Essay on Bill Gates

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With time, Gates has become amongst the richest and most influential people in world. In January 2017, his wealth was estimated at 84. billion US dollars; his worth is equivalent to many African GDP combined. After ensuring that Microsoft is well established, Bill Gates recently retired from working in the Microsoft and turned most of his attention and efforts in developing his charitable foundation called The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates Early Life His father was called William Gates Sr and his mother was named Mary. He Established the Most Successful Computer Software Company, Microsoft Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen were both pursuing their studies at Harvard when they read a cover story in Popular Electronics about a 350 dollar Altair 8800 microcomputer that was made by MITS. It was in 1975, Bill and his friend Paul knew that the price of computers would go down and selling a computer software would be very profitable.

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This was the opportunity that he was waiting for, he dropped out of school, and together with his friend Paul, and they founded Microsoft (previously known as Micro-soft). After one and a half decade, the two friends had created the most successful software in the modern world. He co-developed the programming language basic for Altair. At the age of 31, he was the youngest self-made Billionaire In 1987, Forbes magazine listed Bill Gates among the 400 wealthiest peoples in America. He was worth $1. billion; this made him the youngest self-made billionaire according to Forbes. The record was later held by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook in 2008 when he was 23 years. At the Age of 39, Bill Gates Became the Richest Man in the World The MS-DOS and his other software were very successful, and during the PC revolution, in 1995, Forbes named him as the wealthiest man in the world Failures of Bill Gates that Turned into Strength 1.

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Creativity is in everyone Creativity is a set of mind that can be controlled by everybody. Bill Gates has used his creativity in many ways in his life, he has invented many things and achieved so many things through his creativity. Creativity is paradoxical Creativity requires somebody who is willing to seek help from other people as well as be open to new possibilities. It involves somebody enjoying what he or she is doing but be disciplined toward the results. These are the basic skills of Bill Gates, he enjoys what he does, and he is very committed to the results that he wants. He has changed his plans from time to time so that they can fit the situations or the available market. Striving for accuracy and precision. Bill Gates has always wanted to be perfect; he might not be perfect because he has also failed in some cases but it is evident in his life that he wants the right things.

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This is the reason why he is always working hard to improve on what he has done and coming up with new inventions and ideas. Applying past knowledge to new situations. Works Cited Nabil Amara, Disentangling competences: Interrelationships on creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. New York 2015. Print Christian Byrge Embodied creativity training: Effects on creative self-efficacy and creative production51-52. New York 2015. Print.

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