BUSINESS TYCOON

Bill Gates

Presented By-: Munna kumar

 Bill Gates: At a glance
• Born-: October 28, 1955 (age 54)
Seattle, Washington USA

• Residence-: Medina, Washington, USA

• Alma mater-: Harvard University (dropped out in 1975)

• Occupation-: Chairman of Microsoft

Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Director of Berkshire Hathaway
CEO of Cascade Investment

• Net worth-: ▲US$53 billion (2010)

• Spouse(s)-: Melinda Gates (1994–present)

• Children -: 3
 Early life
• At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School. When he was in the
eighth grade , took an interest in programming the GE system in
BASIC.

• At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data,

to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.

• Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590

out of 1600 on the SAT

• Enrolled at Harvard university in 1973.

 Bill Gates and the Microsoft Corporation
"To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential."
Microsoft Mission Statement
• Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen set about revolutionizing the
computer industry. Gates believed there should be a computer on every
office desk and in every home.

• Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS),

the creators of the new microcomputer

• In 1975 the company Micro-soft was formed, which was an abbreviation

of microcomputer software. It soon became simply "Microsoft"® and
went on to completely change the way people use computers.
 Management style
• From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates
had primary responsibility for the company's product
strategy.

• As an executive, Gates met regularly with Microsoft's

senior managers and program managers

• Gates's role at Microsoft for most of its history was

primarily a management and executive role
 Bill Gates
originality and imagination
• Bill Gates is an unconventional and innovative person, and he is
highly unusual in his manners, appearance, or attitudes.

• Bill enjoys being unpredictable, and he does not conform to

the standards that other people have set.

• He is likely to have a fixation on money, wealth, and material

resources

• Bill's attitudes towards owning, keeping, and sharing will

undergo major changes in his lifetime.
 what can be learnt from Bill Gates
• Focus-: Bill Gates has demonstrated over nearly thirty years the
importance of clarity of thought and execution

• Thinking big-: Along with focus, the ability to dream big and
pursue that with single-minded determination sets Gates apart
from other entrepreneurs

• Learning as a life-long process: Though dropping out of college to

his dreams, Bill Gates has probably read and written more than
most of us ever will.

• Giving back to society:

 Bill Gates Philanthropy

• Being the richest man in the world has also enabled

Gates to create one of the world's largest charitable
foundations

• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has an

endowment of more than $28 billion, with donations
totaling more than $1 billion every year
 Interesting Facts About Bill Gates

• 1. Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND, that's about $20 million a DAY
and $7.8 billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up

because in the 4 seconds it takes to pick it up, he would have already
earned it back.

3. U.S's national debt is about $5.62 trillion. If Bill Gates wants to

pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate $15 to everyone on earth and still be left with $5

million for his pocket money.

5. If Bill Gates were a country, he will be the 37th richest country on

earth.

6. Bill Gates will be 42 this year. If we assume that he still can

live for another 35 years, he has to spend $6.78 million per day to
finish his money before his death.
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