William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is a business, investor, writer, philanthropic, humanitarian, and founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the position of chairman, chief executive officer, and chief software architect, while also becoming the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.
In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the largest PC software company in the world. Gates led the company as chief executive officer until he resigned in January 2000, but he remained chairman and created the position of the software designer architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would transition from full-time work at Microsoft to a part-time worker and work full-time at Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000. He gradually shifted his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. He resigned as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and accepted a new position as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO, Satya Nadella.
Gates is one of the most famous entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which are considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by many court decisions.
Since 1987, Gates has been included in Forbes' list of the richest people in the world, an index of the richest documented people, excluding and ranking against people with a wealth that can not be ascertained completely. From 1995 to 2017, he holds the title of Forbes of the world's richest man, all except four years, and holds it consistently from March 2014 -July 2017, with an estimated net worth of US $ 89.9 Ã , Billion per October 2017. However, on July 27, 2017, and since 27 October 2017, it has been surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who is estimated to have a net worth of US $ 90.6 billion at the time. On May 5, 2018, Gates has a net worth of $ 91.5 billion, making him the second richest man in the world, behind Bezos.
Later in his career and since leaving Microsoft, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors. He donated large sums of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, where they and other billionaires promised to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and work with Rotary International to eliminate polio.
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Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the son of William H. Gates Sr. (born 1925) and Mary Maxwell Gates (1929-1994). His ancestors included English, German, Irish, and Scottish-Irish. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's grandfather was J.W, Maxwell, a president of a national bank. Gates has one older sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and a younger sister, Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family, but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father has the suffix "II". Early in his life, Gates observed that his parents wanted him to pursue a legal career. When Gates was young, his family regularly attended the Christian Church of the Congregation, the Protestant Reformation denomination. Families encourage competition; one visitor reported that "it does not matter whether it's a heart or a pickleball or a swim to the dock... there's always a reward for winning and there's always punishment for losing".
At the age of 13, he enrolled at Lakeside School, a private preparatory school. When Gates was in the eighth grade, the Mother's Club at school used the proceeds from the sale of Lakeside School junk school to buy the Model 33 ASR Teletype terminal and computer time blocks on General Electric (GE) computers for school students. Gates was interested in programming the GE system at BASIC, and was released from the math class to pursue his interests. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: a tic-tac-toe implementation that allows users to play games against computers. Gates is fascinated by the machine and how it will always execute software code perfectly. As he pondered back the moment, he said, "There's something neat about the machine." After Mothers Club's donations run out, he and other students are looking for time for systems including DEC PDP mini computer. One of these systems is the PDP-10 of Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which bans four Lakeside - Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland and Kent Evans students - for the summer after catching them exploiting bugs in the operating system to get free computer time.
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in the CCC software in exchange for additional computer time. Rather than using the system via Teletype. Next, Gates went to the CCC office and studied the source code for various programs running on the system, including programs in Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. Arrangements with the CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Science, Inc. employs four Lakeside students to write payroll programs at COBOL, giving them computer time and royalties. After his administrator became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote a school computer program to schedule students in class. He modified the code so that he was placed in class with "some interesting girls." He then stated that "it's hard to get away from a machine where I can clearly show success." At the age of 17, Gates formed a business with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to create traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In 1972, Bill Gates served as a congressional page on the US House of Representatives.
Gates was a National Good Scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) and enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. He chose pre-law majors but took math and computer science courses postgraduate. While at Harvard, he meets fellow student Steve Ballmer. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer will stay and graduate magna cum laude . Years later, Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO of Microsoft. He retained that position from 2000 until his resignation from the company in 2014.
In the second year, Gates devised an algorithm for sorting pancakes as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems presented in a combination class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates Solutions holds the record for being the fastest version for over thirty years; the successor is faster with only one percent. The solution was then formalized in a paper published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist, Christos Papadimitriou.
Gates did not have a definite study plan when he was a student at Harvard, and he spent a lot of time using school computers. Gates kept in touch with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. MITS Altair 8800 was released the following year. The new computer is based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen see this as an opportunity to start their own computer software company. Gates came out of Harvard at this time. He has discussed this decision with his parents, who supported him after seeing how their child wants to start his own company. Gates explained his decision to leave Harvard, saying "... if things [Microsoft] do not work, I can always go back to school." I officially [leave] [absence]. "
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After Gates read the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics, which demonstrated the Altair 8800, he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creator of a new microcomputer, to let them know that he and others worked on BASIC translators for platform. In fact, Gates and Allen do not have Altair and do not write code for it; they just want to measure the interest of MITS. MITS President Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for the demo, and for a few weeks they developed the Altair emulator running on a mini computer, and then the BASIC translator. The demonstration, held at the MITS office in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in an agreement with MITS to distribute interpreters as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired at MITS, and Gates took a leave from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on 26 November 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the New Mexico State Secretary. Gates never returned to Harvard to finish his studies.
Microsoft Altair BASIC was very popular among computer enthusiasts, but Gates found that pre-market copies leaked into the community and were widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter where he asserted that more than 90 percent of Microsoft Altair BASIC users have not paid Microsoft for it and by doing that Altair's "hobby market" is in danger. eliminating incentives for any professional developer to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software. The letter is unpopular with many computer enthusiasts, but Gates insists in his belief that software developers should be able to request payment. Microsoft became independent from MITS in late 1976, and continued to develop programming language software for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had extensive responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversees business details, but continues to write code as well. In the first five years, according to Bill Gates's own claim, he personally reviews each line of code the company sends, and often rewrites parts of it as he wants.
IBM Partnership
IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980 in connection with the operating system for the upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. IBM first proposed that Microsoft write a BASIC translator. When IBM representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), maker of the widely used CP/M operating system. IBM's discussion with Digital Research went badly, and they did not reach a license agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the difficulties of licensing during his next meeting with Gates and told him to get an acceptable operating system. A few weeks later, Gates proposed using 86-DOS (QDOS), a CP/M similar operating system created by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for PC-like hardware. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the exclusive licensing agent, and then the full owner, of 86-DOS. After adapting the operating system for PC, Microsoft sent it to IBM as a DOS PC in exchange for a one-time fee of $ 50,000.
Gates did not offer to transfer copyright on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone the IBM system. They did, and MS-DOS sales made Microsoft a key player in the industry. Regardless of the IBM name on the operating system, the press quickly identified Microsoft as very influential on the new computer. PC Magazine asks if Gates is "the man behind the machine?", and InfoWorld quotes an expert who states "it's Gates's computer". Gates oversaw Microsoft's corporate restructuring on June 25, 1981, which reinstated the company in Washington state and made Gates president of Microsoft and its board chairman.
Windows
Microsoft launched the first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985. In August of the following year, the company made a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies managed to develop the first version of the new system, the partnership got worse because of the difference creative peaking.
Management style
From the founding of Microsoft in 1975 to 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He earned a reputation for being away from others; in early 1981, an industry executive complained publicly that "Famous Gates can not be reached by phone and for not returning phone calls." Other executives remember that he showed Gates the game and beat him 35 out of 37 times. When they meet again a month later, Gates "wins or ties every game he has learned the game until he finishes it.
Gates is an executive who meets regularly with senior managers and Microsoft program managers. In the first accounts of these meetings, managers describe him verbally aggressively. He also berates managers for seeing holes in their business strategies or proposals that put the company's long-term interests at risk. He interrupts the presentation with comments like "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" and "Why do not you just give up and join the Peace Corps?" The target of his explosion must then defend the proposal in detail until, hopefully, Gates is fully convinced. When his subordinates looked delayed, he was known for sarcastic commenting, "I'll do it over the weekend."
During Microsoft's early history, Gates was an active software developer, primarily in enterprise programming language products, but his basic role in most of the company's history was primarily as manager and executive. Gates has not been officially on the development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100, but until 1989 he wrote the code that shipped with the company's products. He remains interested in technical details; in 1985, Jerry Pournelle wrote that when he watched Gates announce Microsoft Excel, "Something else impressed me." Bill Gates liked the program, not because it would make him earn a lot of money (although I'm sure it would do that), but because this is a neat hack. "
On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that over the next two years he would transition out of his daily role to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He divides his responsibilities between two successors when he puts Ray Ozzie in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.
Antitrust litigation
Many of the decisions that led to antitrust litigation of Microsoft business practices have been approved by Gates. In the case of 1998 United States v. Microsoft , Gates testifies to the deposition that some journalists are characterized as avoiding. He argued with the examiner David Boies about the contextual meaning of words such as, "compete", "concerned", and "us". Judges and other observers in the courtroom were seen laughing at various points during the denial process. BusinessWeek reported:
The initial round of his deposition shows he offers an unclear answer and says 'I do not remember,' many times even the presiding judge laughed. To make matters worse, many technological ignorance and appeals are directly denied by prosecutors with e-mails sent and received by Gates.
Gates later said he simply rejected an attempt by Boies to misinterpret his words and actions. Regarding his attitude during deposition, he said, "Am I holding on to Boies?... I plead guilty Whatever the punishment should be imposed on me: rudeness against Boies at the first level." Despite Gates's refusal, the judge ruled that Microsoft had monopolized and binding, and blocked competition, both violating the Sherman Anti-Semitic Act.
Appearance in ads
In 2008, Gates appeared in a series of ads to promote Microsoft. The first commercial ad, starring Jerry Seinfeld, was a 90-second conversation between strangers when Seinfeld walked in a discount shoe store (Shoe Circus) in a mall and saw Gates buy shoes inside. The seller is trying to sell Mr. shoes. Gates that are too big. When Gates bought shoes, he held his discount card, which uses a slightly altered version of his own record of his arrest in New Mexico in 1977, for a traffic violation. As they walk out of the mall, Seinfeld asks Gates if he has put his mind to another developer, after getting "Yes", he then asks if they are working by making the computer edible, again getting "Yes". Some say that this is a tribute to Seinfeld's own show about "nothing" ( Seinfeld ). In the second ad in the series, Gates and Seinfeld are at home from an average family that tries to adjust to normal people.
Post-Microsoft
Since leaving everyday operations at Microsoft, Gates continues to do his philanthropy and work on other projects.
According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gates is the world's highest-earning billionaire in 2013, as its net worth increased by US $ 15.8 billion to US $ 78.5 billion. In January 2014, most of Gates's assets were held at Cascade Investment LLC, an entity in which he owns shares in many businesses, including Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and Corbis Corp. On February 4, 2014, Gates resigned as chairman of Microsoft to become Technology Advisor with new CEO Satya Nadella.
Gates gave his views on issues in substantial interviews published in the March 27, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In the interview, Gates provides his views on climate change, charitable activities, technology companies and the people involved in it, and the American state. Responding to the question of his greatest fear when he's seen the next 50 years, Gates states: "... there will be some bad things that will happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them are on a scale, say, a million people that you do not expect to die of pandemic, or nuclear or bioterrorism. "Gates also identified innovation as" a real driver of progress "and said that" the American way of today is better than ever. "
Gates recently expressed his concern about the existential threat of superintelligence; in Reddit "ask me anything" he stated it
First the machine will do a lot of work for us and not be super smart. It must be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others about this and do not understand why some people do not care.
In a March 2015 interview, with CEO Baidu, Robin Li, Gates claimed he would "highly recommend" Nick Bostrom's latest work, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
In March 2018, Gates met at his home in Seattle with Mohammed bin Salman, the reformist crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia to discuss investment opportunities for Saudi Vision 2030.
Philanthropy
In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, where they and other billionaires promised to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and contributed some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create "William H. Gates Foundation." In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and Gates donated $ 5 billion worth of stock to make Bill & amps. The Melinda Gates Foundation, identified by the Fund for an NGO company in 2013, as the world's richest charitable foundation, with assets reported to be worth more than $ 34.6 billion. The Foundation allows donors to access information that shows how their money is spent, unlike other large charitable organizations like the Wellcome Trust.
Gates has acknowledged the generosity and broad philanthropy of David Rockefeller as a major influence. Gates and his father met with Rockefeller a few times, and their charity work was partly modeled on the Rockefeller family's philanthropic focus, where they were interested in tackling global problems that were ignored by governments and other organizations. In 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the second most generous philanthropists in America, having provided more than $ 28 billion for charity; the couple plans to donate 95 percent of their wealth to charity.
The Foundation is organized into four program areas: Global Development Division, Global Health Division, United States Division, and Global Policy & amp; Advocacy Division. The foundation supports the use of genetically modified organisms in agricultural development. In particular, the foundation supports the International Rice Research Institute in developing Golden Rice, a genetically modified rice variant used to combat vitamin A deficiency.
Private donations
Melinda Gates suggests that one should imitate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, who have sold their house and given half of its value, as described in the Half Power . Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to talk about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a commitment they called "Giving Pledge." Pledge is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth during the time for charity.
Gates also made personal donations to educational institutions. In 1999, Gates donated $ 20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the construction of a computer lab called "William H. Gates Building" designed by architect Frank Gehry. Although Microsoft has previously provided financial support to the institution, this is the first personal donation received from Gates.
Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named after the mother of both Gates and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer, both of whom are students (Ballmer was a member of the School's graduation class in 1977). , while Gates left his studies for Microsoft), and donated funds for the construction of the laboratory. Gates also donated $ 6 million for the construction of the Gates Computer Science Building, completed in January 1996, at the Stanford University campus. The building contains the Department of Computer Science (CSD) and Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) from the Stanford Engineering department.
On August 15, 2014, Bill Gates posted a video of himself on Facebook where he was seen throwing a bucket of iced water on his head. Gates posted the video after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg challenged him to do so to raise awareness of the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) disease.
Since around 2005, Bill Gates and his foundation have taken an interest in solving global sanitation problems. For example, they announced "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", which has received much media attention. To raise awareness of possible sanitation topics and possible solutions, Gates drank "human-generated" water by 2014 - in fact it is produced from a waste treatment process called Omni-processor. In early 2015, he also appeared with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show and challenged him to see if he could feel the difference between this reclaimed water or bottled water.
In November 2017, Gates said he would give $ 50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital seeking treatment for Alzheimer's disease. He also promised an additional $ 50 million to start a business working in Alzheimer's research.
Bill and Melinda Gates say they intend to leave their three children $ 10 million each as their inheritance. With only $ 30 million saved in the family, they seem to be on track to deliver about 99.96 percent of their wealth.
Criticism
In 2007, the Los Angeles Times criticized the foundation for investing its assets in companies that have been accused of exacerbating poverty, causing major pollution, and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell to developing countries. In response to press criticism, the foundation announced a review of its investment to assess social responsibility. This then cancels the review and stands with the investment policy for maximum return, while using the voting rights to influence the company's practices. The Gates Millennium Scholars program has been criticized by Ernest W. Lefever for not involving Caucasian students. This scholarship program is managed by the United Negro College Fund. In 2014, Bill Gates sparked a protest in Vancouver when he decided to donate $ 50 million to UNAIDS through Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation for mass circumcision purposes in Zambia and Swaziland.
Sports charity event
On April 29, 2017, Bill Gates partnered with Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer in a match at Match for Africa 4, a sold-out noncompetitive tennis match at Key Arena in Seattle. The event supports the charity efforts of Roger Federer Foundation in Africa. Federer and Gates played against John Isner, the top-ranked American player for most of this decade, and Mike McCready, the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam. Gates and Federer won the game 6-4. Overall, they collect $ 2 million for children in Africa. The following year, Gates and Federer return to play in the Match for Africa 5 on 5 March 2018 at San Jose SAP Center. Their opponents are Jack Sock, one of America's top players and a double grand slam winner, and Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor for the NBC Today show. Gates and Federer recorded their second game win along with a 6-3 score and the event garnered more than $ 2.5 million.
Recognition
In 1987, Gates was listed as a billionaire in Forbes magazine's 400 Richest People in America. He is worth $ 1.25 billion and is the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Since 1987, Gates has been on The Forbes 'list of The World's Billionaires and is the richest from 1995 to 1996, 1998 to 2007, 2009, and already since 2014. Gates is number one in Forbes' 400 lists of the Richest People from 1993 to 2007, 2009, and 2014 through 2017.
Time magazine named Gates was one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Time collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and lead singer U2 Bono as People of the Year 2005 for their humanitarian efforts. In 2006, he was voted the eighth in the list of "Heroes of our day". Gates enrolled in the list of powers of the Sunday Times in 1999, named CEO this year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked number one in "Top 50 Cyber" €
According to Forbes, Gates ranks fourth as the strongest man in the world in 2012, up from fifth in 2011.
In 1994, he was honored as a twenty Distinguished Fellow from the British Computer Society. In 1999, Gates received the Presidential Medal from the New York Institute of Technology. Gates received an honorary doctorate from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands, in 2000; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2002; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2005; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in April 2007; Harvard University in June 2007; The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, in 2007, and the University of Cambridge in June 2009. He also became the honorary guardian of Peking University in 2007.
Gates was appointed Honorary Honorary Commander of the Royal Order of the United Kingdom (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. In November 2006, he was awarded the Flagmark of Elang Aztec, along with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Badge in the same order, both for their philanthropic work at worldwide in the field of health and education, especially in Mexico, and especially in the Spanish "spy lang =" es "title =" subtitle "> Un paÃÆ's de lectores . Gates received the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute for his achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work. Also in 2010, he was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award by Boy Scouts of America, the highest award for adults, for his services to the young.
Entomologists call the flies of Bill Gates, Eristalis gatesi , to honor it in 1997.
In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for the Greatest Unprofitable Profitable Public Service.
In 2006, Gates received the James K. Global Humanitarian Award from The Tech Awards.
In 2015, Gates, along with his wife Melinda, received Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award for their social work in the country.
In 2016, President Barack Obama honors Gates and his wife Melinda with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their philanthropic endeavors.
In 2017, President FranÃÆ'§ois Hollande rewards Bill and Melinda with France's highest national honor - Honorary Legion in Paris for their charitable endeavor.
Personal life
Gates married Melinda French on a golf course on the island of Lanai in Hawaii on January 1, 1994; she is 38 and 29 years old. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (born 1996), Rory John (b) 1999, and Phoebe Adele (b 2002). Gates' oldest daughter, Jennifer, is a horseman competing on the 201ines Championside World Tour of Longines. The family lives in a modern design house, which is a sheltered house on earth on a hillside overlooking Lake Washington in Medina near Seattle in the state of Washington, USA. According to King County 2007 public records, the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $ 125 million, and the annual property tax is $ 991,000. The 66,000 sqÃ, ft (6,100 m 2 ) estate has a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with underwater music system, as well as 2,500Ã, sqÃ, ft (230 m 2 ) gym and dining room area of ​​1,000 m² (93 mm) 2 ).
In an interview with Rolling Stone , Gates states in connection with his faith:
The religious moral system, in my opinion, is very important. We have raised our children in a religious way; they went to the Catholic church that Melinda passed and I joined. I am very lucky, and therefore I owe to try and reduce the injustice in the world. And that's some kind of religious belief. I mean, that's at least a moral belief.
In the same interview, Gates said:
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that humans feel the need to create myths. Before we really started to understand the disease and the weather and things like that, we searched for the wrong explanation for them. Now science has filled up some domains - not all - religions used to fill. But the mystery and beauty of the world is amazing, and there is no scientific explanation as to how it happened. To say that it is generated by random numbers, which seems, you know, some kind of unusual view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but what decision in your life you make is different because of that, I do not know.
Gates bought Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for $ 30.8 million at an auction in 1994. Gates is an avid reader, and his large library of house ceilings is engraved with quotes from The Great Gatsby . He also enjoys playing bridge, tennis, and golf.
In 1999, his fortune briefly exceeded $ 101 billion. Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates usually flew a coach in a commercial airliner until 1997, when he purchased a private jet. Since 2000, the nominal value of Microsoft's ownership has declined because of Microsoft's stock price drop after the dot-com bubble burst and the multibillion-dollar donations he made to the charitable foundation. In a May 2006 interview, Gates commented that he hoped he was not the richest man in the world because he did not like the attention he was carrying. In March 2010, Gates was the second richest man behind Carlos Slim, but returned to top spot in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires List. Carlos Slim took over again in June 2014 (but later lost top spot back to Gates). Between 2009 and 2014, his fortune doubled from US $ 40 billion to over US $ 82 billion. Since October 2017, Gates was defeated by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world.
Bill Gates has topped the list of The World Millionaires for 18 of the last 23 years.
Gates has several investments outside Microsoft, which in 2006 gave him a salary of $ 616,667 and a $ 350,000 bonus for a total of $ 966,667. In 1989, he founded Corbis, a digital imaging company. In 2004, he became director of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment company headed by old friend Warren Buffett. In 2016, he discusses the habit of playing games when he reveals that he is color blind.
In an interview with the BBC, Gates claimed, "I have paid more taxes than anyone else, and gladly... I have paid more than $ 6 billion in taxes." He is a higher tax supporter, especially for the rich. Gates's days were planned for him, similar to the US President's schedule, minute by minute.
Business and external business investment
- Cascade Investments LLC, a private investment and holding company established in the United States, is controlled by Bill Gates and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
- bgC3, a new think-tank company founded by Gates.
- Corbis, the company licensing service and digital image rights.
- TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company.
- Eclipse Aviation, a very lightweight jet manufacturer. Gates is a major shareholder at the start of the project.
- ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists. Gates participated in a $ 35 million financing round along with other investors.
Books
Gates has written two books: The Road Ahead, written with Microsoft executives Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson, was published in November 1995. It summarizes the implications of the personal computing revolution and illustrates a very changing future by the arrival of global information superhighway.
Documentary
- Machine Changing the World (miniseries) (1990)
- Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
- Nerds 2.0.1 (1998)
- Waiting for "Superman" (2010)
- Virtual Revolution (2010)
Featured movie
- 1999: Silicon Valley Pirates , a film that reveals the rise of Apple and Microsoft from the early 1970s to 1997. Gates is described by Anthony Michael Hall.
- 2002: Nothing Strange , a mocumentary featuring Gates as the subject of modern murder. In short, Gates appeared at the beginning, played by Steve Sires.
- 2010: Social Networking, a movie that tells the development of Facebook. Gates is described by Steve Sires.
- 2015: Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates: Competition for Controlling Personal Computers, 1974-1999 : Original film from National Geographic Channel for the series American Genius .
Social media
In 2013, Gates became LinkedIn Influencer.
Movie and movie clip
- 1983: Steve Jobs hosts Bill Gates in a Macintosh dating event at a pre-launch Macintosh (with Steve Jobs and Mitch Kapor, television show references, The Dating Game )
- 2007: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together at D5 Conference
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