Facts about Bill Gates

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William Henry Gates III (October 28, 1955, Seattle), better known as Bill Gates, was an American businessman, one of the largest shareholders and founders of Microsoft (in partnership with Paul Allen). .

- The name of the company that Gates first founded was Traf-O-Data.

- The name of the company that brought him good luck was originally written in the form of Micro Soft (with a space).

- At the age of 13, Bill Gates and his friends managed to break into a school computer and gain access to classified information. This little hacker was not penalized, but was sent to work by the Seattle Computer Center to test his software.

- Bill’s parents went so far as to ban their son from accessing the computer in order to change his attitude towards the computer, a ban that was temporary. In these situations, he was reading books about historical figures.

- When he was in school, Gates started creating computer programs with his friend Paul Allen. At that time, he created a game called “RISK” based on Napoleon’s biography.

- The first program Bill created during school was to implement effective lesson planning.

"Bill gets his first big paycheck when he's 15 years old." At this age, he manages to create a program that manages street traffic. The service fee was $ 20.

- In 1968, the first computer was installed at a college called Lakeside, and Bill spent days and nights at that college, causing his grades to drop.

- Gates, Paul Allen, and friends at Lakeside College worked together to create unauthorized programs that disrupted computer performance.

- Studying at Harvard bored him and he spent most of his time programming or playing poker.

- Gates opened a sick leave in 1974 for failing to take classes at the university and was later expelled from Harvard University, however, Bill later managed to graduate from that university. Rather, the university administration presents him with a diploma.

- He used to tell Harvard University professors that Bill would become a millionaire at the age of 30, even though he managed to become a billionaire at the age of 31.

- In the late 1990s, about 90% of personal computers were working with Microsoft software.

- Gates, 38, sells about a million copies of Windows a month.

- In 1994, Bill Gates married a woman named Melinde French and rented one of the Hawaiian Islands for the wedding. She is survived by three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (April 3, 26), Rory John Gates (May 1996, 23) and Phoebe Adele Gates (September 1999, 14). .)) bor.

- Bill has spent a total of about 30 billion on charity.

- Every second our hero earns $ 250, which means $ 21,6 million a day and $ 7,8 billion a year.

- If Windows users were paid $ 1 for each freeze (error window) of the operating system, Gates would be devastated in 3 years.

- As the World Wide Web (www) was evolving, Bill said, "The Internet is an idea with no future." Nevertheless, he had asked his best programmers a few years later to serve for the development of this line.

- In 1997, Gates was the victim of a fraud committed by Adam Quinn Pletcher of Chicago. Gates testified in court and Pletcher was found guilty and in July 1998 he was sentenced to six years in prison.

- Until June 2008, Bill was the head of Microsoft, and after his resignation (he announced this in 2006) he remained the non-executive chairman of the company's board of directors. Bill is also chairman of the charity.

- Gates pays about $ 1 million in property taxes every year.

- Bill's great-grandfather was a lawyer and mayor, his grandfather was the president of the state bank Vista, and his father was a lawyer.

- There are so many books written about the bill that if you type the word gates as a keyword through amazon.com, you can find over 130 works.

"Most people don't know that Bill wrote a book called The Road to the Future." In this book, he expresses his attitude to the views of society during the development of information technology. In the 7 weeks since the book was published, it has not dropped from No. 1 on the list of the world’s best-selling (best-selling) works.