Dreamers

Colin Jenkins 10b

Who is the “dreamer”, and when did they live?

• Joel Zimmerman or by his stage name Dead Mau5 (dead mouse) was born on born January 5, 1981. He is currently alive

• Joel Zimmerman or by his stage name Dead Mau5 (dead mouse) was born on born January 5, 1981. He is currently alive

What was their “dream”?

• His dream was to Become a music producer and no owns a successful company Mau5 Trap Records and makes his own music.

• His dream was to Become a music producer and no owns a successful company Mau5 Trap Records and makes his own music.

What were some of the obstacles they faced?

• He started off by trying to get recording companies to start using computers for recording but he kept getting turned down because the recording companies wouldn’t embrace the idea of recording and editing music on computers.

• He has had a few health issues recently due to exhaustion.

What failures they experienced?

• Dead Mau5 has offended a few DJs with his comments regarding they’re music

• The Black Eyed Peas copied his beat from one of his tracks in their song “Dirty Bit”. But dead mau5 pretty much shrugged it off.

What did they achieve?

• 3 of his tracks reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart• Best selling artist on beatport 2009• His mix album was Grammy nominated and won 3 Juno Awards• MTV House DJ for MTV music awards• MTV PUSH artist of the week• Guest stared in CSI: Miami episode• Music was in “The Hangover 2”• Won 3 awards and nominated for 4 separate awards at International

dance music awards• He preformed during the medal presentations during the 2011 winter

Olympics• His own Producing company

Who is the “dreamer”, and when did they live?

• Bill Gates The Chairman of Microsoft was born on October 8th 1955

What was their “dream”?

• To a business that would create a software system to run on all computers (Windows). Since the success of Microsoft he has become very rich and invested in other businesses

What were some of the obstacles they faced?

• He dropped out of Harvard University but later on in life after he was successful completed his degree in 2007 about 30 years afterwards.

• His first Business venture failed.

• He/ his company have been sued several times

What failures they experienced?

• Bill Gates was showing a live TV demo of Windows 98 when the computer he was showing crashed in front of thousands of people.

• There have been several problems with Microsoft's windows operating system but they have been fixed over time.

What did they achieve?

• Owns the most successful computer company around

• Is one of the richest people in the world

• Many awards including a Humanitarian award