Bill Gates - Microsoft

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Bill Gates was born on 28th October 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He enrolled in Lakeside School at the age of 13. While in school, he took a great interest in programming. He built the first computer program on General Electric Machine. Bill Gates graduated in 1973 from the Lakeside School and was a National Merit Scholar. He then got admitted to Harvard College in 1973. This is where he met Steve Ballmer. He enrolled Paul Allen at Honeywell in 1974

Gates then decided to start his own software company. It was first named Micro-Soft but a year later the hyphen was removed. Finally on the 26th of November, in the year 1976, the Mircosoft name was registered. It is the number one software company in the world today. Today, Microsoft is one of the top software companies.

Lessons Learnt:

- Hard work always pays off.

- Pay attention to details and stay unique.