Harvard College dropout, Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author, computer programmer and a philanthropist who has a net worth of $77.1 billion as of 2014.
The richest person in the world today is also a software giant who got popular co-founding the largest software company named Microsoft with his co-partner Paul Allen.
This premiere entrepreneur who started the personal computer revolution got enrolled to Harvard in the autumn session of 1973 after graduating from Lakeside school in 1973 and he is also one of the highest scorers in SAT during his times with a total of 1590 out of 1600.
With the establishment of Microsoft in April 4, 1975, Bill Gates became the CEO of his company but later stepped down in 2008 to work on his charitable trust along with his wife which is named on the couple: Bill and Melinda Gates foundation so as to work more on his philanthropist approach to life. This charity foundation is also the world’s largest transparently operated foundation in the world.
After being the world’s richest billionaire, Gates have been influential in donations to third world countries and have donated over $28 billion to encourage people of over 40 countries in abolishment of several epidemics and problems: mostly in the third world nations.
With his donations to tackle several third world problems like AIDS, polio, tuberculosis and hunger mostly, Gates and his wife have been working mostly in Africa to name their foundation as the world’s largest philanthropic institution.
Born on upper-middle-class family in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill Gates has also been an author of two books, namely ‘The Road ahead” and “Business @ the speed of thought.”
Bill Gates also runs several other companies with Cascade Investments LLC, bgC3, Corbis and TerraPower being the most popular in the world. Research Gate is also one of the best social networking websites for scientists where Gates has invested over $35 million until today.
Bill Gates Profile In a Glance
Full Name: William Henry ‘Bill’ Gates III
Profession: Programmer, Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Investor, Software Architect
Height: 5 ft. 10 in (1.78m)
Weight: 135lbs (61.37kg)
Ethnicity: Scottish American
Nationality: USA
Date of Birth: October 28, 1955
Place of Birth: Seattle
Education: Harvard University, Dropout
Marital Status: Married to Melinda Gates
Children: 3 (Jennifer Katharine, Phoebe Adele, Rory John)
