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What Are Bill Gates Major Accomplishments

85.5 billion dollars is the richest man in the world's net worth. Bill Gates was a great person from the start. He has always been hard working, smart and confident. Bill will always be remembered for his hard work, accomplishments and being the creator and designer of Microsoft. Bill Gates had a good life before Microsoft even came along. Bill was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He had two sisters, Kristi and Libby. Kristi was born in 1954 and Libby was born in 1964. Libby has two children. Bill was very close with his parents, especially his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates. She was a civic leader. A civic leader volunteers their services and promotes the meaning of life in your community. Sadly, she passed away in June of 1994...show more content...
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One of Bill's big career accomplishments was creating the world's first microcomputer software company. He was responsible for what might have been the world's first computer virus. A virus is a piece of code that is capable of copying itself into other programs and destroying data. This Microsoft computer software is used widely on PC's. But before Microsoft Bill and his friends created Traf–O–Data. This really was one of his first big projects that he got payed for. But when Microsoft was born they employed more than 4000 people in 5 dozen countries. That helps the economy too. One last career accomplishment was being the world's greatest philanthropist. He created the Gates Learning Foundation, which made sure that public libraries had computers. He also created the William H. Gates Foundation, which provided money to help improve health services. The Gates Millennium Scholars Program helps great student from low income families get into college. But one accomplishment was his wife and children. Melinda French Gates and Bill were married in Hawaii on January 1, 1994, or New Years Day. Bill booked 250 hotel rooms and they had their private wedding. She is now the co chair of the Gates foundation. They had three children, Jennifer 1996, Rory 1999, and Phoebe 2002. Bills current status is that his net worth is 85.5 billion dollars because of his foundations and Microsoft. Bill is still alive. Because he always believed in his product, he Get
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. William was the middle child of William H. Gates II, a very successful lawyer in Seattle, and Mary Gates, his mother, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. William had two siblings, A older sister, Kristi, and a younger sister, Libby. William loved to play games and was pretty competitive at most everything he did. William was a very intelligent child and made outstanding grades in elementary school, especially in math. William got very bored and distracted very easily and tended to get into some trouble. Williams parents kept him occupied by signing him up for activities like boy scouts and reading science fiction books. At the age of thirteen, Williams parents
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