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Bill Gates is not only the co founder of the very successful computer software company Microsoft but he is also one of the world s richest men with 90 2 billion He has used his wealth to help poor people especially children all over the world lead better and healthier lives Bill is one of the biggest philanthropists on earth The Early Years Bill Gates was born on October 28 1955 in Seattle Washington Bill Gates father is William Gates his mom was Mary Gates and his two sisters were Kristi and Libby Bill had good grades at the start of his life but he got bored of school and started getting bad grades Bills parents decided to move him to a private school and he started getting better grades His private school was one of the first schools to get access to computers Bill and some of his friends immediately got into programming In 1968 they started up a group called the Lakeside programmers group LPG After a while they got a job at the Computer Center Corporation CCC but soon CCC went out of business In 1970 Bill Gates and and his friend from Lakeside programmers Paul Allen made Traf O Data which measured traffic times Bill and Paul made 20 000 In 1973 Bill went to Harvard but in his first year there he learned about the first micro computer the Altair 8800 and decided to write programming language for it Bill did not even own an Altair 8800 but he and Paul wrote a program for a big computer to work like the Altair 8800 When they sold the program in 1975 they needed a business name and because they wrote the program for a micro computer they called the company Microsoft Bill was only 19 years old when he founded Microsoft The Middle Years In 1976 at age 21 Bill quit Harvard to focus on his company
