He has been characterized as the quintessential example of a super-intelligent human being with immense power and wealth. Every minute, every second when you are on your PC, he guides you. Every computer in the world comes with his software pre-installed! With this hint, I am sure, you can gauge the fact that we are talking about Microsoft and the brain behind it—Bill Gates.
The American entrepreneur, philanthropist and the Chairman of Microsoft, was born on October 28, 1955. As a student, Gates excelled in elementary school, particularly in Mathematics and Sciences. At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside | School, Seattle's most exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the school mothers used proceeds from Lakeside's rummage sale to buy an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time in a General Electric Computer. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC
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