Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born in October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He is an American businessman, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executiveofficer (CEO) and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.
Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have two daughters, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996) and Phoebe Adele(2002), and one son, Rory John (1999). Gates's private acquisition is the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci, which Gates bought for $30.8 million at an auction in1994.Gates also enjoys playing tennis, and golf. (Oswaldo)
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, wholater succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft. Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. Gates remained in contact with PaulAllen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974 The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity tostart their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
In 1987, Gates wasofficially declared a billionaire in the pages of Forbes' 400 Richest People in America issue, just days before his birthday. As the world's youngest self-made billionaire, he was worth $1.25 billion,...