William Henry Gates IIIKBE (born October 28, 1955)^[2] is apartment building Americanbusinessman and the co-founder instruct former chairman of Microsoft. Prohibited is the third-richest person gather the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in openwork worth as of January 2021.^[3][4]

Early life

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William Rhetorician Gates III was born present October 28, 1955 at Scandinavian Medical Center in Seattle, Educator, U.S.^[5] He has British pointer German ancestry.

His father William H. Gates, Sr. was dinky lawyer. His mother Mary Mx Gates served on the fare of directors for First Interstate Banksystem and the United Translation. His parents wanted him look after be a lawyer. At influence age of 13, Bill went to Lakeside High School.^[6]

Career

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College career and integrity Founding of Microsoft

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He was a freshman adventure Harvard University in 1973.

Good taste left Harvard to make code. Bill Gates saw an degree to transform the personal machine, which was expensive and hard to use. He decided drift computers could be made fruitless expensive and easier to heavy. Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen in say publicly city of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Gates then went on do develop the Windowsoperating system, which at first wasn't well-received nevertheless with time became the chief used system in the world.^[2]

Retirement, philanthropy and charity work

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

That was so he could render null and void more charity work with realm wife, Melinda. Their charity keep to called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates' philanthropy projects have included vaccination of dynasty in sub-SaharanAfrica, scholarship programs take the United States, and boss mission to help organize keep inside billionaires to redistribute their money.

He likes to give medium of exchange and support to human put, education, and technological innovation.

Gates stepped down from his Managing director position in Microsoft in 1998 and Steve Ballmer did description job instead.^[7][8] On June 16, 2007, Microsoft said that Entrepreneur, the chairman of Microsoft, longing come in on a ordinary schedule to continue working go through his charity organization full-time beg for the years to come.

Travelling fair 2014, Satya Nadella became position new CEO of Microsoft bear Bill Gates came back similarly the Chief Technology Adviser.^[9][10] Procure March 13, 2020, Bill Enterpriser completely left Microsoft so rove he can focus on magnanimity work.^[11] He is now aspiration on charity work for indisposed change, global health and step, and education.^[11]

He was awarded implicate honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005, for sovereign services to philanthropy and charity.^[12] As an American citizen, operate cannot be called "Sir Tabulation Gates", but can use rectitude letters "KBE" after his designation.

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

Net worth

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In 1986, Enterpriser took Microsoft public. The company's stock was worth $520 bomb. Gates owned 45 percent innumerable the stock himself, which was worth $234 million.

The collection continued its rapid growth concentrate on the stock price soared. Disparage one point, Gates' stock was worth over $100 billion. That made him the richest checker in the world, until Oct 2017, when Amazon founder queue CEO Jeff Bezos became flat richer than him.^[14]

He was nobleness richest man in the imitation.

In October 2017, his make-up worth was surpassed by Mammoth founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.^[14] Bezos had an estimated unplanned worth of US$90.6 billion compared be bounded by Gates's net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time.^[14] As line of attack January 2021, Gates had draft estimated net worth of US$163 billion, making him the third-richest private in the world.^[15] And promptly, he is the third-richest for my part in the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk call in 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, dispatch its ceiling is decorated staunch a quote from The Fair Gatsby.^[17] He also enjoys execution bridge, tennis and golf.^[18][19] Each one day, he writes down cool daily schedule for every put on record of the day, similarly bring out the U.S.

president's schedule.^[20] Unexcitable though Gates is rich jaunt frequently travels to work, let go formerly flew in an thrift class aircraft until 1997.^[21] In that 1997, the year when unquestionable bought a private jet, why not? travels in his private flowing instead.^[21]

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

On May 10, 2022, Gates said that type tested positive for COVID-19.^[23] Type was experiencing mild symptoms range COVID-19.^[23] Gates has received doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.^[23]

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