Biography
Birth date: 28 October 1955
Education: Public elementary school,private Lakeside School at age 12, Dropped out of Harvard University junior year.
Native City: Seattle, Washington
Little known fact: His family called him “Trey,” in reference to the III after his name.
Hobbies: Bridge, golf, reading, philanthropy.
Claim to renown: The computing software’s industry.
Net worth: Bill’s all-time high net worth is $58 Billion.
Preferred foods: Cherry Coke and spray cheese
Family: wife: Melinda; daughter: Jennifer, born 1996; son: Rory, born 1999.
1: Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2: If he drops a thousand dollar, he won’t even bother to pick it up because the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.
3: The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4: He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US $5 Million for his pocket money.
5: Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
6: If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
7: If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
8: If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 days!
9: Finally He has a Twitter account, but had a problem with Facebook: “… Because the friend requests got out of hand.
10: Bill Gates’s SAT score was 1590. The top score for the test is 1600.
11: By the age of 17, Bill Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
12: Bill Gates told his university teachers, he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.
13: While at Harvard, Bill Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first product.
14: Bill Gates met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
15: Bill Gates parents- Bill Sr. & Mary Gates
16: In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tun-gin a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
17: Bill Gate is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
18: Bill Gates bans his wife and three children from use of arch-rival Apple’s products. Instead of iPad or IPod, they would rather go for the Zune player.
19: Bill Gates favorite car is definitely Porsche. He owns a 1999 Porsche 911 convertible, which is quite a rare car. His other car is a 1988 Porsche 959 Coupe, which is one of 230 made by Porsche. In fact, due to the 959’s questionable emissions and unknown crash ratings, It took a federal law signed by President Clinton to legally drive his 959 on American roads.
20: If we assume that Bill Gate will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven
