leadership styles of bill gates

2. Child Hood
• His name is Henry "Bill" Gates .
• He was born on October 28, 1955
in Seattle Washington .
• He is the son of William H. Gates .

3. School Days
 Enrolled into Lakeside School
 Wrote his first computer program in 8th grade .
 Enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.
 He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT

4. Evolution of
After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated
the Micro computer , Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that
he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. MITS
president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a
few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and
then the BASIC interpreter. resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the
interpreter as Altair BASIC. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft“ and on
November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office
of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

5. IBM Partnership
 In early 1980’s Microsoft sold operating system to
many companies and not IBM .
 IBM approached Microsoft in 1980 .
 Microsoft worked hard and became the dominant
provider of operating software

6. Next what ???
 Microsoft released 1st version of
on November 1985
 Windows replaced text interfaces with graphical
interfaces .
 Capture the majority of operating system market
share .

8. Leadership Qualities
Hard
Work
Vision
Risk
bearer
Agility
and
Ability
Delegation
Task-
oriented

9. Philanthropist
 is the largest private foundation in the world,
founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
 It was launched in 2000 and is said to be the largest
transparently operated private foundation in the
world.

10.  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.
 It had an endowment of US$ 42.3 billion as of 24
November 2014

11. “ If you are born poor its not your
mistake , but if u die poor its
your mistake .”
- Bill Gates