William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates, was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955, the second of three children of Mary and William Gates II. Bill Gates has two sisters; he is between an older sister and a younger sister. His father was a prominent and successful Seattle lawyer and the young Bill Gates was expected to follow his father's example. His mother was a lecturer, regent of the University of Washington and president of United Way International. His grandfather was a vice president of a national bank and his great-grandfather was a state representative and mayor. Bill Gates showed ambition and intelligence from a young age. His parents were convinced that he was not challenged at his public school and decided to enroll him in the private, high-ranking Lakeside prep school. Bill Gates first started working with school computers. His mother was on the board that brought a computer terminal to the school linked by telephone to a local computer company. Bill Gates and a small group of students, including his future business partner and also his childhood friend, Paul Allen, created the Lakeside Programmers Group and used all their time to take every opportunity to discover the opportunities of the new technology and train themselves. fundamentals of writing computer programming. The group was even kicked off the computer for a few weeks for hacking the security program and modifying system data. Many members worked at Microsoft as programmers. Bill Gates later enrolled at Harvard University, but withdrew in 1974 to start Microsoft with Paul Allen. Bill Gates had met Steve Ballmer at Harvard, and they worked... middle of paper... his. Bill Gates is the supremacist in his organization as he leads the management team and takes full authority over the team. Even the meetings that take place with Bill Gates are called “Bill Meetings” and show that he is the supremacy. He also interrupts the meeting and questions the members involved in the meeting. This proves that Bill Gates dominates his organization. Self-confidence Self-confidence is a feeling of confidence in one's qualities, judgment and abilities. Bill Gates has great self-confidence, which has greatly contributed to his success. Even in Bill Gates' youth, his self-confidence was noticeable as he, who was in his twenties and running a small Microsoft company, persuaded IBM to adopt his new operating system. If Bill didn't show up full of self-confidence, this wouldn't be possible..