Bill Gates: Biography
Bill Gates: Biography
William H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft
Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal
computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June
1996, and employs more than 20,000 people in 48 countries.
Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their
father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary
Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of
United Way International.
Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There,
he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age
13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the
hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and
support. While at......
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