He is the richest man in the world. His former friends, who are now his enemies, hate to even hear his name. His company wants to be with you in your office, your car, and even your kitchen. His name is Bill Gates. There is a lot more to Bill Gates than being the richest man in the world. He is one of the people responsible for setting off the computer revolution, and by doing that, he as changed the way mankind lives forever. Who is Bill Gates? Most people do not even know what it is that he does. This paper will talk about Bill Gates" beginnings in computers, his leading in the computer industry, the creation of Microsoft, and his extraordinary wealth and leadership.        William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. William was a lawyer and Mary was a socialite part-time teacher. Trey, as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his parents.         At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer study class at Lakeside School (an expensive private school in Seattle). Within a year, he and a man by the name of Paul Allan formed the Lakeside Programmer’s Group. The group was commissioned by the town to create a traffic-monitoring program. They constructed an application called Traf-o-Data that calculated the number of cars traveling down a road and would then give the best timing for a
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stoplight.         In 1970, Bill’s parents stated that he was becoming too addicted to computers and made him give up his obsession. With the same enthusiasm he had placed into computers, he dove into his high school classes, achieving better than he ever had before. Even though he tried to be "normal" in high school, he was still very much considered an outcast to those who did not know him. They thought of him as egotistical and nerdy.         However, those who did know him thought of him as energetic and a risk taker. After scoring a perfect 800 on the mathematics ...

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