Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Gates i Seattle, Washington, i te Oketopa 28, 1955. Ko ia te tama a William H. Gates Sr. (b. 1925) me Mary Maxwell Gates (1929<unk>1994). Kei roto i ana whakapapa nga Ingarihi, Tiamana, Irish, me nga Scots-Irish. He roia rongonui tona papa, a ko tona whaea i mahi i runga i te poari kaiwhakahaere mo te First Interstate BancSystem me te United Way. Ko te tupuna matua o Gates ko J. W. Maxwell, he perehitini putea a motu. He tuakana ta Gates, ko Kristi (Kristianne), he tuahine iti, ko Libby. Ko ia te tuawha o tona ingoa i roto i tona whanau, engari e mohiotia ana ko William Gates III, ko "Trey" ranei na te mea ko tana papa te "II". I noho te whanau ki te rohe o Sand Point o Seattle i roto i tetahi kaainga i pakaru i tetahi awhiowhio onge i te whitu o nga tau o Gates. I te timatanga o tona oranga, i kite a Gates e hiahia ana ona matua kia whai ia i te umanga ture. I a Gates e tamariki ana, i haere tonu tōna whānau ki te hāhi o te Congregational Christian Churches, he rōpū Porotetani Hurihuri. I whakatenatena te whanau ki te whakataetae; i kii tetahi manuhiri "kaore he mea nui mena he ngakau, he pickleball, he kaukau ranei ki te tauranga... he utu tonu mo te wikitoria, he whiu tonu mo te ngaro".I te 13, i uru ia ki te Lakeside School, he kura whakariterite motuhake ka tuhi i tana papatono rorohiko tuatahi. I a Gates i te reanga tuawaru, i whakamahia e te Karapu Mothers i te kura nga moni i puta mai i te hoko rummage a Lakeside School ki te hoko i tetahi Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal me te poraka o te waa rorohiko i runga i te rorohiko General Electric (GE) mo nga akonga o te kura. I hiahia a Gates ki te whakamahere i te punaha GE i te BASIC, a i murua mai i nga akomanga pāngarau ki te whai i tana hiahia. I tuhia e ia tana papatono rorohiko tuatahi i runga i tēnei mīhini: he whakatinanatanga o te tic-tac-toe i āhei ai ngā kaiwhakamahi ki te tākaro kēmu ki te rorohiko. I miharo a Gates ki te mīhini, me te āhua o te whakatinanatanga o te waehere pūmanawa i ngā wā katoa. I a ia e whakaaro ana ki taua wā, ka mea ia, "He mea tino pai tonu i roto i taua mīhini". I muri i te karapu whaea...  Pātai: he aha i hiahia ai a Gates ki te mīhini?
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