Bill Gates was born in Washington in America on October 28th 1955. He loved reading and he started off in a normal school but because he was so clever and was brilliant at maths and science his parents sent him to a private school.

He became interested in computer programming when he was only 13. The first computer programe he wrote was using BASIC which was one of the first computer languages.He went on to write a programe which was a computer version of the board game RISK. Bill Gates met a friend called Paul Allen at private school who shared Bills love of computers. They managed to hack into a computer belonging to an organisation called Computer Center Corporation but they were caught. After a time on probation they offered to help the same organisation with any computer problems.

When Gates was 17 him and his friend Paul were offered £20.000 for a programme named Traf-O-Dater which counted traffic.

He went on to Harvard university but his old friend Paul Allen persuaded him to drop out and together they started a new software company called Micro-Soft which eventually changed to Microsoft as we know it today.

IBM in 1980 asked microsoft to write software for there new pc called the IBM pc.This is how micro soft started off to eventually become one off the biggest companies in the world and how Bill Gates started to make his money witch would one day make him a billionaire.

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1. Bill Gates thinks that by 2035 there will be allmost no poor countrys left in the world.

2. If Bill Gates spent $1 million a day it would take him 218 years to spend all his money.

3. Bill gates sat score was 1590 out of 1600.

4. microsoft apple and google are the most valuble companies in the world.