William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle

child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey,@ as he was called because of the III, was

sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother, a former teacher now on several

prestigous boards (Moritz, 238). At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after

taking a computer studies class. After scoring a perfect 800 on the mathematics half of the SAT,

he graduated from Lakeside school and enrolled at Harvard University as a prelaw major. As a

student Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without attending and

cramming the night before the final exam. In June 1975, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to

pursue a career in computers full time.

Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay

established Microsoft to produce their Basic for

pilgrimages to Microsoft=s wooded headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to sit at the feet of the

multimedia market. This market spans from virtual reality video games to interactive multimedia

As of 1993 AGates was personally worth more than $2 billion@, and his company, Microsoft, was

Wozniak, had sued Microsoft accusing the company of stealing their Macintosh ideas for the

hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack

industry for much of its existence. If profit margins and stock prices continue to grow and

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