Ten Things You Might Not Know About Bill Gates
Ten Things You Might Not Know About Bill Gates
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Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft1. The world may know him as Bill Gates but his full name is William Henry Gates III.
2. Gates never completed his graduation from college. Instead, he founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. He was just 20 years old when he founded Microsoft.
3. He is known to keep his word. In school he bragged to his teachers that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He kept his word, and in fact, was a billionaire by 31.
4. The first computer program that Gates wrote was a tic-tac-toe game. The game was played in a two player format where the computer was the opponent.
5. Considered one of the wealthiest people in the world, Bill Gates is believed to earn nearly 250 US Dollars every second which is about 20 million dollars a day and
7.2 billion dollars a year. At that rate, he can pay off the entire United States debt in less than 10 years.
6. His children often tease him by singing the song ‘Billionaire’ by Bruno Mars and Travis McCoy.
7. He has a Twitter account and is very active on it. But is not very happy using Facebook as the friend requests got out of hand. However, Mark Zuckerberg and he are said to get along well.
8. If Bill Gates was a country; he would be the 37th richest country on earth!
9. He enjoys playing tennis, golf and bridge in his leisure time.
10. He is a history buff! In an interview, he said that the first things he would save in a fire are the documents he’s collected from famous historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester notebook, which he bought in 1994 for over $30 million.
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