This is the Biography of bill gates and the story of how he became the richest person in the world.

1. “I ALWAYS GIVE THE LAZIEST
PEOPLE THE HARDEST JOBS,
BECAUSE THEY WILL FIND THE
EASIEST WAY TO DO IT .”

2. (WILLIAM HENRY GATES III)
BILL GATES

3. MICROSOFT CORPORATION

4. BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

5. LIFE STORY

6. • Born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
• His father was a lawyer and mother was a teacher.
• He hacked the one and only computer of their school when he was 13.
• He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the college Final exam. And he joined
to Harvard University.

7. • He had a good friend called Paul Allen from his
childhood.
• In 1975 Gates and Allen stopped their university life
and formed a partnership they called Microsoft.
• In 1983 Allen resigned from Microsoft because he
had a cancer.

8. • In 1984 Bill joined with Steve jobs to help Apple
• He stole the original OS from apple that apple stole
from a company called “Xerox”
• Steve jobs investigated it and he scolded Bill in
front of employees and Bill said “we both copied
from one place” and he left the apple contract.

9. • In 1985 Bill gates introduced the first Microsoft
Windows operating system.
• In 1987 Gates has been on the top or near the top
of the world's wealthiest people list.
• In 1989 he introduced the first Microsoft office
package and the new Windows version.

10. • On January 1, 1993, Melinda French and Bill
Gates were married in Hawaii.
• July in 1995, at age 39 and with a fortune of
$12.9 billion, Gates became the world's richest
man.
• Still Bill Gates is the richest person in the
world.

11. TURNING
POINTS OF HIS
LIFE

12. 1.When he hacked the one and only computer of their school when he was 13.
Principle of their school punished him for That but lately Bill Gates nominated as
the person in charge of that computer. That is the first Turing point of his life as a genius
of computing.

13. 2. When he got the contract to provide a OS to a company.
He worked all day long and he had a good courage finally he create
that OS with the help of Paul Allen he named the OS as “BASIC". After few years
Allen and Gates formed a partnership they called Microsoft.

14. 3. When he joined with Apple.
Steve jobs asked Bill gates to help Apple to create a OS for their computers.so he
joined with Apple. Meanwhile Steve jobs stole a OS from a company. And Gates also stole it
from Steve. After Steve Investigated that Gates quit from Apple. After few years Bill gates
introduce the First Windows OS to the world

15. 4. When he went a trip to Africa.(How he became a philanthropist)
In 1993 Bill Gates and his Wife went a trip to Africa to. But in that trip He saw the
poor of people in Africa and the way they live. He changed his mind and he wanted to help
those people. NEARLY 30 BILLION DOLLARS WERE DONATED BY HIM SO FAR.

16. HIS
ACHIEVEMENTS
AND SUCESS

17. Achievements
• He is the founder of the world`s most popular and the
highest profitable company the Microsoft Corporation.
• He purchased the NOKIA (mobile brand) `s smart
phones sector and renamed it as Microsoft.
• He is the founder of the World`s largest private
foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

18. Success
• Still Bill Gates is the world`s richest person.
• He won many medals and awards mainly,
National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1992.
Lasker – Bloomberg Public Service Award in 2013.
Padma Bhushan in 2015.
• In 2005 Bill Gates received an honorary Knighthood
from the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II.

19. CHALLENGES
AND BARRIERS

20. Challenges
• Bill Gates parents were not happy when he said that he
wanted to drop out of college t his parents said no.
• After discontinuing the program with MITS Bill Gates
(Microsoft) faced a huge financial situation.
• In 1983 Paul Allen resigned from company so Gates had
to do some works himself.

21. Barriers
• MAC and Linux operating systems.
• When he started the philanthropy works in
Africa. HIV AIDS virus was a huge Barrier.
• After renamed Nokia smart phones into
Microsoft. Demand were reduced.

22. UNIQUE
QUALITIES OF
BILL GATES

23. •INTEGRITY
•TENACITY
•COURAGE
•PHILANTHROPY

24. THE BEST LESSONS
THAT WE CAN
LEARN FROM BILL
GATES

25. Be Ready to Takes Risks
“Business is a money game
with few rules and a lot of
risk.”-Bill gates

26. Never Fast Forward Your Way to Success
“Patience is a key element of success.” –
Bill gates

27. Accept Failures and Move On
“It’s fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed
the lessons of failure.” – Bill
gates

28. AMAZING FACTS ABOUT
BILL GATES

30. THANK YOU.

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