Everyone has heard of Bill Gates,the richest person in the world. Microsoft,the business he started with a friend in 1975,has become the world's largest computer software company,and Gates was the world's youngest billionaire at the age of 31.
His full name is William Henry Gates Ⅲ,and he was born on 28th October,1955,in Seattle,USA. At school,Bill soon showed that he was very intelligent,and was especially good at math and science.His parents decided to send him to Lakeside,the school where he first began to use computers. 13-year-old Bill Gates and his school friend Paul Allen were soon spending all their time writing programs and learning about computers instead of doing their homework!
After finishing school in 1973, Bill went to Harvard, America 's best-known university. The next year, he and Paul Allen wrote an operating program for Altair,one of the world's first microcomputers. The two friends started Microsoft in 1975, and then Gates left Harvard. Before long, Microsoft became a big success. Since then, the company has continued to grow, making most of the world's leading PC software. One reason for his success is that Gates has always been very ambitious and hardworking. This has not left him much time for a normal personal life, but in 1994 he married Melinda French, a Microsoft employee, and in 1995 he wrote his best-selling book, The Road Ahead.
Bill has mixed feelings about spending so much time running Microsoft. "There are a lot of experiences I haven't had, but I do like my jop," he says. When he does find time to take a rest, he likes sports and reading about science. For such a rich person, his life is simple, and he spends little money on himself and his family. When it comes to helping others, though, Gates is very generous. He has already given a lot of money to charity, and says that he plans to give away almost all of his money when he retires.