Bill gets life story Bill gates is a co-founder of Microsoft he was born on October 28th, 1955 in Seattle Washington United States his father's name was William Henry Gates senior and his mother's name was Mary Maxwell Gates his father was a prominent lawyer he studied at the lakeside school where he developed an interest in computing he was just 13 when he wrote his first software program on the school's computer and by the time he was in high school he along with some of his friends had computerized their school's payroll system his future business collaborator Paul Allen was a senior at Lakeside at the age of 17 gates teamed up with Allen to form a venture called trafó data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor he graduated from high school in 1973 he was a National Merit Scholar and scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT he enrolled at Harvard College later the same year as a college student he spent a lot of time on the computers though he was no