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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire - Kindle edition by Schwab, Tim. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire. William Henry Gates III born October 28, is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer CEO , president, and chief software architect , while also being its largest individual shareholder until May Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Gates led the company as its chairman and chief executive officer until stepping down as CEO in January , succeeded by Steve Ballmer , but he remained chairman of the board of directors and became chief software architect.
During the late s, he was criticized for his business tactics , which were considered anti-competitive. He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March , Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on climate change , global health and development, and education.
Since , Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's top billionaires. From to , he held the title of the wealthiest person in the world every year except in and from to Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in , Gates has pursued other business and philanthropic endeavors. Through the foundation, he led an early 21st century vaccination campaign that significantly contributed to the eradication of the wild poliovirus in Africa.
In , Gates and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge , whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth towards philanthropy. Gates Sr. Gates's maternal grandfather J. Maxwell was a national bank president. He also has an older sister Kristi Kristianne and a younger sister Libby. When Gates was young his parents wanted him to pursue a career in law. At age 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school , [ 14 ] [ 15 ] where he wrote his first software program.
He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. The four students formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money.
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Rather than using the system remotely via Teletype , Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including Fortran , Lisp , and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until when the company went out of business. The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return.
The duo worked diligently in order to have the program ready for their senior year. Towards the end of their junior year, Evans was killed in a mountain climbing accident, which Gates described as one of the saddest days of his life. He then turned to Allen who helped him finish the system for Lakeside.
At 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel processor. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer stayed and graduated magna cum laude.
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Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from until his resignation in Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems [ 29 ] presented in a combinatorics class by professor Harry Lewis. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.
I was officially on leave. Allen named their partnership "Micro-Soft", a combination of "microcomputer" and "software", and their first office was in Albuquerque. The first employee Gates and Allen hired was their high school collaborator Ric Weiland. Microsoft's Altair BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked out and was being widely copied and distributed.
Microsoft became independent of MITS in late , and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems. Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. As the company grew, he transitioned into a manager role, then an executive. It is a driving game in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys.
The game was written by Gates and Neil Konzen. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system. The contract itself only earned Microsoft a relatively small fee. It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM's adoption of their operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft's transformation from a small business to the leading software company in the world.