Speech about one entrepreneur

At this exactly moment I am entering my English class and as lucky guy that I am, I’ll be the “cursed one”(as Kevin said once ) and be the first person to speech.

My teacher is very creative and chose the following theme: Entrepreneurs .
Ohohoho. I was in doubt between Bill Gates(no,it’s not a joke) or Steve Jobs(he’s nice, but also evil (6) ). So, I chose for Mark Shuttleworth, yes, the entrepreneur who was the first African in space and who founded the Ubuntu Foundation, so, also the Ubuntu Operational System.

The text which I’ll speech tomorrow is this:

Mark Shuttleworth

 

Mark Richard Shuttleworth, who was born in 1973, is a South-African entrepeneur that was the second space tourist and the first African in space.

He was born in Welkom, Free State.After he has completed his studies at Diocesan College, he obtained a Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of Cape Town.

In 1995, Shuttleworth founded Thawte, which is specialized in digital certificates and Internet security, and them, in December 1999, he sold it to VeriSign, earning about 575 milion of dollars.

In Semptember 2000, Mark formed a business incubator, and after that, the Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to social innovation which also funds educational and free and open source software projects in South Africa.

This Foundation believes that education is the way to solve all the problems we have nowadays.They say that education and technology are the core that they believe individuals can use it to best elevate themselves into the society, and do the best they can to contribute positively on themselves, their family, communities, and society in general.

In March 2004 he formed Canonical Ltd. for the promotional and commercial support of free software projects, and in 2005, he founded the bigger,actual and most famous Foundation.The Ubuntu Foundation was made with an initial investment of 10 million dollars. Ubuntu is one philosophy , and at the time , one Operational System very solid based on Linux with the slogan:”Linux for human beings”.You can use it to surf on the web, do yours docs, read your e-mail, talk with your friends by instant messaging, mount your own web server and also create your Applications.

And here you can download the voice pack with the correct pronunciation of this text ;D.

Well, at the end of this story, it wasn’t the text I spoke I before it I’ve changed it a lot :/~

It was a horrible speech.