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Bill Gates is a self made Billionaire, he is the #1 Billionaires (2016) on Forbes List and also #1 in United
States Billionaires. He is a wildly successful entrepreneur who helped spawn the personal computer revolution. A generous philanthropist who broke the billions barrier in personal giving Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He married Melinda French in 1994 and they have three children. Today, Bill and Melinda Gates co-chair the charitable foundation bearing their names and are working together to give their wealth back to society.Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning.
See below the Bill Gates Interview, who is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and widely known as one of the most richest and influential people in the world.
Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain great position in the profession he chose also Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enroll him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers.
Meanwhile, the personal computer -- and Microsoft software -- revolutionized the worlds of work and recreation. Microsoft became an enormous international corporation, and by 1995, its Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder, Bill Gates, was the world's richest man, a title he has retained almost every year since. Bill Gates changed the way the world operates,functions, Gates made life easier for humans to live in. To get tasks done within seconds at a time, creating several multitasking software programs. Bill Gates will forever be remembered as a business man, philanthropist, and investor. Bill Gates with multiple products unleashed with his company Microsoft, allowed the technology field to expand and become more competitive,always setting the stakes much higher, and presented a field with endless surprises.
Bill Gates has got recognition all around the world for his accomplishments. He received his doctorates from the following universities:
- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).
- Nyenrode Business Universiteit, (Breukelen, The Netherlands, 2000).
- Tsinghua University (Beijing, China, April 2007).
- Harvard University (Cambridge, USA, June 2007).
- Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden, 2007).
- Cambridge University (Cambridge, USA, June 2009)
Also while being a student, Gates got inspired of the philanthropic work of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. In 2000, Gates together with his wife Melinda founded Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support low-income countries.
In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Bill Gates an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and he could use the post-nominal letters KBE after his name. In November 2006, the Mexican government awarded Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates with the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic contributions in the world’s development, especially in the health and education spheres.
Time magazine named Bill Gates one the 100 persons who most influenced the world in the 20th century. Additionally, Time magazine named Gates, his wife Melinda and the U2s lead singer Bono as the Persons of the Year of 2005.
The Franklin Institute awarded Gates with 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership for his accomplishments at Microsoft Corporation and his philanthropic work.
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