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Bill Gates Success Story

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Bill Gates  is an American entrepreneur, programmer, investor and philanthropist. He and Paul Allen co-founded  Microsoft  which is the #1 software company in the world. In 2015 their revenue was $110.4 billion. Bill Gates is the second richest man on earth with a net worth of  $100.6 billion . He was the CEO of Microsoft until January 2000, currently he is the Technology Advisor to CEO Satya Nadella. He focuses a lot of his time on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that is why he has taken a less demanding role at Microsoft so that he can focus more on  philanthropy . Early Life Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th of October 1955. His father is William H. Gates Sr and his mother is Mary Maxwell Gates. He has one older sister Kristi Gates and one younger sister Libby Gates. At the age of 13 he enrolled in Lakeside School a private preparatory school. While at that school he took an interest in programming the General Electric system in BASIC and was

Meet Vaishak JP, a mountaineering guide for the visuaaly impaired

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While growing up in Kasaragod in Kerala, Vaishak JP had to climb the Chandragiri hill everyday to catch a bus to get to school. Backwaters and beaches weren’t too distant from where he lived. This is perhaps why he believes “everyone should experience Nature’s beauty.” Vaishak’s interest in Nature increased as he grew older. After completing his bachelor’s degree in chemistry, botany and zoology at St Aloysious College, Mangaluru, he joined his grandfather, a forest officer, in exploring the forests of Karnataka. “I learnt map reading from him, and how to scale maps for different forests,” he says. Vaishak discovered his love for mountaineering when he and his friends lost their way for two days in Ettina Bhuja, a hill in southern Karnataka. “It was my first mountaineering experience where my friends and I got lost. We ended up climbing another mountain, which was not part of our plan. That day, I decided that if I went back alive and made another mountaineering trip and go

Author Ravinder Singh talks about his journey as a writer

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Author Ravinder Singh talks about his journey as a writer Four year ago when author ravinder Singh went on a trip to Europe, he had no idea his Adventures would turn into his ninth novel THE BELATED BACHELOR PARTY is a collection of adventures from the trip. " I Kept talking About the incidents from the Book to my publisher and one fine Day he asked me to Write about it! It took over two year of cajoling from his Side to sell me that idea, but now I am glad that he did it' said the writer who was in town to launch THE BELATED BECHLOR PARTY at pages The Book Shop. While it was his second visit to the city as a publish author, his connection to Visakhapatnam dates back to the 90s When he was an enginering Student who studied in Bidar, Karnatka. He would change trains in Visakhapatnam to head home to Burla in Odisha "I had to wait for oVer nine Hours For my next trains and I would spent that time roaming around The beaches or visiting a friend who lived at the Naval Ba