A detailed introduction of Bill Gates

English name: William H. Gates III KBE (William H. Gates III, young William H. Gates, Bill Gates third, Bill Gates)

Chinese name: Sir William Henry Gates III (William Henry Gates III, William Henry Gates Jr., william gates III, Bill Gates)

Date of birth:1955 65438+1October 28th.

Place of birth: Seattle, Washington, USA

Constellation: Scorpio

Height: 180cm

Weight: 80kg

Nicknames: "computer prodigy" and "left-handed"

Hobbies: table tennis, go.

Favorite singer: John Lennon

Favorite food: hamburgers and coke.

Admirers: Napoleon Warren Buffett

Mottos: "I am the king" and "I can win"

Ideal: the speed to lead the world to the future.

Socialization: I don't want to contact people actively, but I can talk easily when I am depressed.

Faith: devout Catholic

Emotion: sudden panic and anger

Idea: In the 2 1 century, computers and the Internet will make the distribution of wealth and power more even.

Management: "propeller thinking" and "Darwinian management" are the most effective means to run Microsoft. Digital nervous system is the inevitable mode of future management.

E-mail :askbill@microsoft.com

Retirement date: June 27, 2008

Bill Gates (1955-) is one of the founders, former chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft.

Bill Gates is the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. Microsoft is a global leader in personal computing and business computing software, services and Internet technology. In the last fiscal year ending June 2002, Microsoft's revenue reached $28.37 billion, and it operated in 78 countries and regions. The total number of employees in the world exceeds 565,438+0,500.

Gates was born in 1955, grew up in Seattle, and has two sisters. Their father, william gates II, is a Seattle lawyer. Gates' late mother, mary gates, was a school teacher, a director of the University of Washington and the president of the United International Organization.

Gates attended a public elementary school and a private lakeside middle school in Seattle. There, he discovered his interest in software and started computer programming at the age of 13.

From 65438 to 0973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University. Now steve ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and I have become good friends. At Harvard, Gates developed a BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, MITS Altair.

In his junior year, Gates left Harvard and devoted all his energy to the Microsoft Company founded by him and his childhood friend paul allen in 1975. Guided by the belief that computers will become the most important tool in every home and office, they began to develop software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his foresight in personal computers have become the key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Under the leadership of Gates, Microsoft constantly develops and improves software technology to make software easier to use, more economical and more interesting. The company is committed to long-term development, as can be seen from the current annual R&D expenditure of more than 5 billion US dollars.

From 65438 to 0999, Gates wrote the book Business @ The Speed of Thinking: Using Digital Nervous System, which showed people how computer technology can solve business problems in a brand-new way. This book is published in 25 languages in more than 60 countries. Future Speed won wide acclaim and was listed as a best seller by The New York Times, USA-Today and The Amazon.com Wall Street Journal. Gates' last book, The Way Forward, was published in 1995, and once topped the The New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks.

Gates donated all the proceeds of the two books to non-profit organizations to support the use of science and technology in education and skills training.

In addition to his passion for computers and software, Gates is also interested in biotechnology. He is a member of the board of directors of ICOS, a company specializing in protein matrix and small molecule therapy. He is also an investor in many other biotechnology companies. Gates also founded Corbis, which is researching and developing one of the largest visible information resources in the world-a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography works from public and private collections around the world. In addition, Gates also invested in Teledesic with Craig McCaw, a pioneer in mobile phones. This is an ambitious plan, using hundreds of low-orbit satellites to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services covering the whole world.

For Gates, philanthropy is also very important. He and his wife Melinda have donated $3.46 billion to set up a fund to support charities in the fields of medical care, health and education around the world. It is hoped that as mankind enters the 2 1 century, the scientific and technological progress in these key fields will benefit all mankind. Up to today, the foundation established by Gates and his wife Melinda Gates has spent $65.438+73 billion on global health, and more than $900 million has been used to improve people's learning conditions, including purchasing computer equipment for Gates Library and providing Internet training and Internet access services for public libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada. In addition, more than 260 million US dollars will be used for community projects in the Pacific Northwest, and more than 380 million US dollars will be used for some special projects and annual gift distribution activities.

Gates and Melinda Gates of France got married in June 1994 65438+ 10/. They have three children. Gates likes reading, playing golf and bridge. Only Bill Gates in the world thinks Buffett is not a miser.

He is a genius. He/Kloc-started programming at the age of 0/3 and predicted that he would become a millionaire at the age of 25. He is a business wizard, whose unique vision always allows him to accurately see the future of the IT industry, and his unique management method keeps the growing Microsoft alive. His wealth is even more a myth. At the age of 39, he became the richest man in the world and topped Forbes for 13 years in a row. This myth, like dazzling fireworks in the night sky, stung the eyes of hundreds of millions of people. He is the chairman and chief software designer of Microsoft. Microsoft is a global leader in providing software, services and Internet technology for personal computing and business computing. In the last fiscal year ending in June 2002, Microsoft's revenue reached $28.37 billion, and the total number of employees in 60 countries exceeded 50,000.

Annual wealth/billion dollar ranking

2009 400 1

2008 580 3

2007 560 1

2006 500 1

2005 465 1

2004 466 1

2003 407 1

2002 528 1

200 1 587 1

William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and billionaire. He is the founder of Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine, Gates is the richest man in the world (before 2008). According to another statistic, the wealth of Gates alone exceeds the sum of the wealth of the poorest 50% people in the world. It has been calculated that Bill Gates' wealth can buy 3 1.57 space shuttles, or 344 Boeing 747s, shoot 268 Titanic and buy 654,380+056,000 Bentley continental luxury cars made by Rolls-Royce.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, is a household name, but the following information about him may not be so widely known. Do you think it's weird?

● William Henry Gates 19551October 28th was born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

His father William is a company lawyer and his mother Mary is a school teacher.

When Kloc-0/7 years old, Gates sold his first computer programming work-a timetable system. The buyer is his high school and the price is $4,200.

● Gates standardized SAT (American College Entrance Examination) score 1590, and the full score of this exam is 1600.

Gates told his university teacher that he became a millionaire at the age of 30, and by 3 1, he had become a billionaire. In other words, Gates knew that he would be rich in the future, but he didn't expect to be so rich.

While at Harvard, Gates helped write Altair BASIC, which became the first product of Microsoft (then called Microsoft).

He met his future wife Melinda French at the launch ceremony held by Microsoft in Manhattan in 1987, when Melinda was an employee of Microsoft. They got married on New Year's Day on 1994.

When Gates is thinking or absorbed, he will swing back and forth in his chair. This quirk can be traced back to his childhood, and he liked to swing on the wooden horse for hours. Later, Microsoft employees got used to seeing their leaders think, listen and sway while attending meetings. ...

● In 2005, Gates was awarded the Commander Medal of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

● In March 2007, Forbes magazine once again selected Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, which was the first consecutive year 13. At present, his worth is $58 billion.

Gates recently announced that he would gradually quit his job at Microsoft and devote more time to charity.

At present, Carnegie Mellon University (a university in Pennsylvania, USA) has a building named after Gates-Gates Computer Science Building.

● Gates is the latest owner of leonardo da vinci's 72-page manuscript The Leicester Code. This manuscript contains observations on the nature of water, astronomy, rocks and fossils. Gates publicly exhibits manuscripts in different cities around the world once a year.

Bill Gates earns $250 a second, $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year.

The national debt of the United States is about $562 billion. If Bill Gates returns, he can bear 10% alone.