William H. Gates Sr. and Mary Gates, a board member of the United Way, William Gates III became the co-founder of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world and the purveyor of the operating system Windows,Gates was a student at the exclusive Lakeside School in Seattle, writing programs on a school typewriter with his friend upperclassman Paul Allen. While Gates was an undergraduate at Harvard in 1975, the two men pitched their programming language BASIC to MITS, a company that was marketing an early personal computer, the Altair 8800.
Gates work together to expand opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people by collaborating with grantees and partners.Gates began his major philanthropic efforts in 1994, when he created the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on global health. Three years later, he and Melinda created the Gates Library Foundation, which worked to bring public access computers with Internet connections to libraries in the United States.Gates left Harvard University in his junior year to focus on Microsoft, the company he founded with his childhood friend Paul Allen. As chief software architect and chairman, Gates led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software, services, and solutions.
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