Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. His full name was William Henry Gates III. He enjoyed playing board games as a kid and was very close to his siblings and parents. He was an avid reader, spending hours each day reading.

His parents sometimes worried about him, as he didn’t have many friends and spent a lot of time alone. So they enrolled Gates in Lakeside Preparatory School. He excelled in all of his subjects, and he became very interested in computers.

Gates graduated in 1973. On the college SAT exam, he scored a 1590, an impressive feat. He enrolled in Harvard, but dropped out in 1975 to work on his business, Microsoft with Paul Allen.

Gates met Paul Allen at Lakeside, where they became friends through their shared knowledge and interest in computers. At the age of 15, they developed a company called Traf-o-data, which monitored traffic in Seattle. They went to separate colleges but both dropped out to found a company called Microsoft. It was originally called Micro-Soft, but they dropped the hyphen soon after.

Their company produced software for microcomputers. The software was somewhat popular, so they started expanding. By 1979, Microsoft was making 2.5 million.

Microsoft’s most popular software was the Windows operating system, a graphic operating system very similar to Apple’s Macintosh system, but with its own differences. The first was the Windows 95. Windows is the most popular operating system today, with most computers running the Windows 10 and Windows 11. In 1989, Microsoft came out with Microsoft Office, a program for writing word documents and spreadsheets.

Gates stepped down from CEO in 2000. He and his wife Melinda started the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, a charity focused on providing education, health services, and investment in poor countries. Bill Gates succeeded by his determination and hard working attitude. Gates was the worlds richest man for 13 years, and has a net worth of 113 billion today.