Bill Gates early life Bill Gates is a philanthropist American who was born in 1955. His father, William H. Gates, his mother, Mary Maxwell, and his two sisters, Kristianne and Libby, were great people, who provided him with a suitable atmosphere for exploration. Although the three children strived for excellence, Bill Gates proved to be more brilliant than his sisters were, and he began outshining them in education. Bill Gates studied at Lakeside school, which was lucky enough to be a beneficiary of a Settle computer company that offered computer classes. The computers marked a new beginning for his career, as Bill Gates spent adequate time working at the computer terminal in his school (Lenkowsky 18). At the age of 13, he was already doing some elementary computer programming, and he became friends with Paul Allen, who was also interested in programming. The two would spend their free time generating programs, and occasionally, they hacked computer programs to obtain free computer time. This was very selfish of the two boys, and before long, the computer providers barred their school from using the computers. However, only the mischievous boys could debug the program; therefore, they offered to do it as they generated some useful programs for the affected institutions. Gates and Allen went into business in 1970, and they earned $20000 for developing a computer program to monitor traffic in Settle. The achievement triggered them to begin their company immediately, but they had to go to university to fulfill the dreams of their parents. Bill Gates joined Harvard University to study and become a lawyer as his parents wished, but the literary spent more time in the computer lab than he did in class. Fortunately, Bill Gates was a quick learner, who could take some few minutes to study the class notes and outperform his classmates in tests. On the other hand, Bill Gates’ ally, Paul Allen, joined the Washington State University, but he cut off his stay at the university to follow his passion. He started working for Honeywell Company, and before long, Bill Gates also terminated his studies to join him at the workplace. After learning about an Altair 8800 mini-computer kit, the two boys had wild thoughts of what a computer was capable of doing. They immediately contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the company that had made the computer Altair. Although they did not have the simplest idea about the Altair, they declared to be working on a program that would run the Altair computer. Ed Roberts, the president of MITS at that time, believed in the boys, and he ordered them to go ahead and present a demonstration of the program. Although the boys had never operated an Altair, they scrambled to formulate the software, and fortunately, the trial software worked perfectly. MITS hired Gates and Allan to work for the company, and by 1975, the two had already formed a partnership called Microsoft. In less than a year, the Microsoft Company was blossoming, and Bill Gates became the Chief Executive Officer (Lenkowsky 16). At first, the company distributed its software free, but later on, Microsoft retained the rights for the software that they developed. Within no time, the company had employed 25 people, who could develop programs and market them to facilitat