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The Second Richest was doing well in all of the other subjects.
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Man On Earth He then graduated from Lakeside School in
1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT
B Y L U C A S L . G R 8 test and enrolled at Harvard University.
Bill Gates is the second richest man on Earth. Bill Gates dropped out of university in
You would think these kinds of people are far 1975 to pursue his business, Microsoft, with
away from us, but they actually have many partner Allen. Bill Gates and Paul Allen
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connections with us. People all want to earn became fast friends because they both love
money, but some people don’t know how to. computers, even though they have different
Bill Gates is one of the most successful personalities. In 1970, at the age of 15, Gates
businessmen in the world. Microsoft is a well- and Allen started a business together. They
known company that most people have earned $20,000 for the first program they
connections with. Bill Gates is the founder of wrote, but Bill Gates’s parents wanted him
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Microsoft. He studied at Harvard University in to become a lawyer.
1973 and dropped out in 1975. He has two The Altair computer was made by a small
sisters in his family. Now, he is well-known as company in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
an entrepreneur, investor, software engineer called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
and philanthropist. Here’s an interesting quote Systems (MITS). They kept working with
that Gates once said, “Don’t compare yourself MITS until 1977 when the MITS president Ed
with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are Roberts sold MITS to another company and
insulting yourself.” As a Chinese student, I get became a doctor. Yet, Ed Robert really
compared with other kids many times. Our inspired Bill Gates. They sued the new owner
parents kept on saying that, and it’s really to retain their rights they had developed for
annoying. Most Chinese kids probably have the Atlair, and moved the company’s operation
same feelings as mine. to Bellevue, Washington, just east of Seattle.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Although the company didn’t start out
Seattle, Washington. His mother is a teacher smoothly, by 1979 Microsoft was grossing
who helped raise the children and worked on approximately $2.5 million. At the age of 23,
civic affairs and with charities. Bill Gates is Bill Gates placed himself as the head of the
actually very talented at computing. He wrote company. In 1980, IBM was looking for a
a tic-tac-toe program for the students to play software that would operate their PC, and
against the computer. At the same time, he they found Bill Gates. He impressed IBM
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