2006-10-27 05:33:19 · 27 answers · asked by bimbo 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
the richest guy on earth
2006-10-27 05:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by ~electra~ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world's wealthiest men. Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the 1970s, though Allen left the company in 1983. Gates oversaw the invention and marketing of the MS-DOS operating system, the Windows operating interface, the Internet Explorer browser, and a multitude of other popular computer products. Along the way he gained a reputation for fierce competitiveness and aggressive business savvy. During the 1990s rising Microsoft stock prices made Gates the world's wealthiest man; his wealth has at times exceeded $75 billion, making Gates a popular symbol of the ascendant computer geek of the late 20th century. In June of 2006, Gates announced that he would step down from day-to-day involvement in Microsoft by July of 2008. He said he would then remain chairman of the Microsoft board while focusing on his charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates married Melinda French, a Microsoft employee, on 1 January 1994. The couple have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine (b. 1996) and Phoebe Adele (b. 2002) and son Rory John (b. 1999)... Gates's personal chartiable initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has focused on global health issues, especially on preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries; in 2005, ABC News reported that he had given away over six billion dollars in the previous five years... For their philanthropic activities, Time magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates (along with rock star and activist Bono) its Persons of the Year for 2005.
2006-10-27 12:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by retiro c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. He is also the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company. Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person on earth for the last thirteen consecutive years. According to the Forbes 2006 magazine, Bill Gates's current net worth is approximately $53 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family.[3][4]
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition.[5][6] He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money (about 52% of his total fortune) to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000. On June 16, 2006, Bill Gates announced that he would move to a part-time role with Microsoft (leaving day-to-day operations management) in 2008 to begin a career in philanthropy, but will remain as chairman; the announcement coincided with decisions by billionaire Warren Buffett to double the Gates Foundation, matching contributions $1.5 billion in stock per year for 20 years.[7]
Time magazine has ranked Bill Gates among the world's most influential people more times than any other man, and as one of only four people in history to have shaped both the 20th century and the early 21st. Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. That same year he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2006, Gates Foundation was awarded the Premio PrÃncipe de Asturias en Cooperación Internacional. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time".
2006-10-27 12:35:54 · answer #3 · answered by Eranga D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You dont know Bill Gates.Well, he's a human who found the microsoft company and he is probably the richest man alive
2006-10-27 12:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by Serah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. Before giving away billions of $$$, he was at one time the richest man in the world.
2006-10-27 12:53:26 · answer #5 · answered by Tony M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Founder of Microsoft.
2006-10-27 12:35:11 · answer #6 · answered by jjuneified 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The richest dude in the planet, okay make that the whole solar system, he can buy the moon and still remain the richest person ever.
2006-10-27 12:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by Dawn Treader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the richest men in the world. He is the owner and creator of Microsoft.
2006-10-27 12:35:24 · answer #8 · answered by Kat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The former head of Microsoft. He's the guy who invented Windows.
2006-10-27 12:34:48 · answer #9 · answered by randomidentification 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The guy who started Microsoft.
2006-10-27 12:34:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one of the richest men in the world he owns microsoft computer softwear company anything microsoft he owns but have you ever heard this saying its harder for a rich man to make it into heaven its easyer to fit a camel through the eye of a needle then a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven theres no trade in my eyes
2006-10-27 12:38:51 · answer #11 · answered by polkahaunis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋