Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Early Life

Born to a prominent family, Gates grew up in Seattle and attended the private Lakeside School, where he discovered his interest in computer software and began programming at the age of 13. Gates and friend Paul Allen wrote a scheduling program for the school. While in high school, Gates and Allen founded a company, Traf-O-Data, to analyze and graph traffic data for the city (Edstrom, 2008).

Education

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University. While there, he and Paul Allen developed the first BASIC interpreter for the Intel 8080 microprocessor, as well as a version of the programming language BASIC for ...