Bill Gates - Microsoft Founder & Billionaire

• With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.

• The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.

• Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft -- he owns just over 1% of shares --and invested in a mix of stocks and other assets.

• He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.

• In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.

• To date, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.

AGE : 63

SOURCE OF WEALTH : Microsoft, Self Made

LIFETIME GIVING : $35.8B

GIVING AS A PERCENTAGE OF NET WORTH : 27%

RESIDENCE : Medina, Washington

CITIZENSHIP : United States

MARITAL STATUS : Married

CHILDREN : 3

EDUCATION : Drop Out, Harvard University

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.

In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. Gates led the company as chief executive officer until stepping down in January 2000, but he remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was established in 2000.

Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people, an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all.

In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy.

Bill Gates owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot mansion is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0 in some news media articles. Bill Gates house has a value of more than US $ 127.5 million. 



How much does Bill Gates make in a day?

With a worth of $72 billion, a 6% rate of return would earn Gates roughly $114.16 per second he is alive, making it a poor investment for Bill Gates to bother picking up a $100 bill if he dropped it.

How much does Bill Gates make 2018?

According to media, from 2017 to 2018 he went from being worth $86 billion to being worth $90 billion. That means in 2017, Gates' net worth increased by $4 billion in one year alone. That averages out to approximately $10,959,000 a day, which is also about $456,625 per hour, $7,610 per minute, and $127 per second.

Who is wife of Bill Gates?

Melinda Ann Gates DBE is an American philanthropist. She is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta and Expedia.



How many Children Bill Gates have?

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. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (born 1996), Rory John (born 1999), and Phoebe Adele (born 2002).