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Bill Gates born on October 28, 1955, grew up in Seattle, Washington with his mother, father, and two sisters. His father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle Attorney. His mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher and chairwoman of United Way International. Bill attended public elementary school and a then attended a private school named Lakeside School. There he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. In 1973 Bill entered as a freshman at Harvard University. While at Harvard, Bill developed a version of the programming language “BASIC” for the first microcomputer. In his junior year, Bill left Harvard to devote his time to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Starting up Microsoft wasn’t easy. Bill worked out of his garage for several years, hiring friends he knew and paying them to help him program software. Bill later developed a program cal