The Story dates back to Seattle. A Person Named JW Maxwell was an entrepreneur in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. He founded the Seattle national Bank at that time. He had a daughter named Mary Maxwell.
As a Child She was very innovative and aspired to become an entrepreneur. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way. She Married William Henry II and had a son named William Henry Gates III, popularly known as Bill Gates, who is the protagonist of our story. Bill’s mother encouraged him to be an entrepreneur when he was a child and took him to various science fairs and he spent most of his time admiring the modern machines of the day. Gates always liked the then modern day computers which were the size of a room. The Lakeside school, to which he went, had a computer which was just lucky for him. He spent hours working on the computer along with his newly acquainted friend Paul Allen when he was supposed to be working on his school subjects.
He formed his first venture Traf-O-Data along with Paul which made traffic counters. When Gates joined Harvard on merit, instead of studying, he spent hours working on computers and slept during the daytime! He then seriously started focusing on computers and dropped out of Harvard.
He then developed a computer called Altair BASIC. He gave a demonstration and it instantly became a hit. Life would never be tough for Gates again. He went into serious programming and developed the famous operating system Windows 95. It had graphical user interphase and accessed web through the internet explorer.
Instantly, Gates had become the world’s first teenage millionaire. From then on, he continued to develop windows operating System and to this day windows XP, windows 7 and windows 8 are probably the most widely used Operating systems in the world. The world had laughed when Gates had said “Every house shall have a computer” for at that time, it seemed too unrealistic to be true but now it seems too unrealistic otherwise. He still remains the world’s second richest man and a philanthropist who owns the charity institution – The Melinda Gates Foundation and gives access to computers to children of all ages.
It is kind of hard to imagine a world which had no Gates. It would have been a world where common man could never use the computers and still feared machines. Bill Gates is probably the most important man of the 20th Century. It is possible for all of us to become like Gates if we have a vision, an impossible vision and make it come true. Gates had decided to create computers in his teenage life. Becoming an entrepreneur was his greatest ambition as a child and kept reading business Magazines instead of comics.
He definitely deserves what he is today – a billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
“Its fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” -Bill Gates
