Слайд 2Biography
The future computer tycoon was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, the
largest city in the northwest United States
Слайд 3Since childhood, Paul Allen and Bill Gates had a reputation for bosom
friends. These two personalities united a lot, but there was something that turned this tandem into a strong alliance - they both got carried away with programming.
Слайд 4At 15, he wrote a program for traffic control together, and earned
$ 20,000.
In 17 years, Bill has developed a program for the distribution of energy of the Bonneville dam, and earned 30 000 dollars.
In 1973, Bill enters Harvard, which was not particularly interesting to him. He played poker a lot and didn’t really know what to do with his life.
Слайд 5He was bluffing: Gates and his partner Allen did not write a
single line of code, but MITS management was interested in the proposal. After a month and a half, Allen presented the finished program to MITS - and it worked. A contract was made with MITS, and Microsoft was born. "The software market was born!" Gates exclaimed then.