Bill Gates

(http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp )

My personal hero is Bill Gates. He's the wealthiest man alive. He made all his money with his software company Microsoft. Gates is far from being just an ordinary business man, he is also one of the best programmers. He started with his own company when he wrote OS for one of most popular »PCs« at that moment, Altair 8800 (OS was named Altair Basic). And that piece of software made him top end programmer which is worth about 50-60 billion $. With smart investments and great managing of Microsoft and redirecting it into software that brought him the most money, he made Microsoft the leading computer company in the world. He studied at Harvard and was one of the best students. He started to write software with, Paul Allen.

He is my idol and personal hero because he is intelligent and one of not many people that made their money in a legal way. And I respect him for his ability to "see into the future" of software market.