The Early Life of Bill Gates

Bill was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He was born into a fairly wealthy family and his father was a successful attorney while his mother was a school teacher. Bill was a bright and well-performed student in his study life. He is strong in Mathematics.

Nearly 13 years, Bill developed for computer and programming as well as enrolled in a private preparatory Lakeside School. At the School, Bill met Paul Allen then they decided to work together to find bugs in a system. Apart from that, they worked with the other two students to write a payroll. So, his talent appeared in the school and many were influences.

Both Gates and Allen are continuing to developing software at the age of 15 years.

The Establishment of Microsoft Corporation

Bill and Paul were both established a software company in name of ‘Micro-soft’ in 1975. This company provides various software products to different firms. This function was performed by Mary Maxwell who is the mother of Bill Gates. The Company has faced some time financial crises due to the use of some pirated software.

IBM is one of the American multinational tech companies that offered Microsoft to develop a program for it. At the time, the company didn’t have any resources to create operating software (OS) and recommended another company Digital Research to IBM for building their OS.

In 1980, a contract was signed by Microsoft and IBM and a year later, Micro-soft became Microsoft Corporation. The first time, IBM has launched their first-ever personal computer with MS-DOS with others like MS-BASIC, MS-PASCAL, MS-COBOL, etc.

Bill Gates Now

Gates has not been involved in Microsoft Company for a few years. Now he has dedicated himself to Philanthropy and community projects. Bill has co-founded ‘The Giving Pledge’ that encourages wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth toward philanthropic causes. Bill has provided around 80% of his wealth to charity upon death. This work gives the lesson to learn from the life of Bill.

Early Life and Education

Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York in 1984. He belongs to a well-educated family. Zuckerberg was interested to develop programming at an early age. He was, 12 years old, created a messaging program as Zucknet that was implemented as an inter-office communication system for his father’s dental practice. His parent saw his ability and success. So, they brought a computer programming tutor while he was still in high school.

Success Story

Many intelligent people attend Harvard University, soon Zuckerberg known as the go-to computer programmer on campus. When he was in his second year in his academy, he had built two programs there are CourseMatch and FaceMash. Both programs were popular but University shut down the programs.

Zuckerberg and his friends partnered to create a social networking site and that allowed Harvard students to connect with each other. Officially, in June 2004, declared as the name ‘The Facebook’.

Many venture capitals were attracted to the use of Facebook. At the first time, Facebook received a venture capital investment from Accel Partners which invested $12.7 million in the site. Facebook got offers from like Yahoo and Microsoft, increased its users. Its market cap touches $932 billion. Whereas Zuckerberg has around 375 million Facebook shares with 60% voting rights.

Current Influence

The net worth of Zuckerberg is $119 billion in 2021 but he will donate at least 50% of his net worth to philanthropic causes before he dies. For example, he donated more than $100 million to save the Newark school system in New Jersey.

When his daughter Max was born in 2015, 99% of their net worth will be given during their lifetime authored an open letter by Mark Zuckerburg and his wife Priscilla Chan. some people were criticized about this and said that Zuckerberg and Chan have set up limited liability corporation, not a charitable trust. As a result, the corporation can make for-profit investment and political donation.

Modi’s positive and realistic attitude brought in his perception of a half-filled glass to him. The bottom half of the glass is filled with water while the top half is filled with air, he believes. This marks that Modi’s optimism, positivity, and attitude towards life. Prime Minister Modi loves the country that shows in the policies and various schemes initiated by him. But the journey of the Prime Minister in the worlds’ second largest democracy was not easy.

Childhood, Struggles, Dreams:

Modi was born in Vadnagar, Gujarat in 1950. There is completed his secondary education. Narendra Modi is also known as Damodardas Modi who had modest in his life. He belonged to a very poor family; his father struggled as a street merchant to support the family. Modi is the third child among the siblings and he spent his early life with his father selling tea along with his brother.

Narendra Modi, In-charge of Student Wing ABVP:

Prime Minister joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a propagandist in 1971 while working in the staff canteen at Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation. Modi oratorical skills came in handy when he made a conscious decision to devote himself to politics. Growin step by step, Modi took the charge of the student wing of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Gujarat.

From BJP’s Gujarat Wing to National Secretary of BJP:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from RSS in 1985 and had proved his mettle by standing out at every responsibility entrusted to him at every step. He became the organizing Secretary of BJP’s Gujarat wing in 1988. Modi in state election drove the party to victory in 1995.

The journey from Gujarat CM to Prime Minister of India:

Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001, and he has been voted back into power for consecutive terms.  ‘India Today’ in 2007 was named the best Chief Minister nationwide. Later, BJP placed in New Delhi, to make way for him and posture him as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party in the 2014 elections. He won the hearts of all Indians.