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Hometown: Seattle

Age: 67 Years

Marital Status: Divorced

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Some Lesser Known Facts About Bill Gates

  • Does Bill Gates smoke?: Not Known
  • Does Bill Gates drink alcohol?: Yes
  • Bill Gates was fanatical about Computers and Programming.
  • Gates admitted in Lakeside School, one of handful schools in the US with a computer terminal at the time.
  • Gates first computer program ever was a tic-tac-toe game.
  • Gates hacked his school program to schedule students in classes, changing the code so that he was placed in classes with “disproportionate number of interesting girls.”
  • Gates graduated from Lakeside School with a score of 1590 out of 1600, and then went to Harvard in 1973 where he met Steve Balmer.
  • In 1975, Gates dropped out of Harvard and joined his childhood friend Paul Allen to form a company which they named “Micro-Soft.” The hyphen fell off within a year.
  • In 1977 he was arrested in New Mexico for driving without a license.
  • Gates paid $30.1 million at an auction in 1994 for the Codex Leicester, a collection of writing by Leonardo Da Vinci.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Codex Leicester
  • His net worth briefly surpassed $101 billion 1999, causing the media to call “cent billionaire.”
  • A money machine in the most authentic sense of the word would show that Gates makes in average about $250 per second, $15,000 per minute, and almost $20 million every day.
  • From 1995 until 2007, Gates was the richest man on the Earth, before being dethroned momentarily by Mukesh Ambani.                                                                                                                                                                             Mukesh Ambani
  • If he was a country, Gates would be the 37th richest country on earth.
  • Xanadu 2.0, Gates family mansion, brags a 17-by-60-foot swimming pool with underground music system and a floor painted in a fossil motif.
  • In 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people.
  • In February 2014, he stepped down as chairman of Microsoft, taking on a new post as technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.                                                                                                                          Satya Nadella
  • Bill and Melinda Gates have said that they intend to leave their three children with $10 million each as their inheritance. With only $30 million kept in the family, they would spend all their wealth in charity about 99.96 percent of their wealth.
  • In July 2022, shared his 48-year-old resume, his first resume, addressing his followers that he was sure that their resume looks better than his. While sharing the resume on social media, he wrote,

    Whether you’re a recent grad or a college dropout, I’m sure your resume looks a lot better than mine did 48 years ago.”

    Bill Gates' first resume

    Bill Gates’ first resume

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