William Henry "Bill" Gates was born on 28th of October 1955 in Seattle,Washington,U.S. He is a business magnate,author,philanthropist and investor.In 1975 along with his Harvard pal Paul Allen,founded the biggest PC company in the world,Microsoft. During his time at Microsoft he served as CEO,chief software architect,chairman and was the largest share-holder until May of 2014.
Bill Gates' child Microsoft,is a multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond,Washington that develops,manufactures,licenses and sells computer software and hardware,consumer electronics and personal computer(also referred as PC). It is best known of its operating system,Microsoft Windows. But it does not end here. The giant tech company provides web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Edge,gaming consoles like Xbox,and also tablets. Until 2014,Microsoft along with Finnish telecommunication company Nokia,had their own smartphones on the market.
Gates showed his passion for computers at young age. When he was 13 years old,practically a child,he wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. Once the school learned about his abilities,they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes. He was a very good student,scoring 1590 points out of 1600 in the SATs,he even read the entire "World Book Encyclopedia" series during his teen years. Even these days he claims to read over 50 books a year. Though,we have to say that this did not stop him from dropping out of Harvard University(like many successful entrepreneurs did).
Despite his passion for computers,he is quite a devoted collector. One of his collection are the 3 rare Porches he owns,one of them the Porsche 959 which he bought it 13 years before the US Environmental Agency approved it. He also owns a private plane which he has had it since 1997,and he refers to it as his "big splurge". His biggest pride though is the "Codex Leicester",a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci,which he purchased them in 1994 for a stunning $30.8 million.
It is to mention the fact that he does not posses a single foreign language. He says this is one of his biggest regrets of his life.
Bill Gates has been topping Forbe's billionaire list for quite some time now. He topped this list in 1995 for the first time. He became a billionaire when he was 31 years old. Gates is so rich that if he was a country,he would be the 37th richest country in the world. His net worth is approximately $75 billion. But the catch is that this enormous wealth is only for his lifetime,because he has decided that all of his fortune after he is dead will go to charity,and his children will only inherit $10 million each..
...and the Father of the Year Award goes to Mr.Gates.
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