William Bill Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was a skinny, shy and awkward teenager. His family had a good history in business, politics and community service. His father was a prominent Seattle attorney and his mother served on charitable boards. Young Bill was very good and talented at math and logic. No one could ever know that someday he would come out to be a natural leader and a future billionaire.
             In elementary school he passed all his friends abilities at almost any subject. After his parents noticed his intelligence they decided to enroll him to Lakeside, a private school which is rich in academic environment. At age 12 Gates was first introduced to computers at this school. At that time the computers were in the size of a room and were run by scientists. The following year Gates wrote his first program with his friend called Paul Allen, it was a scheduling program for the school. After a while Gates and Allen founded a company called Traf-O-Data, which analyzed the city traffic data.
             In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman intending to be a lawyer like his father. Gates took the standard freshman courses and signed up for one of Harvard's toughest math courses. He was going fine but his heart was into something else. After finding the schools computer center, he lost himself in the world of computers once again. Allen and Gates kept in contact and discussed ideas for future projects. After Bill's first year in Harvard they both decided to get closer to each other. They both got a job that summer at a company called Honeywell.
             One day at December 1974, Allen was on his way to see Gates, while he was looking at the magazines he saw something that changed his and Bill's lives forever. What he saw was a picture of an Altair 8080, the first microcomputer kit to rival commercial models. They both recognized that this was their biggest opportunity because t...