Barbarians Led By Bill Gates

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Barbarians Led By Bill Gates

Barbarians Led by Bill Gates
I feel that reading Bill Gates’s biography, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, is like reading computer history during several decades. Marlin Eller, a thirteen- year Microsoft worker, describes Bill Gates’s route to computer world domination in the book, Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. Gates revealed the smart deals, launching products that didn't exist, and defeating many of competitors targeted by the Gates’s juggernaut. The book also shows Gate crushed those competitors with his uncanny ability and smartness, and he worked on philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, is one of the richest men in our planet. He and his partner Paul Allen built the world’s largest software company, Microsoft. Bill Gates grew up in a middle-class family with his two sisters, Kristianne Gates and Libby Gates. His father, William Henry Gates III, was a law student when he met Bill’s mother, Mary Maxwell, who was a student of the University of Washington. Because Bill’s family atmosphere is good and warm, the three children are competitive. He started to be interested in computer staff when he was 13 in the Lakeside School. When Bill Gates first used a computer, computers were so expensive to buy. The school brought a giant and non-screen computer, which is less foundations than now a personal computer. Bill Gates and Paul Allen became addicted to the computer. They wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language that accepted users to play against the computer. In 1970, Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched their own business, but Gates' parents wanted him to finish school and become a lawyer. Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside in 1973. In the fall, Gates enrolled at Harvard University and he thought he would be a lawyer in the future. However, in his freshman year of college, he spent more of his time in the computer lab than in class. In addition, Gates didn’t...

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