A good example of this is Bill Gates the success story who with his curiosity, perseverance and vision has come to achieve the aim of turning an idea into reality and into one of the greatest international known companies. Being the founder of Microsoft, Gates leading to the direction of creating the personal computer technology world known as the technological age today.
Childhood Curiosity
William Henry Gates, popularly known as Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle Washington. As a child, he had always been curious to how things worked especially computers. Bill Gates attended the private Lakeside prep school since early 1973 and by then the school got a block on General Electric computer times at their dispense. This made Bill Gates exposed to programming systems for the first time. He immediately became engrossed in following the instruction manual to learn how to programme the G E system in basic computer language. Paul Allen, a student at Lakeside, two years older than Gates, made only one: the two friends became captivated with anything to do with computers.
When the Lakeside Mothers Club agreed to contribute $3,000 to buy time on the computer for the students, Bill Gates developed a school scheduling program, as well as a program that would sort students out into classes based on prerequisites. Traf-O-Data was jointly created by Bill Gates and Allen in 1975 while they were still only 17 years old, the precise was involved in analyzing traffic information. For this they earned $20000, which is can be said was the initial manifestation of Bill Gates as an entrepreneur.
The Road to Microsoft
Gates finished at Lakeside in 1973, and he joined Harvard University. He was not fully sold on an undergraduate education at that though. Many of his time at Harvard was engaged in coding up to his second year when he decided to drop out and pursue full time programming of computers and even starting a company.
Ever since Gates and Allen achieved so much success during there teen years, the two were eager to stART there own company. Gates and Allen saw their chance at the release of MITS Altair 8800 to hobbyist market in 1975. The Altair was one of the first personal computers on the market, but it required software to make it easy to use and visually attractive to people other than hobbyists. They contacted MITS indicating their desire to produce a version of the programming language known as BASIC for the computer. That Gates and Allen did not have a working version of BASIC for the Altair yet proved not to be a problem. They were contracted by MITS within days of signing and busily wrote software that made the Altair easier to use.
The conception of a complete different version of BASIC completed, Gates and Allen formally established their initially designated company Micro-Soft. The first office was in Albuquerque just two blocks away from MITS and in the following years Microsoft continued to sell BASIC for a license to other makers of personal computers, by which this start up made sure to establish its supremacy in software programming.
The Move Back to Seattle
In 1979 MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) was developed and in the following year, Microsoft parted ways with MITS to go it alone for once more in the Gates’ home town Seattle, Washington. In the 1980s Microsoft kept on expanding at a fast rate to become one of the most successful too companies in the field of software. They came up with software application, operating systems and programming tools and all this while Gates was holding high grounds for the company in personal computing..
Windows 1.0 appeared in 1985 as a partial attempt at creating a efficient graphical interface and whilst it can be considered as was a visionary step, reception to the product was relatively underwhelming. Over the subsequent ten years Gates was managing the production of Microsoft software at the same time as expanding the Microsoft production line. Windows updates for Windows at long last convinced diehard PC users while Microsoft Word and Powers Point applications became commonplace especially in commercial organizations.
The Stuff of Legends
While Microsoft’s success grew under Gates the company show fleeted more so in 1987 when at 32 years of age Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire in US largely credited to the success of Microsoft stock. The legendary status Bill Gates possesses as someone who created a personal technology behemoth and essentially kickstarted the computer revolution has if anything exponentially expanded since stepping back from direct control of Microsoft in 2008. Even though he has long left management of the company and is not an active employee at Microsoft itself anymore, Bill Gates is still spends time, money, experience, and is also part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as being an influential figure looking at the future of the technology.
From Lakeside high school to Harvard dorm rooms and to the birthplace of Microsoft and its early days writing code, Bill Gates was driven by an almost obsessional work ethic and the focus of a man with a clear vision. Fuelled by curiosity and revelations on how computer programming might improve the lives of persons around the world, Gates revolutionized technology and entire enterprises. Bill Gates brilliant idea helped to create Microsoft, a key player in the computer industry to this day.
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