Bill Gates:An Extraordinary

Entrepreneur

By Sofia Naznim

AGENDA1

• BACKGROUND

2• TWO GOOD QUALITIES OF BILL

GATES

3• THE INSPIRING BILL GATES

4• FAMOUS QUOTES AND NET

WORTH

1. BACKGROUND

•Businessman, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor• Co-founder, Microsoft (1975)• CEO, Microsoft•Chairman, Microsoft• Works full-time at his own foundation, Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation

Career

• Enrolled in the Lakeside School, at age 13 and started to build interest in programming there.• He wrote his first computer program of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.• Enrolled at Harvard College in 1973 and dropped out of Harvard the next year.

Education

• Wife: Melinda Gates• 3 Children: daughters Jennifer Katharine (19 y/o) and Phoebe Adele (13 y/o), and son Rory John (16 y/o)

Family

2. TWO GOOD QUALITIES OF BILL GATES

Humble

• He highlighted on his effort to improve on his communication and public speaking skills.

• Gates is also known for his wisdom in seeking council from others.

Learn From

Failure

• Before Microsoft, there was Traf-o-Data.

• Gates recalled the first demo failed because the machine ‘didn’t work’.

• They moved on and Microsoft became the largest personal-computer software company in the world.

3. THE INSPIRING BILL GATES

Caring about people 

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world.• It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family” and is a Private

Grantmaking Foundations.• The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and

reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

•About 200 sanitation projects in many different countries and at various scales.•The University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa was awarded US$1.6 million in 2014 to act as a hub for sanitation researchers and product developers.•Donated USD 3m to 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake victims.

Contributions

4. FAMOUS QUOTES AND NET WORTH

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. • Life is not fair; get used to it. • Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of

learning.• I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will

find an easy way to do it.• Net Worth (as of 28/9/2015): $79.2 billion

THANK YOU

Sofia Naznim