Can Gates be called a great man?

Use, save money and be more fun. The company is committed to long-term development, as can be seen from the current R&D expenditure of more than $5 billion per fiscal year.

From 65438 to 0999, Gates wrote the book Future Speed, 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 visual 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 more than $24 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 more than $2.5 billion on global health, and more than $65.438+0.4 billion on improving 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 will be used for community projects in the Pacific Northwest, and more than $380 million will be used for 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.

Gates' wealth

In 2004, the tenth year, Bill Gates firmly sat at the top of the Forbes rich list. One of the founders and chairman of Microsoft, 1997 has lived in a two-hectare mansion in Fiona Fang, worth 1. 1 billion dollars. At the same time, he was the most generous person in the world in 2004, and his charitable donations exceeded $3 billion.

According to Forbes. The "wizard" of the computer age is worth $46.6 billion, much less than the record of $654.38+$0998, but such wealth has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people. Maybe this calculation will be easier to understand:

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

If Gates drops $65,438+0,000, he won't bother to pick it up, because it takes him four seconds to pick it up, and he has already earned $65,438+0,000 by bending over.

The national debt of the United States is about $5.62 trillion. If Gates pays it back, he can pay off the US debt within 10 years.

If Gates donates 15 dollars to everyone on the earth, finally, he still has 5 million dollars in pocket money;

If Gates were a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth, or the 13 largest company in the United States, even bigger than IBM.

If Gates changes all his money into 1 USD, you can build a road connecting the earth and the moon, and go back and forth 14 times, but you must build this road continuously 1400 years, and use 73 1 Boeing 747 aircraft to transport the money.

You can be considered a rich man.