| Bill Gates – A story of Success |
Posted by:
rajiv naidu
Source: rajiv
15/01/2008 |
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in a family having rich
business, political and community service background. His
great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather
was vice president of national bank and his father was a lawyer.
Bill strongly believes in hard work. He believes that if you are
intelligent and know how to apply your intelligence, you can achieve
anything. From childhood Bill was ambitious, intelligent and
competitive. These qualities helped him to attain top position in the
profession he chose. In school, he had an excellent record in
mathematics and science. Still he was getting very bored in school and
his parents knew it, so they always tried to feed him with more
information to keep him busy. Bill’s parents came to know their son's
intelligence and decided to enroll him in a private school, known for
its intense academic environment. It was a very important decision in
Bill Gate's life where he was first introduced to a computer. Bill
Gates and his friends were very much interested in computer and formed
"Programmers Group" in late 1968. Being in this group, they found a new
way to apply their computer skill in university of Washington. In the
next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences
Inc. in which they were selected as programmers. ISI (Information
Sciences Inc.) agreed to give them royalties whenever it made money
from any of the group’s program. As a result of the business deal
signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also became a legal
business.
Bill Gates and his close friend Allen started new company of their
own, Traf-O-Data. They developed a small computer to measure traffic
flow. From this project they earned around $20,000. The era of
Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. In 1973, he
left home for Harvard University. He didn’t know what to do, so he
enrolled his name for pre-law. He took the standard freshman courses
with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard's toughest
mathematics courses. He did well over there, but he couldn’t find it
interesting too. He spent many long nights in front of the school's
computer and the next day asleep in class. After leaving school, he
almost lost himself from the world of computers. Gates and his friend
Paul Allen remained in close contact even though they were away from
school. They would often discuss new ideas for future projects and the
possibility of starting a business one fine day. At the end of Bill's
first year, Allen came close to him so that they could follow some of
their ideas. That summer they got job in Honeywell. Allen kept on
pushing Bill for opening a new software company.
Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Then he formed
Microsoft. Microsoft's vision is "A computer on every desk and
Microsoft software on every computer". Bill is a visionary person and
works very hard to achieve his vision. His belief in high intelligence
and hard work has put him where he is today. He does not believe in
mere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness.
Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companies and
he will continue to stomp out the competition until he dies. He likes
to play the game of Risk and the game of world domination. His beliefs
are so powerful, which have helped him increase his wealth and his
monopoly in the industry.
Bill Gates is not a greedy person. In fact, he is quite giving
person when it comes to computers, internet and any kind of funding.
Some years back, he visited Chicago's Einstein Elementary School and
announced grants benefiting Chicago's schools and museums where he
donated a total of $110,000, a bunch of computers, and provided
internet connectivity to number of schools. Secondly, Bill Gates
donated 38 million dollars for the building of a computer institute at
Stanford University. Gates plans to give away 95% of all his earnings
when he is old and gray.
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