And the Imagine is the year 1980 and you find yourself among a group of businessmen arriving in a small company named Microsoft.

You're here to meet the company's president, a man by the name of Bill Gates.

Dressed in your suit, crisp white shirt, and neatly knotted tie, you look very important.

And indeed you are a significant player in the world of business.

These men are no ordinary executives.

They're from IBM, which during this time was the largest computer maker in the world.

As you wait, a young fellow appears before you.

He seems hardly older than a teenager, but there's an air of confidence about him. You ask him for directions to Bill Gates office, and without hesitation he leads you there.

Much to your surprise, he takes his seat behind the desk. It's then that you realize he is Bill Gates, the head of Microsoft.

Bill Gates is just 24 years old at this time, although he appears even younger, with his

tangled hair, much too large glasses, sprinkling of freckles and his cozy pullover

sweater. However, as soon as he begins to speak, it becomes evident that he possesses a deep

knowledge of computers, which would lead him to become the richest man in the world.

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington.

Due to being the third gates with the name William Henry, his family called him

Trey, which is another way to say the word three.

However, to everyone else, he was simply Bill.

As a child, Bill was very active, spending hours rocking back and forth on his rocking

horse.

This habit of rocking back and forth would become something you'd see him doing

during important business meetings,

he found it helped him to think better.

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