Many people know or at least never heard of Bill Gates, a Harvard University student, but did not pass. Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. Bill Gates is a philanthropist, Bill Gates is often set aside profits from his company to charity. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington (October 28, 1955) , to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and Scotch-Irish descent. Gates family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or “Trey” because his father had dropped his own “III” suffix.Early on in his life, Gates’ parents had a law career in mind for him.When Gates was young, his family regularly attended a Congregational church. Continue reading
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