Bill Gates: biografi og filantropi

Bill gates is 63 years, and are the 2nd richest in the world. He lives in Washington, USA. With his wife Melinda Gates and theirs 3 children’s. Bill owns more than 5 houses in USA. In 1975, Bill and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world´s largest PC software company. In February 2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down as Microsoft´s chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates married Melinda French on a golf course on the Hawaiian island of Lanai on January 1, 1994. He was 38 and she was 29 years.

Bill and Melinda donated total 51% of theirs money, and bill earns $232 USD pr. Sec. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for “First Interstate banc System” and the “United Way.” Gates maternal grandfather was J.W. Maxwell, a “national bank” president. Gates has one older sister, Krisianne, and a younger sister, Libby.

From Microsoft´s founding in 1975 until 2006, Hates had primary responsibility for the company´s product strategy. He gained a reputation for being distant from other as early as 1981 an industry executive complained in public that “Gates in notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls.” Another executive recalled that he showed Gates a game and defeated him 35 of 37 times. When they met again a month later, Gates “won or tried every game. He had studied the game until he solved it. That is a competitor.”