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1 Bill gates

2 Basic info Birth – October 28, 1955; Seattle, Washington, USA
Parents – William Henry Gates and Mary Maxwell GatesSpouse – Melinda GatesChildren – Jennifer Katharine, Rory John, and Phoebe AdeleNet worth – US$86 billion

3 Early life Lakeside School – started programming and met Paul Allen
Harvard – met Steve Ballmer and dropped out to start his own companyA yearbook photo from 1973

4 Microsoft 1975 – started working for MITS (Micro
Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) withPaul Allen, they named their partnership „Micro-Soft“1976 – Microsoft became independent of MITS and continued to develop programming language software1981 – IBM asked Microsoft to make an operating system for their upcoming PC -> PC DOSFirst logo from 1975

5 Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1981
1983 – Allen left for health reasons1985 – Microsoft launched the first version of Windows1989 – Microsoft O