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Bill Gates 1
Bill Gates 1
Bill Gates
October 28 ,1955 William H. Gates, and Mary Maxwell Gates Seattle, Washington His father was an lawyer in Seattle. Bill was highly influenced by his mother who died in 1994. Bill has two sisters - Kristi and Libby.
CHILDHOOD
Interested in Maths & Science 11- Class clown Change in Behavior Psychiatrist
TURNING POINT1979
MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating system) First created Dos for IBM Bought Again from IBM for $75000 and named it MS-DOS Made Millions Established a great Platform for Microsoft Sold at prices cheaper than IBM
PERSONAL LIFE
Married Melinda French on Jan 1st 1994 Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002) One of the Richest house in world Posses Codex Leicester
WEALTH
Number one on the "Forbes 400" list from 1993 through to 2006 Number one on Forbes list of "The World's Richest People" from 1995-2006 with 50 billion US dollars 56 billion US dollars (2011)
PHILANTROPHY
2005, endowment of $29.0 billion. Since 2008, spend much of his lifetime income on charity Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation (2006)
Windows 2.0(1987)
Windows 7 (2009)