Jumat, 24 April 2015
“Bill Gates the
Successful Businessman”
William Henry Gates III who we
know as Bill Gates is a successful businessman that we know. Bill Gates was
born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington,
the son of William H. Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates. His father was a
prominent lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for First
Interstate Bank System and the United Way. As founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and
the richest people on the world. Based on the last estimation, his wealth is
about $56 billion.
We have
known Gates since we were in Junior High School from our teacher. We were
interested to know him more, so we searched him on internet. There were many
inspirations that we got from the story of his life, especially how he became
the richest and the successful businessman.
Here are some stories about
Bill Gates.
When he was
child, he liked reading and he was smart boy. He had finished reading the World Book Encyclopedia of
the series. Since Gates was 11
years old, he had asked his dad about business topics actively. When Gates was
13 years old, he studied at an exclusive school, Lakeside School. He was known
as a very clever student there. Then, he formed a venture with Allen, Traf-O-Data that focused on the traffic counters system based on
the Intel 8008 processor when he was 17 years old.
Gates graduated from Lakeside
School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and
enrolled at Harvard University in the autumn of 1973. When he was studying
at Harvard, Gates did not have a definite study plan and spent a lot of time
using the school's computers. Gates still had communication with Paul Allen,
and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.
In 1975, Gates and Allen
considered the launching of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080
CPU as the opportunity to start their own computer software company,
Microsoft Corporation. Finally, after founded Microsoft, Bill Gates decided to
drop out from Harvard University. After
that, he focused on developing Microsoft. By his effort and hard work,
brilliant mind, and his tenacity, Microsoft Corporation became successful and Bill Gates became a millionaire. He is often named as the
richest man in the world.
Gates
announced that from 2008 he would work full time on his philanthropic interests. He chose to focus on
humanity affair at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (that was built in
2000). Until 2007, the total contribution that was made by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation has reached USD 28 billion.
We consider Bill Gates
as a successful businessman because he could make
Microsoft to become the world’s largest PC
software company. Gates also has been given many awards, such as in 1987
he was listed in Forbes magazine
as the Richest People in American, in 2010 Gates received the Bower
Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute for
his achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work, in 2015 the
Government of India awarded The Padma Bushan, for Gates and his wife Melinda for their
contribution in Social work, etc. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires
Index, Gates was the world's highest-earning billionaire in 2013. In January
2014, most of his assets were invested in Cascade Investment LLC, an entity
where he owns stakes in numerous businesses, including Four Seasons Hotels and
Resorts, and Corbis Corp. Those are only some samples of his achievement.
How a successful person, right?
And do you know what we think
after we read the biography of Bill Gates? We think you will agree with us if
we say that we want to be a successful person like Bill Gates. So, we must
study hard, try to found a business step by step, keep self-confident and don’t
give up in reaching our dreams.
