William henry gates

WILLIAM HENRY GATES
William Henry Gates III ( Eng.  William Henry Gates III ; October 28, 1955 , Seattle ^[5] , Washington ), better known as Bill Gates ( Eng.  Bill Gates ) ^[6] [7] - American businessman and public figure , philanthropist , co-founder (with Paul Allen ) and former largest shareholder of Microsoft. Until June 2008, he was the head of the company; after leaving office, he remained as its non-executive chairman of the board of directors. He is also co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway , CEO of Cascade investment.
In the period from 1996 to 2007, from 2009 to 2016 - the richest man on the planet according to Forbes magazine .
Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest philanthropists: between 1994 and 2010, he donated more than $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ^[8] . In 2010, Gates signed the Giving Pledge and made a proposal to all billionaires to donate half of their fortunes to charity
Bill's great-grandfather was a mayor and senator, and his grandfather was vice president of the National Bank. Gates was born in Seattle , Washington , the son of corporate attorney William Henry Gates II and board member of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and USWest, United Way National Council Mary Maxwell Gates . In the family, Bill's nickname is Trey (the word "trey" means three in card games and is associated with the "numbered" prefix to the name). Gates has 2 sisters: the eldest is Christy and the youngest is Libby.
Gates attended Seattle 's most privileged school, Lakeside, where he was able to develop his programming skills on the school's minicomputer . At the age of thirteen, Bill wrote his first program, the Tic-Tac-Toe game in the BASIC programming language . In the eighth grade, in a programming class, he met tenth grader Paul Allen . With his friends, Gates tested the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 computer., owned by Computer Center Corporation (CCC). When the time allotted for Bill and his friend Paul to work in the CCC expired, they hacked into the program. For computer hacking, four students at the school - Rick Wayland, Kent Evans, Paul Allen and Bill Gates - were banned from working on computers throughout the summer. The initiator of the punishment was the Computer Center Corporation, whose computer was hacked by the students. After the punishment was over, the students offered the company to find bugs in their software for the opportunity to work on the company's computers. The company agreed, and Gates and his associates studied many software sources written in languages ​​such as FORTRAN , LISP , and machine code . This collaboration continued until1970 until the company went bankrupt. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired four students (including Bill and Paul) to write a payroll program. The program was needed in the Cobol language , in return the guys received free working time on the PDP-10 . They called their company Lakeside Programming Group, but they could not complete the work.
At school, Gates did not excel in grammar, civics, and other subjects he considered trivial, but received top marks in math. By the end of elementary school, Gates' bad behavior began to worry his parents and teachers so much that he was referred to a psychiatrist .
At 17, Gates, Paul Allen, and Paul Gilbert founded Traf-O-Data. The name was coined by Gates from "jack-o'-lantern" - pumpkin lantern. The company's goal was to create meters to read traffic and generate reports for road engineers. The Traf-O-Data device was sold from 1972 to 1982. On this project, Gates and Allen earned 20 thousand dollars ^[11] .
December 25, 1972 ( Christmas Day ) Bud Pembroke, the one who invited Bill and Paul to work for Information Service Inc., invited them to work for TRW . A large software project was underway for the Bonneville Energy Authority using the PDP-10 .