Bill Gates

Bill Gates


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Bill Gates, Business Personality

• Born: 28 October 1955

• Birthplace: Seattle, Washington

• Best Known As: Founder and head of the Microsoft Corporation

Name at birth: William Gates III

Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world's wealthiest men.


Born: October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

Education: Attended Harvard University, 1973–1975.

Family: Son of William Henry Gates II (attorney) and Mary Maxwell (teacher); married Melinda French (Microsoft manager), January 1, 1994; children: three.

Career: Lakeside Programming Group, 1968–1969, founder; Traf-O-Data, 1970–1973, founder; 

Microsoft Corporation, 1975–, founder and chairman; 1975–2000, CEO; 1992–1998, president.

Awards: U.S. National Medal of Technology, 1993; Chief Executive of the Year, Chief Executive, 1994; President's Medal of Leadership Award, New York Institute of Technology, 1995; Louis Braille Gold Medal, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 2002; Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2004.

Publications: The Road Ahead (with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson), 1995; Business @ the Speed of Thought, 1999.

Address: Microsoft Corporation, 1 Microsoft Way, Building 8, North O, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399; http://www.microsoft.com.