- Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools (Lakeside school) in the world that had a computer
- Most university graduate schools did not have a computer nearly as advanced as he has access to in eighth grade
- At the age of 13 in 1968, he met Paul Allen. Paul Allen was obsessed with the school’s computer and the two hit it off
- They toyed with the computer at their leisure. They quickly became computing experts.
How lucky was he?
- In 1968, there were approx. 303 million high school age people in the world. Source: UN
- About 18 million were in the United States
- About 270,000 lived in Washington state
- About 100,000 lived in the Seattle area
- About 300 attended the Lakeside school
One in a million high-school-age students attended the high school that had the combination of foresight and money to buy a computer.
If there had been no Lakeside, there would have been no Microsoft - Bill Gates