[106] Although the foundation announced a review of its investments to assess social responsibility,[107] it was subsequently canceled and upheld its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices. [8] In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000. [173][174] Since 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings has declined due to a fall in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst and the multi-billion dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. [48], Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. [175] In March 2010, Gates was the second wealthiest person behind Carlos Slim, but regained the top position in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires List. And that's kind of a religious belief. One was Mission Innovation, in which 20 national governments pledged to double their spending on research and development for carbon-free energy over five years. În timpul carierei sale la Microsoft, a fost cel mai important deținător de acțiuni al companiei până în 2014. "An exclusive interview with Bill Gates. Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for US$30.8 million at an auction in 1994. 7. The company's stock was worth $520 million. [186], In 2016, he revealed that he is color-blind.[187]. [110] Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity. 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[90][91] In June 2019, Gates admitted that losing the mobile operating system race to Android was his biggest mistake. He has urged governments and the private sector to invest in research and development to make clean, reliable energy cheaper. There is no biography movie of Bill Gates but you will get so many documentaries about Bill Gates. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Early Life... (1955...) Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. [62] The press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the IBM PC. Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics. What would you do with 100 billion dollars? [11] In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic endeavors including climate change, global health and development, and education. [200], This article is about the co-founder of Microsoft. He has given sizable amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest private charity. We can't forget that another pandemic will come and we'll need to invest in being ready in that, ......while not forgetting that we were not prepared and we're going to have to invest - just like having a fire department - some money in an intelligent way and actually simulate what might happen and make sure that we're ready for it. Bill Gates Quotes “The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.” Personal Life. [12], Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. [53], Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. [11][82], Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in a substantial interview that was published in the March 27, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The building contains the Computer Science Department and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) of Stanford's Engineering department. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970 when the company went out of business. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. [68][69] He interrupted presentations with such comments as "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard"[70] and "why don't you just give up your options and join the Peace Corps? Gates has expressed concern about the potential harms of superintelligence; in a Reddit "ask me anything", he stated that: First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. The Money Programme’s Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found. [93], On March 13, 2020, Microsoft announced Gates would be leaving his board positions at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate his efforts in philanthropic endeavors such as climate change, global health and development, and education. Gates envisions that a breakthrough innovation in sustainable energy technology could drive down both greenhouse gas emissions and poverty, and bring economic benefits by stabilizing energy prices. From film school reject to Hollywood legend, take a look at Steven Spielberg's career so far and explore what lies ahead. A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates Gates… He was the second child and first boy born to his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates (a teacher), and to his father, William H. Gates Sr (a then senior lawyer). It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM's adoption of their operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft's transformation from a small business to the leading software company in the world. [127] Another initiative was Breakthrough Energy, a group of investors who agreed to fund high-risk startups in clean energy technologies. [79], Gates later said that he had simply resisted attempts by Boies to mischaracterize his words and actions. He also berated them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk. [24], At 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. Bill scored 800 points in the mathematical part of the intelligent test and it is not accidental he has a talent and showing the best result. [23][24] The family lived in the Sand Point area of Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare tornado when Gates was seven years old. Bill Gates as a child was very competitive, curious, and depth thinker. He divided his responsibilities between two successors when he placed Ray Ozzie in charge of management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.[77]. In 1999, his wealth briefly surpassed US$101 billion. Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail that Gates both sent and received. ", Gates, Bill. "[182] He is a proponent of higher taxes, particularly for the rich. … He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gates was the world's highest-earning billionaire in 2013, as his net worth increased by US$15.8 billion to US$78.5 billion. William Henry “Bill” Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington in a fairly wealthy family of William Henry “Bill” Gates, Sr. – a successful attorney and Mary Maxwell Gates – a former school teacher, who later became a member of the Board of Directors of the First Interstate Bank.Being a child, Bill Gates already possessed a prospective businessman talent, especially in mathematics. Ask me anything. [120], In November 2017, Gates said he would give $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital that seeks treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Gates had not offered to transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM because he believed that other personal computer makers would clone IBM's PC hardware. He was the middle child of William H. Gates II, a prominent Seattle lawyer, and Mary Gates, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. Kvůli němu si chytří lidé myslí, že nemohou prohrát. [117] To raise awareness for the topic of sanitation and possible solutions, Gates drank water that was "produced from human feces" in 2014 – in fact it was produced from a sewage sludge treatment process called the Omni Processor. [20], Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955. [166], In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gates stated in regard to his faith: "The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. Bill Gates on Mosquitos, Malaria and Education. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. [27][28][29] Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child. Bill Gates married Melinda French and has 3 children. [24] They remained friends until Allen's death in October 2018. In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and Gates donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion. "Did I fence with Boies? The Notorious B.G. Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. [13][14] From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all but four of those years. Gates was a millionaire until age 30 he became a billionaire by age 31. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Bill Gates lahir dari seorang ayah yang bekerja sebagai pengacara perusahaan dan ibunya menjabat sebagai anggota dewan direktur di First Interstate BancSystems dan United Way. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served as the board of directors for Interstate Banc System and the United Way. [33] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers' Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the students. Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014.