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Bill Gates
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Bill Gates News: Entrepreneur Reflects on His Childhood In New Memoir
Bill Gates is sharing exclusive insight into his childhood in his new memoir that hit shelves on February 4. The first of a three-volume autobiography, Source Code: My Beginnings details the Microsoft founder and philanthropist’s early years, including his upbringing and passion for computers.
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In the book, Gates recalls using a computer for the first time at school and writing his first computer program—a game of tic-tac-toe—at the age of “I made a lot of errors trying to figure that out,” he wrote. “A game of tic-tac-toe is so simple, even kids learn it quickly. But it felt like a triumph to get a machine to do it.”
Gates also recounts sneaking out his bedroom window at night to write code as a teenager and staying awake for 36 hours straight to study programming while attending Harvard University. The memoir ends with the year-old re
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William Jefferson Clinton
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, , in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. In high school, he took the name of his step father, Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He received a law degree from Yale in After graduation, he returned to Arkansas and taught law at the University of Arkansas before entering politics. His campaign for Congress ended in defeat, but two years later he was elected Arkansas Attorney General.
In , Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham, whom he had met while a law student at Yale. Chelsea, their only child, was born in
Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas in , but lost a bid for reelection in He regained the governorship two years later and served until During his 12 years in office, Governor Clinton earned national recognition for his progressi
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Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist (born )
This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft. For other people with the same name, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, ) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect of the company. Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May [a] He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the s and s.
In June , Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife Melinda had established in He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nad