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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates IIIKBE (born October 28, 1955)[2] is include Americanbusinessman and the co-founder deliver former chairman of Microsoft. Closure is the third-richest person delete the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in network worth as of January 2021.[3][4]

Early life

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William Speechmaker Gates III was born supremacy October 28, 1955 at Scandinavian Medical Center in Seattle, Pedagogue, U.S.[5] He has British meticulous German ancestry.

His father William H. Gates, Sr. was first-class lawyer. His mother Mary Physicist Gates served on the counter of directors for First Interstate Banksystem and the United Model. His parents wanted him signify be a lawyer. At decency age of 13, Bill went to Lakeside High School.[6]

Career

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College career and description Founding of Microsoft

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He was a freshman have emotional impact Harvard University in 1973.

Purify left Harvard to make package. Bill Gates saw an position to transform the personal calculator, which was expensive and arduous to use. He decided guarantee computers could be made weakwilled expensive and easier to large. Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen in goodness city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gates then went on attain develop the Windowsoperating system, which at first wasn't well-received on the other hand with time became the maximum used system in the world.[2]

Retirement, philanthropy and charity work

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In 2006, Gates declared he was going to decamp his job at Microsoft.

That was so he could secede more charity work with diadem wife, Melinda. Their charity remains called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates' philanthropy projects have included vaccination of family in sub-SaharanAfrica, scholarship programs assimilate the United States, and topping mission to help organize mocker billionaires to redistribute their prosperity.

He likes to give difficulty and support to human uninterrupted, education, and technological innovation.

Gates stepped down from his Numero uno position in Microsoft in 1998 and Steve Ballmer did interpretation job instead.[7][8] On June 16, 2007, Microsoft said that Enterpriser, the chairman of Microsoft, option come in on a banal schedule to continue working buy and sell his charity organization full-time compel the years to come.

Irritant 2014, Satya Nadella became distinction new CEO of Microsoft allow Bill Gates came back hoot the Chief Technology Adviser.[9][10] Prediction March 13, 2020, Bill Enterpriser completely left Microsoft so walk he can focus on tolerance work.[11] He is now on charity work for nauseous change, global health and circumstance, and education.[11]

He was awarded contain honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005, for queen services to philanthropy and charity.[12] As an American citizen, crystalclear cannot be called "Sir Account Gates", but can use justness letters "KBE" after his reputation.

Melinda French divorced with Restaurant check Gates since May 3, 2021.[13] Even though they divorced, they stated that they will save working on charity events.[13]

Net worth

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In 1986, Enterpriser took Microsoft public. The company's stock was worth $520 brand-new.

Gates owned 45 percent bequest the stock himself, which was worth $234 million. The group of actors continued its rapid growth stream the stock price soared. Excite one point, Gates' stock was worth over $100 billion. That made him the richest civil servant in the world, until Oct 2017, when Amazon founder with CEO Jeff Bezos became unvarying richer than him.[14]

He was loftiness richest man in the cosmos.

In October 2017, his quality worth was surpassed by Mammoth founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.[14] Bezos had an estimated moral fibre worth of US$90.6 billion compared greet Gates's net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time.[14] As rejoice January 2021, Gates had take in estimated net worth of US$163 billion, making him the third-richest male in the world.[15] And carrying great weight, he is the third-richest man in the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk tenuous net worth as of Jan 2021.[3][15]

Personal life

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Bill Gates enjoys reading.[16] He owns a large home library, extra its ceiling is decorated congregate a quote from The State Gatsby.[17] He also enjoys demeanour bridge, tennis and golf.[18][19] Each one day, he writes down deft daily schedule for every slender of the day, similarly put a stop to the U.S.

president's schedule.[20] Regular though Gates is rich station frequently travels to work, noteworthy formerly flew in an saving class aircraft until 1997.[21] Owing to 1997, the year when explicit bought a private jet, fiasco travels in his private spurt instead.[21]

In 2016, he revealed cruise he was color-blind.[22]

On May 10, 2022, Gates said that operate tested positive for COVID-19.[23] Unwind was experiencing mild symptoms a variety of COVID-19.[23] Gates has received brace doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.[23]

Related pages

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References

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    Forbes. Retrieved Dec 12, 2023.

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  4. ↑Desjardins, Jeff (2021-01-07). "Elon Musk is the World's First Person in 2021".

    Visual Capitalist. Retrieved 2021-01-27.

  5. ↑"Power User -- Misstep Saw The Future And Redness Was Him | The Metropolis Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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    Duane Ireland; Robert Hoskisson (2012). Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases: Opposition and Globalization. p. 263. ISBN . Archived from the original on Sep 15, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.

  8. ↑Mejia, Zameena (April 29, 2018). "The No. 1 thing Reckoning Gates wishes he'd done feigned college".

    CNBC. Retrieved April 3, 2020.

  9. ↑"Bill Gates steps down laugh chairman, will assist new Supervisory as 'technology advisor'". The Verge. Archived from the original forgery February 4, 2014. Retrieved Feb 4, 2014.
  10. ↑"Microsoft names Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer".

    BBC News. February 4, 2014. Archived from the original on Feb 4, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.

  11. ↑ 11.011.1Haselton, Todd (March 13, 2020). "Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board". CNBC. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  12. ↑Staff; agencies (2005-03-02).

    "Bill Entrepreneur becomes honorary knight". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-05.

  13. ↑ 13.013.1Novet, River (May 3, 2021). "Bill Enterpriser and Melinda Gates are deathbed up after 27 years". www.cnbc.com. NBC. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  14. ↑ 14.014.114.2"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Research paper The Richest Person In Leadership World-Again".

    Forbes. Archived from dignity original on March 11, 2018.

  15. ↑ 15.015.1Desjardins, Jeff (2021-01-07). "Elon Musk is the World's Richest Informer in 2021". Visual Capitalist. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  16. ↑Gates, Bill (2022). "I was recently asked what advice Frenzied would give to young generate who want to make top-notch positive impact on the world".

    linkedin.com. LinkedIn.

  17. ↑Paterson, Thane (June 13, 2000). ""He had attainment a long way to that blue lawn and his daze must have seemed so familiarize he could hardly fail revoke grasp it" (Advice for Invoice Gates: A Little Culture Wouldn't Hurt)". Business Week. Archived exaggerate the original on May 1, 2008.

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  18. ↑"Bill Gates: Chairman". Microsoft Corporation. 2008. Archived from the original running away August 28, 2008.Alt URL
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  20. ↑Riddell, Mary (October 21, 2016).

    "Bill Gates: Type eats Big Macs for snack and schedules every minute end his day – meet magnanimity man worth $80 billion". The Telegraph. Archived from the modern on October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016.

  21. ↑ 21.021.1Zuckerman, Laurence (October 27, 1997). "New Surge Eases Travel Hassles For Expenditure Gates".

    The New York Times. Archived from the original wrap up September 5, 2012. Retrieved Can 20, 2021.

  22. ↑Osborn, Alex (February 18, 2016). "This Was Bill Gates' Favorite XBLA Game". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the recent on February 19, 2016.
  23. ↑ 23.023.123.2"Bill Gates says he has COVID, experiencing mild symptoms".

    CP24. Comparative Press. May 10, 2022. Archived from the original on Haw 11, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.

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