Famous People with Dyslexia ~ Business People
William Henry Gates III (born October
28, 1955) is an
American entrepreneur
and the co-founder, chairman,
former chief software architect,
and former CEO of Microsoft,
the world's largest software company. Forbes
magazine's list of The World's
Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person on earth
for the last thirteen consecutive years, with a current net worth
of approximately $53 billion. When family wealth is considered,
his family ranks second
behind the Walton family.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal
computer revolution. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has
pursued a number of philanthropic
endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable
organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, established
in 2000.
Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer
scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus
of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Media Lab.
He is the younger brother of John
Negroponte, former United
States Director of National Intelligence.
William R. Hewlett (1913
– 2001) was the co-founder,
with David Packard, of
the Hewlett-Packard Company
(HP). Hewlett received his Bachelor's
degree from Stanford
University in 1934,
an MS degree in EECS
from MIT in 1936,
and the degree of Electrical
Engineer from Stanford
in 1939. Hewlett attended
classes taught by Fred Terman
at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard during his
undergraduate work at Stanford. He and Packard began discussing
forming a company in August of 1937,
and formally incorporated Hewlett-Packard Company on January
1, 1939. In 1939,
he also married Flora Lamson, and the couple eventually had five
children: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary. He was President
of HP from 1964 to 1977,
and served as CEO from
1968 to 1978,
when he was succeeded by John
A. Young. He remained chairman of the executive committee
until 1983, and then
served as vice chairman of the board until 1987.
In 1995 he received the
Lemelson-MIT Prize Lifetime
Achievement Award.