William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen founded and built the world’s largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics. In the process, Gates became one of the richest men in the world.
Here are 20 Facts About One of the Richest Man- Bill Gates.
1. Most common things that everyone knows are that-:
- He’s the richest man in America (second-richest in the world right now).
- He co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft.
- He’s an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2. Bill Gates aimed to become a millionaire by the age of 30. However, he became a billionaire by 31.
Image Source:- thriveglobal3. The private school he attended as a child was one of the only schools in the US with a computer. The first program he ever used was a tic-tac-toe game.
Image Source:- cnbc4. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Gates was also known for his charitable work. With his wife, Melinda, he launched the William H. Gates Foundation (renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999) in 1994 to fund global health programs as well as projects in the Pacific Northwest. During the latter part of the 1990s, the couple also funded North American libraries through the Gates Library Foundation (renamed Gates Learning Foundation in 1999) and raised money for minority study grants through the Gates Millennium Scholars program.
Image Source:- dailymail5. Gates has held the #1 spot on Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires for 18 out of the past 23 years. From 1995 to 2017 he was at the top of the list, but has since been bumped to the number two spot by fellow tech giant and Washington state resident Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
6. Gates also read the entire “World Book Encyclopedia” series during his teenage years.
Image Source:- goodreads7. One of Gates’ biggest splurges, besides his plane, was the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci. He acquired the codex at a 1994 auction for $30.8 million.
Image Source:- thevintagenews8. Bill Gates was arrested in New Mexico in 1977 for jumping a red light and driving without a licence.
Image Source:- telegraph9. Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert launched a company while Gates and Allen were still students at Lakeside School in Seattle. Their Traf-O-Data 8008 computer was designed to read data from roadside traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers.
10. Gates’ schedule is planned down to the minute, but somehow he still finds time to read 50 books each year. That’s almost a book per week. The ceiling of his home library features an engraved quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Image Source:- fortune11. Gates says if Microsoft hadn’t worked out, he probably would’ve been a researcher for artificial intelligence. But, despite his deep interest in AI, Gates says he is “in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.” That camp also includes notable leaders in science in technology, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk.
Image Source:- techgig12. According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
13. No one was immune from the #IceBucketchallenge craze in 2014–not even Gates, who accepted the challenge from Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Source:- techcrunch14. Even in the ‘70s, San Francisco’s Silicon Valley and the “Silicon Prairie” of Dallas, Texas were hubs of the tech industry in America. Gates bucked the trend, and moved his company from Albuquerque, New Mexico back to his home state of Washington, in Bellevue, just outside Gates’ hometown of Seattle. In 1986, the software giant moved to Redmond, Washington, and today boasts an eight million square foot compound with 30,000 to 40,000 employees, plus additional offices in Seattle, Bellevue, and Issaquah.
15. When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
Image Source:- businessinsider16. Bill Gates doesn’t believe in leaving children a ton of money as inheritance; his three kids (daughters Jennifer and Phoebe and son Rory) are set to inherit just $10 million each of his multi-billion dollar fortune.
Image Source:- businessinsider17. Bill Gates no longer serves as Microsoft CEO—he stepped down in 2006 to focus on his charitable work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. However, he still serves as an advisor to Satya Nadella, the current CEO. As a “Personal Agent,” his role is to “remember everything and help you go back and find things and help you pick what things to pay attention to.”
18. Bill Gates once said that he always gives the laziest people the hardest jobs, because they’ll find the easiest way to do it.
Image Source:- cnbc19. The only thing left on Bill Gates’ bucket list is not to die.
Image Source:- time20. Bill Gates Sponsors a Machine That Turns Poop Into Drinking Water.
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