My Inspirations
I have two inspirations
Number 1 is Bill Gates
The American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, is who? This man is Bill Gates. Noted billionaire, he is the most noted business entrepreneur in the personal computer revolution. He is on the list of “the most wealthiest people.”
He was born in Seattle, Washington his father was William H. Gates Sr. and his mother Mary Maxwell Gates, his dad was a lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way.
Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft, and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou, with whom he wrote a paper about pancake sorting.
The following year saw the release of the MITS based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
Gates married Melinda French from Dallas, Texas on January 1, 1994. They have three children.
Number 2
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood.
Born in rural poverty, then raised by a mother on welfare in a poor urban neighborhood, Winfrey became a millionaire at age 32 when her talk show went national. Winfrey was in a position to negotiate ownership of the show and start her own production company because of the success and the amount of revenue the show generated.
Considered the richest woman in entertainment by the early 1990s, at age 41 Winfrey’s wealth crossed another milestone when, with a net worth of $340 million, she replaced Bill Cosby as the only African American on the Forbes 400. Although black people are just under 13% of the U.S. population, Winfrey has remained the only African American wealthy enough to rank among America’s 400 richest people nearly every year since 1995.
These are my two inspirations because they are very succesful people (obviously.)