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ISBN-10: 9353336384
ISBN-13: 9789353336387
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Encyclopaedia Britannica describes Bill Gates (born William Henry Gates III) as an ‘American
computer programmer, businessman and philanthropist’—and rightly so. However, the man and
his achievements are so vast that even a big, fat encyclopaedia would not be enough to document
his entire life.
In his teenage years, Gates acquired the reputation of being quite a hacker. At thirteen, he hacked
his school computer and got himself into a class ‘with a disproportionate number of interesting
girls’. Then, at fifteen, he hacked the computer of a big corporation. He has even been arrested.
His life took a dramatic turn in 1975 when he decided to drop out of Harvard. Soon after, he and
Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft Corporation out of a garage in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By the
end of the 1980s, Microsoft had become the largest software company in the world. A billionaire
since 1986, Gates is currently the second richest man in the world, behind Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
This book is about a man who changed not only the way people live and work every day, but
also redefined the meaning of ‘giving back to society’ by pledging most of his wealth to charity.