Life in Bill’s Eyes
Who is Bill Gates?
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Bill from the Gates
Bill Gates’ Socials
Bill in His Business World
Bill’s Bingo!
Bill the Drama Pill
Bill’s Gate to Good Management
Bill’s Bills
Bill’s Mentimeter
Resources
Bill from the Gates
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Bill from the Gates
Microsoft’s
chairman
until 2014
businessman
Net Worth of $124 Billion as of April
2021
YOUNGEST
BILLIONAIRE AT 31
IN 1987
Presidential
Medal of
Freedom in
2016
100 MOST
INFLUENTIAL IN THE
20TH CENTURY
philanthropist
technologist
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation
Bill Gates’ Socials
USERNAME | @billgotbills
NAME | William Henry Gates III
BIRTHDAY | October 28, 1955
BIRTH PLACE | Seattle, Washington, U.S.
FOLLOWING
PARENTS | William H. Gates Sr. (Father) & Mary Maxwell (Mother)
SISTERS | Kristianne Gates (Older Sister) and Libby Gates MacPhee (Younger Sister)
EX-SPOUSE | Melinda French
CHILDREN | Jennifer Gates, Rory Gates, Phoebe Gates
Bill Gates’ Socials
Bill’s Education
Bill and
His Mom
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volunteering in schools,
community organizations
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entered Lakeside
School in 1967
entered Harvard
University in 1973,
originally planning to
take pre-law
dropped out of
Harvard in 1975
Bill and Paul
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high school bffies~
the “computer nerds”
business partners
(Traf-o-Data, Microsoft)
Bill in His Business World
Bill in His Business World
formed in 1975, in Albuquerque, NM
“Micro-Soft” (“micro-computer” + “software”)
Altair— BASIC software; legal trouble
move to Bellevue, Washington; $2.5 M
IBM— MS-DOS; licensing fees and dependency
became incorporated in 1981; $16 M
went public in 1986— IPO of $21/share
2012 (WINDOWS)
Microsoft Office in 1990
Bill in His Business World
1975-1980 (DISCO)
1980-1982 (METAL BANDS)
1982-1987 (BLIBBET)
LATE 1987-2011 (PAC MAN)
Bill in His Business World
Bill in His Business World
founded in 2000, based in Seattle, Washington
2136 Grants
$5.8B Direct Grantee Support
1357 Grantees
41 Program Strategies
1763 Employees
Our mission is to create a world where
every person has the opportunity to live a
healthy, productive life.
Washington, D.C.; Beijing, China; Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia; Berlin, Germany; New Delhi, India;
Abuja, Nigeria; Johannesburg, South Africa;
and London, United Kingdom
Bill in His Business World
Bill in His Business World
Bill in His Business World
Bill’s Bingo!
Check your
GMails!
Bill the Drama Pill
BILL & MELINDA DIVORCE
27 years of marriage
“...sought to initiate an intimate
relationship with a company employee
in the year 2000...”
-Frank X. Shaw, a Microsoft spokesman“There was an affair almost 20 years
ago which ended amicably...”
-Bridgitt Arnold, Mr. Gates’
spokeswoman-
Jeffrey Epstein
guilty to soliciting
prostitution from a
minor
Bill the Drama Pill
“the world is not ready
for the next pandemic”
Bill the Drama Pill
GATES VS. JOBS FEUD
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MACINTOSH
COMPUTERS
a graphical user interface or
GUI
advertising campaign
MICROSOFT OS: Windows
MACINTOSH OS: Mac
lawsuits & sueing
Bill’s Gate to Good Management
personally reviewing every line of code, rewriting the code himself if
necessary
delegate tasks effectively— recognize your strengths and weaknesses,
and bring in the right people that you know you can trust
think of all the possible cases and considers everything that could
possibly happen
confrontational management style challenged employees and their
ideas to bolster the creative process and foster innovation
Bill’s Gate to Good Management
keep your business dynamic, not static; keep evolving and adapting to
stay relevant
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two
years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t
let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
started Cascade Investments to manage all his investments outside of
Microsoft— separating and dividing up wealth and investments
Bill’s Bills
MICROSOFT
“to serve globally the needs of communities and fulfil our responsibilities to the public”
BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
“in the perception of the general public to a certain extent”
AWARDS
#1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2018
#1 for Environment and Social Score
#2 on JUST Capital’s Top 10 Tech Companies
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“Your most unhappy
customers are your
greatest source of
learning.”
“The belief that the
world is getting
worse, that we can’t
solve extreme poverty
and disease, isn’t just
mistaken. It’s
harmful.”
“Of my mental cycles,
I devote maybe 10%
to business thinking.
Business isn’t that
complicated.”
Bill’s Mentimeter
One takeaway from Bill Gates’ life?
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Life in Bill’s Eyes
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