UNIT 7
------- Bill Gates
成员：
郭丽红
曲瑞
孟会娟
黄赛男
刘婷
Bill Gates
社会充满不公平现象。你先不要想
去改造它，只能先适应它。
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
• Part 1 （para 1):It is a general
introduction about Bill Gates.
• Part 2 （ para 2~6):It deal with Bill
Gates’ personal traits as an
explanation to why he succeeded.
• Part 3 （para7~11):It deals with Bill
Gates’ personal development.
• Part 4 （para 12):Conclusion:Gates’
hopes for future and what others wonder
about his future.
比尔盖茨
When I was 19,I caught sight of the future
and based my career on what I saw.I turn out
to have been right.
As the most famous businessman and the richest
man in the world,Bill Gates has dominated the
personal computing system and modernized the whole
world.Gates’ success stems from his personality:an
unbelievable and at times frightening blend of
brilliance,drive and competitiveness;his time
management skills;saving time and money;his
“multitasking”ability and his management style.Gates’
personal development is arranged by time sequence.In
the end,Gates hopes to be running Microsoft for
another 10 years and then promises to focus on his
family and giving his money away.But one can only
wonder what he will do in the near future.
The high evaluation of Bill Gates
• He's the most famous businessman and the
richest man in the world—worth an
estimated $40 billion in 1997. Without a
doubt, Bill Gates belongs in the same class as
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and
other great minds who changed the world.
The self-described "hacker" has dominated
the personal computing revolution and
modernized the whole world in the process.
Indeed, his classification into any other rank
than this would seriously understate his
impact on the world.
The factors of Bill Gates’s success
• 1 Gates' success stems from his personality:
an unbelievable and at times frightening
blend of high-voltage brilliance, drive and
competitiveness.
• 2 Indeed, if there's one thing that
distinguishes the Gates style, it is his time
management skills. Conservation of time,
energy, and focus are his hallmarks.
• 3 Another trait that makes him so unusual
is his incredible "multitasking
How does he run his company
• Gates runs his company mainly through three
methods
• He bats out a hundred or more e-mail messages a
day (and night)
• He meets every month or so with his top
management panel of experts and advisers
• Most importantly, he holds two or three small
review meetings a day with a procession of teams
working on the company's various products.
The development of Bill and his company
•
When Bill Gates was in the sixth grade, his
parents sent him to see a psychologist. After
a year of sessions and tests, the psychologist
reached his conclusion. "You're going to lose,"
he told Gates' mother Mary. "You had better
just adjust to it because there's no use trying
to beat him." In the 22 years since he dropped
out of Harvard to conquer the world of
computer operating systems and application
software, he has been deadly for competitors
trying to claw their way into the market.
The development of Bill and his company
• In early 1975, at the age of 19, while at
Harvard University, he and Paul Allen
wrote an interpreter for the
programming language used by MITS
Altair, the first commercially available
personal computer. It was their intense
relationship—Gates the workaholic
code writer and competitor, Allen the
dreamy visionary—that laid the first
brick in the foundation of Microsoft.
The development of Bill and his company
•
In 1976, Gates began licensing Microsoft's
software products directly to computer
manufacturers, which dramatically increased
Microsoft's profits. Although MITS soon folded,
Microsoft had already attracted new
customers including, at the time, small
hardware firms like Apple, Commodore and
Tandy.
The development of Bill and his company
•
In 1980, IBM invited Microsoft to write a series
of programming languages for its new
personal computer, the IBM PC. Gates offered
that Microsoft could also produce the
operating systems (MS-DOS). The IBM PC and
MS-DOS were bundled together and
announced to the public in August 1981.
Throughout the 1980s Microsoft moved
steadily upward and by the 1990s MS-DOS
had been exported around the world and
had become the dominant software platform.
By 1995, roughly 85 percent of the world's
personal computers were using a Microsoft
operating system.
The development of Bill and his company
• Today the Microsoft campus is a
"home" for new ideas and products
that currently number over 200. It
has mushroomed to nearly 18,000
employees and $6 billion in profits.
By 1992, at least 3,400 of Microsoft's
employees had become
millionaires from their stocks.
Gates’ hopes for future
Gates’ hopes to still be running Micsoft for another 10
years,he says,and then promises to focus intensely on his
family and giving his money away,but that won’t be the last
you hear of him.Almost everyone in the developed world has
used or is using a product that he wons a piece of,from
surfing websites on Microsoft Explorer to watching movies
brought to us by the distributor DreamWorks SKG.One can
only wonder what he will do in the near future.
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