Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as CEO until 2000. He grew up in Seattle and showed an early aptitude for computers. At Harvard, he met Paul Allen and they started Microsoft to develop software. Microsoft secured a pivotal deal with IBM in 1980 to develop the operating system for IBM PCs, which helped make Microsoft the dominant player in the PC software market. Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 but remains chairman of Microsoft and devotes significant time to philanthropic causes through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

1. BY:- GEET GOEL
REETIKA GUPTA
KAVITA
NIKHITA SOOD
BALJIT SINGH
SUDHANSHU KAPOOR

2.  Born on October 28, 1955 , in
Seatlle.
 Founded MICROSOFT with Paul
Allen.
 former CEO and current chairman
of Microsoft.
 Consistently ranked among
the world's wealthiest people and
was the wealthiest overall from
1995 to 2009, excluding 2008,
when he was ranked third, in 2011.

3. Born October 28, 1955 to William H. Gates II & Mary
Gates.
Grew up in Seattle, WA.
2 sisters- Kristi (older) and Libby (younger).
Father was a Seattle attorney
Mother was a schoolteacher, University of Washington
regent, & chairman of United Way International.

4.  Enrolled into Lakeside Prep at age 13 and
developed friendship with Paul Allen.
 As a baby, he was very smart child , full of
energy and bright student.
 Discovered computers (ARS-33).
 Wrote his first computer program in 8th grade.
 Graduated from Lakeside and registered at
Harvard College in the fall of 1973.
 SAT score: 1590 out of 1600.

5. 1. Inspiring the era of the home computer
During the late 1960s, Bill Gates and his school
friend Paul Allen learnt the BASIC programming
language whilst studying at Lakeside School in
Seattle.
2. Commercialising the operating system
Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1976. In 1980,
the company inked a landmark deal with IBM to
produce an operating system for its up-and-coming
personal computer (PC). Microsoft bought 86-DOS
from Seattle Computer Products, a Disk Operating
System designed for 8086-based computers.

6. 3. Launching Windows 95
When you look back at the career of Bill Gates, it's easy to focus on
Microsoft's biggest product – Windows. You can now find versions of
Windows on around 90 per cent of the world's computers.
4. Becoming the richest man in the world
Bill Gates became the richest man on the planet at the age of 39. He stayed
at number one on the Forbes list of the World's Richest People until 2007.
5. Giving his money away
In 2006, Warren Buffet gifted $31 billion to the Foundation, which already
had over $30 billion of Gates' own money in its coffers. In 2007 alone, the
Foundation spent over $2 billion on global education and health initiatives.

7.  Lived down the hall from Steve
Ballmer his freshman year at
Harvard. Steve is now Microsoft’s
chief executive officer.
 His sophomore year, he developed
a solution to one of a series of
unsolved problems that was later
published in a paper with Harvard
scientists.
 Solution held record as the fastest
version in over thirty years.

8.  Gates and Allen teamead up and started
a company named Micro-soft, in 1975.
 Started off by developing a version of an early computer
language- Basic, later on they sold it to MITS( their first
customer) for $3000.
 In 1980’s Micro-soft became Microsoft.
 Later in 1980 microsoft acquired a small Operating system and
developed MS-DOS, licenced by IBM for its first PC
 On June 25 1981, Bill Gates as Chairman and CEO.
 In 1983 Microsoft developed 1st Windows OS.
 On March 1986, with nearly 1400 employees and $200
revenues, Bill Gates became billionaire.

9.  1994, married Melinda French in Hawaii.
 1995,The govt agreed to drop its antitrust action.
 1998,profit $4.5 billion dollars,twice of world’s next
largest corporation i.e General Motors.
 2000, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was
established.
 It has over $28.8 billion to support charitable
initiatives in the areas of global health and education

10.  Chairman of Microsoft Corp.
 Has brought the company to continually advance and
improve software technology.
 He has made it easier, more cost-effective and more
enjoyable to use computers.
 Microsoft is now the worldwide leader in
software, services, and solutions that help people and
businesses reach full potential.

11. * Currently employs over 78,000 people in 105 countries
and regions.
* Had revenues of $52.12 billion for the year ending in
June 2007.
* Gates has been responsible for the company’s
strategies until 2006.
* He has vigorously broadened the company’s range of
products.
* He has written two books, The Road Ahead (1995) and
Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999).

12.  Do what you know
 Envision big
 Own it
 Partner
 Recognise when you’ve missed
the boat
 Compete like a small company
 Hire and keep the best

13. Bill Gates ($53 billion) is now the 2nd
richest man in the world, behind
Carlos Slim Helu ($53.5 billion).