A story from the biography of Bill Gates

Key points:

1. The biography is mainly realistic, including mission resume and honors

2. Shows the legendary life of the character

Text: When talking about Microsoft, everyone will think of Bill Gates - the founder of Microsoft and the spiritual symbol of Microsoft; and when talking about Bill Gates - the world's richest man, people can't help but think of it. Software giant Microsoft Corporation. The relationship between Gates and Microsoft is as inseparable as God and heaven, Hades and hell.

Although Gates is currently troubled by lawsuits, even though the bad news about being decomposed has caused a catastrophic drop in Microsoft's stock, even though Intel and Cisco have surpassed Microsoft's market value in the past six months. , although Oracle's Larry Ellison once replaced Gates as the world's richest man, in the latest ranking of the richest people in Forbes, Gates still firmly holds the first place, and Microsoft is still the top A leader in the technological battlefield.

Think back to those days: Gates started from scratch, founded Microsoft, became the youngest billionaire in history at the age of 31 (later this record was broken), became the richest man in the United States at the age of 37 and won the National Medal of Science and Technology. At the age of 39, he surpassed Wall Street stock market tycoon Warren Buffett in one fell swoop and became the world's richest man. In the same year, he defeated General Electric's Jack Welch by one vote and was selected as the "Most Admired CEO" by Industry Week;

After Microsoft went public, its market value continued to rise, surpassing Boeing and IBM, and then surpassed the combined market value of the three major automobile companies, until it exceeded the 500 billion mark and surpassed General Electric (GE) to become a global market The most valuable company, with an annual turnover exceeding the combined total of the other 49 of the world's top 50 software companies, was still named the "Most Admired Company" even after being pursued and intercepted by the Department of Justice and 19 states at the end of last year... …All of this is eternal and indelible glory.

Gates and Microsoft created the most beautiful myth of the 20th century and sounded the loudest horn of the information economy era, although the process was full of plunder and unequal cruel competition. Whether Gates is a devil or an angel, whether Microsoft is the creator of new technology or a destroyer of business rules, no one can draw a fair conclusion yet, but one thing is beyond doubt:

Gate Gates did not succeed by luck, and Microsoft is not a software empire built on chance. Gates is a computer genius, but he is also a business and management genius. His hard work and sweat in the growth and expansion of Microsoft are extraordinary. His professionalism and enterprising spirit, his far-sighted vision and extremely keen market sense are unsurpassed by anyone.

Gates wrote programs for Lakeside Middle School, including a scheduling software. Gates became obsessed with computers after entering Lakeside Middle School. From then on, he had no intention of taking other classes and spent every day in the computing center. Starting in the 8th grade, he and his classmates helped others design simple computer programs to earn pocket money.

Gates sold his first computer programming work, a time table system, to his high school for $4,200.

Gates dropped out of Harvard University and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, he found a job writing programs for Roberts, paying $10 an hour. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque, where Gates also located Microsoft's headquarters.

In October 2016, "Forbes" released the "List of the 400 Richest People in America". Bill Gates topped the list for the 23rd year with assets of US$81 billion. On March 6, 2018, the Forbes 2018 Rich List was released, and Bill Gates ranked second with $90 billion.

In January 2019, he was selected as one of the "Ten Thinkers Who Have Most Influenced the World in the Past Ten Years" by an American magazine. In March 2019, he ranked second on the 2019 Forbes Global Billionaires list with a wealth of US$96.5 billion. In October 2019, he ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.