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a brief introduction of Gates.
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Bill GatesA geek who changed the world
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杜经伦 周奕天
王铭聪 朱宇霆
• William Henry Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft.
Introduction of Bill Gates
• On October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was born in the west coast of the United States a family in Seattle, Washington.
• His father is a famous local lawyer, his mother is a director of the bank system, his grandfather, a former president of the central bank.
Senior High School
• In the Lakeside School, Gates met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.
Senior High School
• At the age of 17, Gates sold his first computer programming work, a time table system, the buyer is his high school, the price is $4200.
Harvard
• Gates scored 1590 in SAT and full marks are 1600 points. After that, he entered Harvard University.
Harvard
• In 1973, Gates entered Harvard. In 1974, he met Steve Ballmer, The current CEO of Microsoft.
Harvard
• In Harvard, Gates helped write the Altair BASIC, it was Microsoft's first product.
Drop out of school
• In the junior year(1974), Gates left Harvard. He put all his passion and energy into Microsoft.
Fall in love
• In 1987, Microsoft released a ceremony held in Manhattan, Gates met his future wife Melinda Gates, one of Microsoft's employees. They were married in 1994.
Wealth
• He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the world's second wealthiest person. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates is the world's richest person in 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007
Wealth
Philanthropy
• On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates announced that he will be out of Microsoft company daily affairs in two years, so that the main focus on health and education charity.
Character
• He is known as the extreme individualism. According to one of his high school classmates , Bill Gates declared he would become a millionaire at the age of 30.
Well-known saying
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Dying with great wealth is a disgrace.
Thanks For Watching!Division of responsibilities
Collecting data: 周奕天Collecting pictures :王铭聪
Making PPT & Translation :杜经伦Presentation :朱宇霆
Source of data
Wikipedia & Baidupedia