Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955.
Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child. The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing"
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As a young teenager at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe, where you could play against the computer.
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Gates was once arrested in New Mexico, in 1977.
He was driving without a license and ran a red light.
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Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout.
He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft.
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He's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Today his foundation is the World's Second Biggest philanthropy.