During the coronavirus pandemic, Bill Gates’ name resonated again from the mouths of the antivaccinas. Today, October 28, he is likely to be criticized again on the grounds that he “wants to dominate us with his vaccine,” but will also name him because Gates is indeed on birthdays. A day like today, but from 1955, who would be one of the brightest minds on Earth and key to developing the artifact with which we live day by day called a “computer”. To the origins
Oh, young Bill, you still didn’t know what was waiting for you… did you?
Little William III was born in Seattle, United States, and, at the age of thirteen, came into contact with his first computer: one provided to him by Lakeside School, the elite school he attended. In addition to knowing this computer and being passionate about computing, Lakeside also took Gates to meet Paul Allen, with whom he would found Microsoft years later. In 1975, the two created the company, an acronym for microcomputer and software, and, five years later, the company began to dominate the personal computer operating systems market.
Allen and Gates.
And, since that year, things never stopped. From Microsoft they began to diversify into the technology market, buying companies like Skype and LinkedIn and developing more and more. In 2008, Gates decided to leave the position of CEO of the company (which Steve Ballmer took) to dedicate himself full-time to his Bill and Melindas Gates Foundation, born in 1995 and became the most important private charitable foundation in the world. But their philanthropic work didn’t end there: together with Warren Buffett they founded The Giving Pledge, an entity that commits its collaborators to donate 50% of their profits to those who need it most. It includes characters such as George Lucas, David Rockefeller, Barron Hilton and, of course, Bill Gates.
Buffett and Gates.
At 65, Gates still keeps alive his legacy and latent everything he brought to technological development, enabling the creation of a world completely unknown and unthinkable for his time with which millions and millions of people benefited. I’ve known more about him in this edition of Filo, explains carried out by Lalo Mir.
