Bill Gates is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation and he is one of the richest person in the world. He has played major role in developing varieties of software that has been dominating in the world all these years.
He is the person who promotes the welfare for others through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He was enrolled at Harvard University in 1973 in the intention of pursuing his studies in Law. But the Bill Gates dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue business with his child hood friend and partner Paul Allen. In 1975 they have formed a company called Microsoft and started developing software for the newly emerging personal computer market.
With their hard work, determination and dedication, within few years Microsoft Corporation has completely dominated in the Personal Computer operating system’s market. Subsequently Microsoft has become the dominant player in computer software industry.
Their main intention was to have a computer in every home that was unimaginable for the common people at that time. Those days only bigger companies were able to purchase the computers and managing the same.
Till Microsoft’s entry into computer operating system and software development, IBM was the world’s largest computer maker for its first microcomputer, IBM PC. Bill Gates and Paul Allen licensed an operating system called MS-DOS to IBM in 1980. Within few decades, Bill Gates lead Microsoft had indeed brought computer power to the people as they desired earlier.
In 1985, Bill Gates has launched first Windows operating system as well as windows. Thereafter Microsoft has launched Microsoft Office in 1989, that was a package of office applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel into one system.
In 1995, they have launched Windows 95 and in 2001 Microsoft debuted the original Xbox gaming system. Since then Microsoft appeared untouchable.
Bill Gates is an entrepreneur, famous Investor and a man of good character. He was the main instrumental in taking Microsoft Corporation as a best Tech company in the world.
Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 2000, and was succeeded by his friend and longtime Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates assumed the new role of chief software architect. In 2008, he has stopped in working his daily job at Microsoft. At the same time, he was still retaining his position as a Board Chairman until 2014.
He was born on 28 October 1955 and he has three children. Apart from the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, he is a founder and chairman of Bill and Melinda gates foundation. His wife name is Melinda.
Bill Gates was highly practical, good and down to earth. He boosts confidence and motivate his employees to work hard and to achieve the goals.
Even though, Bill Gates has an estimated net worth of 102 Billion dollars, but he did not reserve all these money for himself and his family.
He has paid billions of dollars to charity through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to help poverty ridden people living in developing countries without drawing any attention/publicity to himself.
Earlier he has categorically said that he was not going to keep all his fortune for his three children Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. He has said further that his each child would inherit only 10 Million Dollars because he doesn’t want his children to be lazy in future.
His family lives in a 66,000-square-feet mansion overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington that was one of the most expensive houses in the world. At that time it was costing around 50 million dollars.
Ever since he stepped out from from the post of CEO as well as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, he spends most of his time with his Bill Gates foundation. At the same time he was still holding various post in Microsoft Corporation. Later he has relinquished almost all the posts one after another.
He has utilized his donated money to save millions of people from the brink of hunger and malnutrition, eradicating malaria, enhance healthcare, reduce extreme poverty, expanding educational opportunities and to access to information technology. His Foundation was funding tuition for 20,000 college students to installing 47,000 computers in 11,000 libraries in all 50 states across the world.
In 2016, the former U.S. President Barak Obama has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their Foundation’s charitable work to both the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates.
Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is now vehemently working for developing an adequate vaccine to containing the ongoing Covid 19 Pandemic which has been shaking the entire world.
Bill Gates to fund huge amount for the faster development of seven different coronavirus (Covid 19) vaccines to containing the Covid 19 Pandemic as fast as possible.
His Foundation has pledged 150 million dollars towards manufacturing 100 million doses of possible COVID-19 vaccines specifically for low- and middle-income countries.
