"<Student’s Last_Name>1<Student Name><Professor Name><Course ID><Date>Informative essay about Bill GatesBill Gates was born into a wealthy family as William Henry Bill Gates III, in Seattle,Washington, on 28th October 1955. He is well-renounced American business tycoon, a computerprogrammer as well as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s biggest PC softwareorganization (Verger). The formation of the company, Bill Gates held numerous positions in thecompany, from CEO to Chief Software Architect. Besides, being a business tycoon, he is well- known as an investor, philanthropist, and author. His parents’ names were William Gates Seniorand Mary Maxwell Gates. Born to the famous lawyer, Bill Gates thought of pursuing his careerin law and hence got admitted to Harvard with pre-law courses. In 2017, it is seen that the networth of Gates assets is estimated to be near US$84.2 billion. Due to his philanthropic nature, hepursued a large number of endeavors and also contributed the huge amount of one to scientificresearch and charitable institutes (Doughty, 1). Bill Gates is considered to be one of the mostgenerous people in the world by the global media. This essay will be discussing the early life ofBill Gates along with his growing years leading to his career. It also further discusses theinvention of Microsoft by Bill Gates and Paul Allen along with charitable foundations in hiscareer.<Student’s Last_Name>2Bill Gates began showing his interest towards computer programming from the subtle ageif 13 when he was a student at Lakeside School. He took an interest in BASIC and wrote his firstprogram on the GE computer (Harman, 350). It was an application of tic-tac-toe that facilitatedgamers to play the game against the computer system. He was very fascinated with the way thatthe computer system used to execute the code properly with perfection. Gates and three otherstudents were banned from using the PDP-10 system that belonged to CCC (Computer CenterCorporation). It was because these students were caught exploiting the bugs in the operatingsystem of the computer for obtaining free computer using time (Horvath and Walter, 87).Afterthese students had been banned, they were asked to find out the bugs in the software of CCC inexchange for free computer time. It, therefore, resulted in gates visiting the CCC’s offices forstudying the source code those were used in various programs, which ran on that system. At thattender age, he studied the source codes of different programs that included Lisp, FORTRAN, andeven machine language. In 1970, when CCC organization was dissolved, Information SciencesInc. hired students of the Lakeside school for writing a pay-role program in COBOL; providingthem both royalties and computer time in exchange for it (Levine, 1). At the young age of 17,Bill Gates and Paul Allen, his classmate of Lakeside school, formed an innovative venturenamed Traf-O-Data, which is based on Intel800 processor. Bill Gates after graduating withdistinction from Lakeside school and scoring 1590 marks out of 1600 in NMS (National MeritSchool), he made his way to Harward College. He even pursued his desire and passionthroughout his college life. He took rigorous mathematics and computer science courses alongwith law in the college. At Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Bill Gates in2014 and was appointed as the new CEO of Microsoft. In the 2nd year of his studies, Gatesinvented an algorithm as a solution to some unsolved problems for pancake sorting (Lin, 2130). <Student’s Last_Name>3He held the record of devising the fastest version of finding the solution to the problem and hissolution was later published in the University. Gates was still in contact with Paul Allen duringhis college days and after two years; he left Harvard and moved to Boston. In 1975, Bill Gates incollaboration with Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which was initially known as Micro-Soft.He was married to Melinda French in 1994, and the couple had three children, two of them aredaughters and one son. When Bill Gates reached the height of success and achievement in life;his attention was shifted towards benevolence and philanthropy (Mintz). At the very beginning, they used BASIC as their programming language in theirmicrocomputers (Morscher and Jacob, 1015). In 1980, the Microsoft also created DOS OperatingSystem (OS) and delivered it to IBM at the huge amount of $50,000. After than Microsoft’s OSbecame popular and Windows, an operating environment was introduced in 1985 for MS-DOS.Microsoft office was established in 1989, and the package consisted of several applications likeMicrosoft Excel and Word. This achievement of MS Office created a monopoly on the PCsoperating systems. Microsoft’s rising success was prevailed in the entire nineties and 2000, BillGates was the Chief Software Architect in the organization, and he stepped down from hisposition of CEO (Nsoedo, 186). In the year 1979 to 1981, the growth of Microsoft exploded, andthe number of staff members was increased successively. The revenue generation also increasedfrom $2.5 to $16 million. In 1983, Microsoft spreading globally and 30% of the globalcomputers were running on Microsoft’s software. In 1985, Microsoft launched Windows, and in1986, Bill Gates took the organization to the public with an offering of selling its shares at thecost of $21 per share. Bill Gates, in his early thirties, became a millionaire and held 45% of theMicrosoft’s shares (Parmar, 194). Apart from being a prestigious and ruthless businesscompetitor, one of the prestigious aspects of Bill Gates being is Charity. He gives away his "