Bill Gates Research Paper
Profile of Bill Gates
Profiles of Global Leaders
July 14, 2010
Abstract This paper will outline a profile of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I will provide background information about his upbringing, his early exposure to computers, and his founding of Microsoft. I will then detail his unique leadership skills which have allowed him to take his company from a small upstart to a global icon.
Childhood
William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington to a middle class family. His father was a lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for a bank and the United Way. Bill Gates has one older and one younger sister. His parents had originally hoped that he would become a lawyer.[1] At age 13 …show more content…
He served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives after high school. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[12] and enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft, and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou, with whom he wrote a paper about pancake sorting[13]. Bill Gates never pursued a specific course of study while a student at Harvard but he did spend a significant amount of time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. Later that year, the MITS Altair 8800,[14] based on the Intel 8080 CPU[15], was released and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software …show more content…
The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create useful reports for traffic engineers.
Profiles of Global Leaders
July 14, 2010
Abstract This paper will outline a profile of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I will provide background information about his upbringing, his early exposure to computers, and his founding of Microsoft. I will then detail his unique leadership skills which have allowed him to take his company from a small upstart to a global icon.
Childhood
William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington to a middle class family. His father was a lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for a bank and the United Way. Bill Gates has one older and one younger sister. His parents had originally hoped that he would become a lawyer.[1] At age 13 …show more content…
He served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives after high school. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[12] and enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft, and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou, with whom he wrote a paper about pancake sorting[13]. Bill Gates never pursued a specific course of study while a student at Harvard but he did spend a significant amount of time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. Later that year, the MITS Altair 8800,[14] based on the Intel 8080 CPU[15], was released and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software …show more content…
The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create useful reports for traffic engineers.