Bill Gates
The people in his family are:
- Melinda Gates ( spouse )his wife ,
- Rory John Gates( his son),
- Jennifer Catherine Gates (his daughter),
- Phoebe Adele Gates(his other daughter),
- William Henry Gates II ( his father),
- Mary Maxwell Gates(his mother or mom),
- Libby Gates ( his sister),
- Kristi Gates ( his sister ),
- Lillian Elizabeth Rice (his first grandmother),
- James Willard Maxwell (his first grandfather),
- Adele Thompson ( his second grandmother )
- William Henry Gates I (second grandfather),
- William Henry Gates ( his great grandfather)
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Here is some important facts you might like to know :
- He's the richest man in America (second-richest in the world right now).
- He co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft.
- He's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill's childhood :
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He was the middle child of William H. Gates II, a Seattle lawyer, and Mary Gates, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. Bill had an older sister, Kristi, and a younger sister, Libby.
He did well in school and especially liked math and science. Sometimes he seemed bored and lonely, though. His parents removed him from public school and sent him to a private school.
When Bill turned thirteen his parents sent him to the Lakeside Preparatory School hoping it would prove more of a challenge for him. It was at Lakeside where Bill met his future business partner Paul Allen. He also was introduced to computers at Lakeside.
Microsoft:
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, investor,author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation.
Bill, 61, tone of the best-known invented of the personal computer revolution.
He founded what is considered the largest computer software company in the world, Microsoft, with Paul Allen.
The company officially established on April 4, 1975, with Bill as the CEO, but in 2008 he stepped down to concentrate with his charity work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Computers:
The first computer program that he ever wrote was a tic-tac-toe in BASIC language. Bill never looked back. Gates befriended Paul Allen, who was as smitten by computers as Gates. Once they got caught putting the bugs in the software program to get more free time and were banned from using the facility’s computer. Later they offered to fix the program to get some more computer time.
When Bill was growing up, there weren't home computers like the PC, the laptop, or the tablet like we have today. Computers were owned by large companies and took up lots of space. Lakeside school purchased time on one of these computers that the students could use. Bill found the computer fascinating.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:
6 Million lives were saved by Bill Gates with vaccines and better healthcare. $28 billion dollars were donated by Bill Gates so far According to Bill Gates, by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Bill Gates' Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
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In developing countries,Bill tries to focus on improving people’s health and well being, helping individuals lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, Bill seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—can access the opportunities they need to succeed in life.
Every year, millions of people find ways to transition out of poverty—by adopting new farming technologies, investing in new business opportunities, or finding new jobs. Bill knows women and girls have a unique power to reshape societies. When you invest in a woman’s health and empowerment, it has a ripple effect, helping families, communities, and countries achieve long-lasting benefits.
The Bill Gates Foundation work with partners to provide effective vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics and to develop approaches to deliver health services to those who need it most. And Bill invests heavily in developing new vaccines to prevent infectious diseases that impose the greatest burden.
Bill predicts a terrible bacteria coming soon:
- The biggest global risk Melinda Gates can imagine is "most definitely" a attack, on a terrible disease she said in an interview at South by Southwest.
- Melinda and Bill Gates have both repeatedly warned that the world is unprepared for an infectious disease outbreak, and experts agree that the risk is high.
- If you look at recent disease outbreaks around the globe, you can see how far we have to go in terms of preparation.
As the two wrote in their recently released "Goalkeepers" report, disease — both infectious and dangerous — is the biggest public health threat the world faces in the next decade. And although Bill Gates said on a press call at the time that "you can be pretty hopeful there'll be big progress" on the disease, we are still unprepared to deal with the infectious variety.
Bill Gates has repeatedly stated that he sees the disease as the greatest immediate threat to humanity on the planet.
"Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist scientist, say a fast-moving airborne disease could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year," Gates wrote in an op-ed for Business Insider last year. "And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience ch an outbreak in the next 10-15 years."