fifteen things you didn't know about Bill Gates

fifteen things you didn't know about Bill Gates

 the most famous Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen wanting to become the world's largest PC software company and succeeding. 

He's also an author public speaker extremely prominent philanthropist and one of our favorite dropouts because a LOX command is dedicated to becoming the world's best resource on the most influential entrepreneurs and business people we're working on an entire series with important figures that aspire us to become better this time we're taking a look at 15 things you didn't know about .......

1. Bill Gates number one : : he has been Forbes world's richest man for 17 years and is still the current richest we may as well start with the big bucks he hasn't been the richest man for 17 years running with a few breaks along the way but he has been in that list more than anyone else as of 2017 he's the current richest man in the world with Spanish retailer Amancio Ortega coming in second when he was young he wanted to become a millionaire by the time he turned 30 he managed to become a billionaire at 31 .

2. Bill gates number two : : his charitable deeds make him the most generous person on earth all that wealth has led to a lot of generosity is given away over twenty seven billion dollars throughout his life through the charitable organization he runs with his wife and has pledged to give ninety-five percent of his wealth to charitable causes throughout his life .

3.Bill Gates number three : : the first computer program he wrote was a game of tic-tac-toe during his time at lake side prep school he created a program on the one General Electric computer that the school had he was 13 at the time and his creativity led the school to give him the job of writing the computer code that scheduled classes gates abused his power slightly and made sure he put himself in all of the classes with the most girls despite dropping out of college . Bill was a very successful student on his SATs he scored 1590 out of 1600 number four in 1994 . 

4.Bill Gates number four : : gates bought a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings for 31 million dollars the Kodak slicer was bought at auction by gates and it gives a unique insight into the mind of the great Renaissance artist and inventor when he bought it Gates had the pages scanned into digital copies which he published online for free so everyone has access to them he even had them become Microsoft wallpaper and screen saver files since then it's been on display around the world .

5. Bill Gates number five : :  in the first five years of Microsoft Gates personally checked every line of code and rewrote it himself if there was an error as a skilled programmer Gates was able to oversee every aspect of his small company in the early years at this point they were still operating from a house in Bellevue Washington around 20 years later Jeff Bezos would found Amazon in Bellevue -may be there's something in the water speaking of Jeff .

6.  Bill Gates number six : : he's got a net worth of over 80 billion dollars but gates is leaving ten million to each of his children rather than dividing his entire fortune up equally his children are getting comparatively modest inheritances Gates is quoted as saying leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them so he's literally putting his money where his mouth is this is an interesting move especially considering the kids should be worth billions just hypothetically if Bill Gates was a country he'd be the 63 rd richest country in the world four to five times richer than North Korea.

7.Bill gates number seven : : when Steve Jobs was dying of cancer Gates wrote him a letter and he kept it beside his bed they were famous rivals but the two men also had a strong bond and spent a lot of time together when Jobs was dying Gates insists there was no need to make peace with jobs we were not at war we made great products and competition was always a positive thing if you've watched our video on Apple you'll know that Gates stole Microsoft from jobs that's how they all got started regarding the accusations of stealing bill once said it's like we both had this rich neighbor called Xerox and when I broke in to steal his TV I found out that you already stole it .

8. Bill gates number eight : : 

Gates is an honorary knighthood from the Queen but cannot call himself sir Gates received this honor from the Queen in 2005 and apparently chatted to her about computers you have to be British to be able to call yourself sir ordained so Gates's American citizenship means he can't enjoy this aspect of a knighthood but he does get to use the initials kbe after his name. 

9.Bill gates number nine : : he has promised $100,000 to who ever creates the next generation condom which ever scientist is the first to create a condom which quote significantly preserves or enhances pleasure will receive a big check from gates as a thank you one of the main focuses of the Gates Foundation is access to health care around the world so a condom people actually want to use would protect a lot of people from STI's besides that the man's on a mission to have no poor countries in the world by 2035 .

 10 .Bill gates number ten : : at his wedding to Melinda French bill rented out every hotel room in the hotel to ensure privacy the wedding budget was clearly vast and money does buy privacy when they married in Hawaii gates chartered every helicopter on the island and booked up the entire hotel so no journalists or interested parties could eavesdrop talk about being a big baller Gates is definitely in a lexer .

11.Bill gates number eleven : : Gates's home has a super intelligent operating system that can be customized by his guests if you're lucky enough to be invited into his Washingtone state nick named Zandu 2.0 you're asked to wear a pin badge which will adjust lighting temperature and music to their liking you can change the artwork with a button and there is a trampoline room to owning such an incredible house comes at a pricehe's paying 1 million dollars per year in property taxes for his house speaking of taxes .

12.Bill gates number twelve : : in 2006 the IRS used a special computer to calculate Gates's taxes his tax returns can't be processed on a normal computer so they can accommodate all of those zeros no one knows which operating system this particular computer uses but we hope it's Microsoft and not line ups .

13.Bill gates number thirteen : : the profile place holder image For Microsoft Outlook 2010 is based on Bill Gates's 1977 mugshot Gates was arrested for speeding and driving without a license in Mexico when he was 21immediately paying his bail from his wallet and had a smiling mugshot the outline of this mug shot became the basis of the placeholder image forMicrosoft's email program.

14. Bill gates number fourteen : : in1998 Bill Gates was earning about 1million dollars every hour this equates to $300 every second and an hourly rate most of us could never even dream of this is where thee it wouldn't be worth it for him to bend over and pick up a thousand dollar bill joke comes from but bills are really not that type of guy he continued to fly coach up until 1997even though at the time he was worth 36 billion.

15.Bill gates  number fifteen : : Gates has patented a weather controlling machine the machine doesn't stop it from raining so that Gates can go on his private beach it's a bit bigger than that the machine pumps cold water into the ocean and attempts to block or at least lessen hurricanes speaking of machines he recently financed one that turns poop into water Bill Gates is truly an incredible man and not just because he's changed the world through his technology but because of his many charitable deeds to it suggested that he saved five millionlives through funding vaccines around the world if you are a billionaire like Bill what would your priorities be would you be in the office for twenty hours a day working on new inventions or wouldyou be taking Lamborghinis for test drives all day oh you're still here well here's another amazing fact about Bill Gates for you if he does only give his children 10million each he will be set to give away more than 95 percent of his wealth just as he's promised there's no other billionaire in the world who can claim the same also the only thing left on his bucket list is not to die ....

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