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Billionaire Entrepreneur Bill Gates

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Born William Henry Gates III, Bill's nickname as a child was "Trey," reflective of The Third" following his moniker, as he was the fourth consecutive Gates man of the same name.

 

Back in his school days, Bill Gates wrote a computer program for scheduling students in classes, 

 

Bill almost achieved his goal of being a millionaire by the age of 30. He became a millionaire at 31.

 

His all-time favorite business book is Business Adventures by New Yorker's John Brooks, published in 1969.

 

Gates earned an honorary degree from Harvard in 2007, thirty-two years after dropping out.

 

Bill Gates has a lifetime McDonald’s Gold Card for unlimited free food. 

 

Bill Gates had written a letter to Steve Jobs, while he was suffering from cancer. Then, Steve Jobs kept it at his bedside. 

posted Aug 2, 2017 by Robin Rj

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Bill Gates is an American business magnate, author, investor, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman,  chief software architect and CEO  and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.

 

Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014

 

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