a brief introduction of Gates.

1. Group Members:
杜经伦 周奕天
王铭聪 朱宇霆

2. • William Henry Bill Gates is
an American business
magnate, investor,
programmer, inventor and
philanthropist. Gates is the
former chief executive and
current chairman of
Microsoft.

3. Introduction of Bill Gates
• On October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was
born in the west coast of the United
States a family in Seattle,
Washington.
• His father is a famous local lawyer,
his mother is a director of the bank
system, his grandfather, a former
president of the central bank.

4. Senior High School
• In the Lakeside School,
Gates met Paul Allen,
the co-founder of
Microsoft.

5. Senior High School
• At the age of 17, Gates
sold his first computer
programming work, a
time table system, the
buyer is his high school,
the price is $4200.

6. Harvard
• Gates scored 1590 in
SAT and full marks are
1600 points. After that,
he entered Harvard
University.

7. Harvard
• In 1973, Gates entered
Harvard. In 1974, he
met Steve Ballmer, The
current CEO of
Microsoft.

8. Harvard
• In Harvard, Gates
helped write the Altair
BASIC, it was
Microsoft's first product.

9. Drop out of school
• In the junior year(1974),
Gates left Harvard. He
put all his passion and
energy into Microsoft.

10. Fall in love
• In 1987, Microsoft
released a ceremony
held in Manhattan,
Gates met his future
wife Melinda Gates, one
of Microsoft's
employees. They were
married in 1994.

11. Wealth
• He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of
the world's wealthiest people and was the
wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—
excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in
2011 he was the wealthiest American and the
world's second wealthiest person. According to
the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates is the
world's richest person in 2013, a position that
he last held on the list in 2007

12. Wealth

13. Philanthropy
• On June 15, 2006, Bill
Gates announced that he
will be out of Microsoft
company daily affairs in
two years, so that the
main focus on health
and education charity.

14. Character
• He is known as the
extreme individualism.
According to one of his
high school classmates，
Bill Gates declared he
would become a
millionaire at the age of
30.

15. Well-known saying
The world won't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish
something before you feel good about
yourself.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you
get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Dying with great wealth is a disgrace.

16. Thanks For Watching!
Division of responsibilities
Collecting data:周奕天
Collecting pictures：王铭聪
Making PPT＆Translation：杜经伦
Presentation：朱宇霆
Source of data
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