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Who is Bill Gates?

XpgonN0X_400x400.jpgBill Gates was born at the end of October 1955,his father was a Seattle business lawyer and his mother Mary Gates was a Washington University teacher and executive chairman of a few United Way of America companies and banks.

He started computer programming at age 13 while still at school.

He started his first business at the age of 20 with his friend Paul Allen who will be renamed to Microsoft while he was at the University.

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He became, thanks to the commercial success of Microsoft, the richest man in the world from 1996 to 2007, as well as in 2009, 2014 and 2015, 2016. When he becomes again the richest man in the world, according to the Bloomberg ranking, in January 2014, his fortune amounted to 78.5 billion US dollars.

In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked Bill Gates as the second richest man in the world with a fortune of 90.2 billion US dollars, dethroned by the founder of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos site who has a fortune estimated to 90.7 billion US dollars.

Now Bill Gates is dedicated himself to his foundation.

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