Young CEO
Bill Gates, about 27, in his Microsoft office in 1982.
Bill Gates: The Early Years2 of 9 Geniuses at Work
Gates watches his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968. Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school, which was around the time this photo was taken.
Much of the computer equipment at Lakeside was bought with proceeds from a rummage sale organized by the students’ mothers. Gates was drawn to programming the machines and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest.
Graduate
Gates during Commencement at the Lakeside School in 1973.
Gates and Allen in Microsoft’s offices in 1982. Started initially in New Mexico, the company moved to Bellevue, Wash., in January 1979.
The Staff
The early team at Microsoft paused for a group portrait in 1978. Gates is at the bottom left.
Lots of Memory
Gates demonstrates the memory power of a CD in 1987.
Bill Introducing Microsoft
Bill and Melinda Gates
Gates’ 40,000 sq. ft. “ecology house” in Seattle – 7 years to built at estimated cost of $97 million (1998.)
Bill Gates gets knighthood from Queen Elizabeth (2005)
Bill Gates playing video games at CES (2005)
Bill Gates hands over beta 2 of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Longhorn Server at WinHEC 2006 in Seattle (2006)
Bill Gates launches Windows Vista and Office 2007 at New York’s Times Square (2007 )
“Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become!!!
