William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. He is also the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr., a successful Seattle attorney, and Mary Maxwell, a former schoolteacher. Kristi is his older sister and is his tax accountant, and Libby, his younger sister, lives in Seattle.
Gates attended Lakeside School, Seattle's most exclusive prep school, where he was able to develop his programming skills on the school's minicomputer.
At the age of fourteen Bill Gates and his programming buddy thought up the idea for a traffic counting computer which would later be named 'Traf- o-Data' and earn them 20,000 dollars. But when word got around that the computers were being sold out of a basement by a couple of teens the business fell through. Bill Gates entered the University of Harvard as a......
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