BillGates比尔盖茨英文介绍.ppt

Bill Gates brief introduction William Henry Bill Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the worlds wealthiest people In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. early age Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His ancestry includes English, German, and Scots-Irish.His father was a lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gatess maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president. At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC and got some grades. Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the?SAT?and enrolled at?Harvard College?in the autumn of 1973.?While at Harvard, he met??Steve Ballmer , who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft.  Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the schools computers. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.Gates dropped out of Harvard at this time.He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company. As a business man Du