Ten Things You Might Not Know About

Bill Gates, Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft

1-The world may know him as Bill Gates but
his full name is William Henry Gates III.

2-Gates never completed his graduation from
college. Instead, he founded Microsoft with
his friend Paul Allen in 1975. He was just 20
years old when he founded Microsoft.

3-He is known to keep his word. In school he
bragged to his teachers that he would be a
millionaire by the time he was 30. He kept
his word, and in fact, was a billionaire by 31.

4-The first computer program that Gates
wrote was a tic-tac-toe game. The game
was played in a two player format where the
computer was the opponent.

5-Considered one of the wealthiest people
in the world, Bill Gates is believed to earn
nearly 250 US Dollars every second which is
about 20 million dollars a day and 7.2 billion
dollars a year. At that rate, he can pay off
the entire United States debt in less than 10
years.

6-His children often tease him by singing the
song ‘Billionaire’ by Bruno Mars and Travis
McCoy.

7-He has a Twitter account and is very active
on it. But is not very happy using Facebook
as the friend requests got out of hand.
However, Mark Zuckerberg and he are said
to get along well.

8-If Bill Gates was a country; he would be the
37th richest country on earth!

9-He enjoys playing tennis, golf and bridge in
his leisure time.

10-He is a history buff! In an interview, he
said that the first things he would save in a
fire are the documents he’s collected from
famous historical figures like Leonardo da
Vinci’s Codex Leicester notebook, which he
bought in 1994 for over $30 million.

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