Favorite Leader Report My favorite leader is William Henry Gates III‚ or Bill Gates to most people. Bill Gates is a computer engineer and world-class entrepreneur. He founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with a high school friend named Paul Allen. The leadership role that he serves is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation. Up until 1998‚ Gates was CEO of the company‚ but he relieved himself of those duties‚ and currently is only a software architect and serves on
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On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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Bill Gates is one of the most intelligent and one of the wealthiest people in the world. 80% of the world’s computers use his operating system and software. He was born on October 28‚ 1955 to William and Mary Maxwell Gates in Seattle‚ Washington. I chose this person because he has contributed much to the advancement of computers and to humanitarian efforts. He has given billions of dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. At the age of 13 while attending Lakeside Preparatory School in Seattle
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REPORT‚ BILL GATES 1. Mini Biography Bill Gates is known for his company Microsoft‚ his participation in the computer revolution‚ and for being the youngest self-made billionaire in history. In 1986‚ he launched Microsoft Windows‚ a program that is one of the most used operating systems in the world. Many of today’s adult‚ and perhaps in particular today’s young adults‚ remember the exciting introduction of personal computers using Microsoft software. Childhood William (Bill) H. Gates was
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Des Dearlove Doing Business the Bill Gates Way 1. Explain what you think is interesting about Bill Gates and his career. William Henry Gates III was born on October 28‚ 1955 in Seattle‚ Washington. Bill Gates was born into a very intellectual and well educated family. Throughout the book‚ we receive an impression of him as a very curious person who always seeks for new knowledge. At the age of eight or nine‚ he began to read his family’s encyclopaedia and his interest in technology at a very
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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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Bill Gates has been a CEO of Microsoft in the past and is currently a CEO of Cascade Investment. “Bill Gates founded the world’s largest software business‚ Microsoft‚ and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world” (“Bill Gates Biography” par.1). He started without having anything and took a huge risk of starting the new business by himself. Bill Gates has worked very hard his entire life generating the Microsoft company
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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
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Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. For many years‚ he was the richest. Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth if he had not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity. Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can
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society sees it today. B. Any Idea can be great; implementation of that idea takes careful planning and a smooth technological framework to seamlessly pull it off. C. Choosing to eschew the established ways most seek out their lives‚ Bill Gates chose to cultivate his interests‚ even by getting in trouble with a corporation at a young age while capitalizing on an error in a system‚ and pivot these ideas into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. D. An active dedicated mind that sees
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