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Bill Gates is the most successful business man in the world today, and he is also in the fastest growing industry in the world. “Most of Bills personal beliefs revolve around working hard and trying your hardest to succeed. He believes that if you are intelligent and know how to apply your intelligence you can accomplish anything. Bill thinks that if you don’t work your hardest you will never succeed…” Bill Gates, a onetime computer nerd, was the only chief executive Microsoft had until he decided to hand over the responsibility to his partner, Paul Allen. To the world, he was a symbol of American technology. To his executives, he was a hard-driving boss who preferred high-level technical discussions. Although he began Microsoft on a shoestring, his is not a rags-to-riches story (Cook 64-66). Instead, he was the prototype of the new digital generation. Born October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters were from a prominent Seattle family. His father, William Henry Gates Jr., was a partner in a Seattle law firm and his mother, Mary, was a regent at the University of Washington and a chairwoman of United Way International. (Gates, 1995) Bill Gates’ first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his “first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe” (Gates, 1995). By the time he was thirteen years old, Gates was programming in the Basic computer language.
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