Who is Bill Gates: co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world
- William "Bill" Henry Gates III was born on 28. October 1955, born in Seattle.
- In 1975, he interrupted his studies and founded together with Paul Allen, the Microsoft company, which is considered as the biggest software manufacturer in the world.
- A few years after the founding of the company, succeeded Gates, to sell the operating system MS-DOS to IBM. This was his first big commercial success.
- In 2008, Gates has worked the last full day at Microsoft. In 2007, he signed to his company. Shortly before that, he was head of the development Department. Today, he is Chairman of the Board (a Chairman of the Supervisory Board) and advises Microsoft in terms of ideas and visions.
- Bill Gates current fortune is estimated at 72.7 billion dollars. It is thus one of the richest people in the world. In addition, he owns about 500 million shares of Microsoft.
- Together with his wife, Melinda Gates, he called a private Foundation for the global development, health, and education, to which he donated 28 billion dollars.
Bill Gates: founder of Microsoft
The direct competitor of Bill Gates was once Steve Jobs. What's up with this name, we can tell you that in another article.
