Bill Gates is many things: the richest person in the world; the ruthless businessman who co-founded Microsoft and led it to domination of the computer software industry; and now, the leading global philanthropist. When Gates was born in 1955, no one in the world owned a personal computer. A window had a pane of glass. A mouse was a rodent. As a teenager, Gates realized how computers were about to change the world, and made his fortune by riding that wave; modern teens look to him as their model of how technology can be turned into wealth. Marc Aronsonâ's biography is a probing portrait of a man whose name is a household word.
When Bill Gates was born in 1955, no one owned a personal computer. Gates envisioned what a computerized society could be and he set out to lead the way, building the Microsoft empire with single-minded drive. Today, the man who made his fortune by putting the whole world in touch now hopes to improve lives around the planet.
- Genre: Biography + Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Computers + Internet, Business + Money Management
- Subgenre: General, Biography + Autobiography / Science + Technology, Motivational
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Viking Children's Books
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: December 26, 2008
- Date Published: December 26, 2008
- Author: Marc Aronson