Bill Gates, the Founder and Chairman of Microsoft. He was born in Seattle in 1955, to an upper middle class family. His father was a lawyer; his mother was a member of the board of directors for First Interstate Banc System.
At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school where he wrote his first computer program on GE computer machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. In 1973 enrolled at Harvard College and spent a lot of time using the school’s computers. Gates with his pal Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC, which was the basis for the MITS Altair the first microcomputer available.
Later he dropped out of college and joined with Paul Allen they named their partnership “Micro-Soft” in the year 1975. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. The role of Gates for most of its history at Microsoft was primarily a management and executive role. Without any Management education Gates ran such a big company. This is a great example to show a manager need not necessarily have management education.
Being the richest man in the world more of his wealth goes to charity and especially to the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” which was formed in 2000. In 2006, Gates announced that he would remain “Chairman” and “Chief Software Architect” at Microsoft to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He would be transitioning from full-time work to part-time work at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.