Vocational Leadership and Agents of Change Presentation Bill Gates Vocational Leadership and Agents of Change Presentation

Early Life Seattle, Washington, 1955 Began experimenting with computer programming at a young age In their early teens, Gates and Paul Allen created “Traf-o-Data”, analyzed traffic in Seattle, each received $10,000 Carried on with programming through his college career at Harvard, 1973-75, before dropping out to create Microsoft with Paul Allen

Bill Gates and Vocation for Microsoft His drive/passion for computers was strong enough to drop out of Harvard "To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks."

Vocation for Philanthropy Gates mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, persuaded him to raise money for the United Way, a social service agency According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they have now given tens of millions of dollars to various local United Way chapters As a 2016, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given over $35 billion in grants Gates and Warren Buffet founded The Giving Pledge, group of some of the world’s wealthiest who plan on giving at least half of their worth to charity As of 2016, The Giving Pledge has reached $365 billion pledged