Bill Gates is a renowned computer programmer and businessman who co-founded Microsoft in 1975. Through Microsoft, he helped revolutionize the technology industry and make personal computers accessible to the masses. In addition to his business success, Gates has donated over $28 billion to humanitarian causes through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and education worldwide.

1. Leader I Admire:
Bill Gates
Nicholas Grannan

2. Biography
 Born on October 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington
 Began showing an interest in computer programming at the age of 13
 Bill Gates met Paul Allen at Lakeside School in Seattle
 Gates went to Harvard University and left after only a couple years
 Bill and Paul founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975
 Bill Gates appointed himself as head of Microsoft in 1979, which grossed
approximately $2.5 million when Bill Gates was 23

3. His Inventions
 Windows: computer software
 Traf-O-Data: a traffic measuring system
 Altair BASIC: computer language for easier machine use
 Xbox & Xbox 360 Kinect: a gaming console, and entertainment system
 Windows Surface: a touch screen laptop and tablet

4. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
 Founded in 2000, by Bill Gates and his wife Melinda
 Headquarter is located in Seattle, Washington
 They give financial services to the poor
 Help agricultural development
 Help with water, sanitation and hygiene
 Global Health Division to help fight diseases and send out medicine to people
in need around the world

5. Where does all his money go?
 Bill Gates is worth around $80.7 billion and counting
 Bill Gates has given over $28 billion through his charity the Bill and Melinda
Foundation
 Bill has also given around $8 billion to improve global health
 Bill Gates invests his money in Cascade Investments which half of Gate’s
fortune is held in assets

6. Why I admire him
 He turned his ideas into reality
 He was able to create his own path
 Made a product that revolutionized the world and changed the way we do
things
 He helps others through charity all around the world