Business Leader

I think that Bill Gates is the most successful business leader in the United States today. He is an American entrepreneur, software executive, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 9% of the common stock.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is widely admired, his business tactics have been criticized as anti-competitive and in some instances ruled as such in court. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates excelled through elementary school in math and English. When he was thirteen he enrolled at a middle school named Lakeside school. It is one of the best schools in Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, some moms did a yard sale to buy a computer for the school, Gates was so interested that he convinced the math teacher to let him go work on the computer instead of him taking math class. He got a 1590 on his SAT's which then lead him to a school named Harvard. After His college life he worked with a man named Paul Allen and they invented Microsoft. Microsoft is a very big company and it is continually growing. It started with just Bill Gates and Paul Allen but now it is employing over 30,000 people. Some people discouraged him not to start is own company because it is very difficult to make money but he proved them wrong and now is the richest man in the world.