion for computers through the Mothers Club. And so, after a charity raffle, this group of women did something that years later would appreciate humanity: buy a computer for college.        

Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen programmed simple games sitting in front of that huge, heavy and slow device until the results you swallowed, which then appear on a printer. A move that took 30 seconds. That gizmo, called the PDP-8, manufactured by Digital Equipment, cost $ 18,000 (about 13,400 euros). It occupied the size of a small closet and a half meters high, but it served a 13-year old were dreaming that one day millions of people could have their own computers. One of the reasons he was so determined to help develop the personal computer was because he wanted one for himself (notablebiographies.com, 2016).

That vision began to take shape in 1975. One day, wandering the streets near the university, Gates and Allen were fixed in another model: Popular Electronics magazine showed a small computer to assemble at home for $ 397 (about 296 euros) . Call computer was too because it was a light box without keyboard or screen. His name was Altair, and most importantly of all he had in his heart an innovative Intel 8080 chip. Gates and Allen were paralyzed. Or they were hurrying, or someone was going to overtake creating software for the chip. Paul Allen found the 8080 manual and Gates went on to write a modified Basic program. Gate and Paul did not sleep much and lost track of the night and day, but at five weeks, had written Basic and was born the first microcomputer software company. In his day they called it Micro-Soft.