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Bill Gates is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates net worth is estimated to be 56 Billion dollars making him one of the richest people in the world. Apart from being a successful businessman Bill Gates has been a great philanthropist and an author as well.
Bill Gates was born on 28th of October 1955 to Mary and William H. Gates II and spent his childhood in Seattle. His father was an attorney and mother, a school teacher. During the elementary schooling Bill Gates was attracted towards software and he first programmed a computer at the age of 13.
In the year 1973 Bill Gates joined Harvard University and left in 1975 to focus on Microsoft, the software firm he founded along with Paul Allen, his childhood friend. Since then Microsoft has grown manifold and today most of us use the softwares and computer processors developed by Microsoft.
The success of Microsoft meant Bill Gates net worth grew exponentially over a period of time. In the year 1986, Microsoft went public and Bill Gates net worth breached a Billion making him the youngest Billionaire on earth.
Bill Gates donated generously from his wealth and also created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The surge in Bill Gates net worth meant more donations through the foundation.
Bill Gates facts include the most amazing feat of holding the “World’s richest person” title for an astonishing period from 1995 to 2009 barring the year 2008 when Warren Buffet was titled the “World’s richest person”.
In the year 1999 Bill Gates net worth even breached the 100 Billion dollars mark briefly prompting media to call him a "centiBillionaire". The above are just a few of the Bill Gates facts which have made waves during the past two decades and there are many more Bill Gates facts which are equally astonishing.
There has always been a question mark over Bill Gates religion with some people calling him a Jew and some a catholic. He is also considered an atheist by a few. The popular guess about Bill Gates religion is that he follows Agnosticism. Bill Gates once said that he is not a great believer of some of the specific elements of Christianity and he is not someone who regularly goes to a church and doesn’t know God exists or not. Hence Bill Gates religion is assumed to be an Agnostic. |
