Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Bill’s dad was an attorney and his mom was a school teacher. When Bill was a kid he attended public school and in 1967 he went to Lakeside School. This is where Bill met his friend and future business partner Paul allen. Bill went to Harvard University from 1973 to 1975 for collage. When bill was in his senior year at harvard he left to devote his engineering skills to Microsoft which was founded in 1975. Mr. Gates started Microsoft on a belief that computers would be a tool on every desktop and in every home. Bill also founded a company that aided in visual information called Corbis.

In 2000 Bill and his wife, Melinda Gates, founded one of the world's biggest private charity foundation. In 2000 Bill publicly announced the opening of the foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given over $4 billion since it has started in 1996. It recently pledges of $1billion to help fund college scholarships for thousands of small groups of students for twenty years. Bill has given $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft supply to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation’s goal is to save lives and improve global health.

In sixth grade Bill wrote a paper imagining that he would run a company, and this happened years later. And in late 2016, Gates announced the beginning of a $1 billion discovery of an energy investment fund with around 20 other people. In 2001 Microsoft created the first and original XBox. In 1999 Mr. Gates wrote a book called “Business @ the speed of thought” that was made in 25 languages about how computer technology can help solve business problems in primarily new ways. Gates announced a new stage in Microsoft’s expancion which would let Bill concentrate his energies on strategy and the development of their products. Bill gave lots of his money to helping other countries by giving money to help the research, development, and delivery of vaccines to the poorest of countries.

These days Bill is focused mostly on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They also works with Rotary International to get rid of Polio. In 2013 Bill launched a $5.5 billion attempt to get rid of polio by the World Health Organization. Today bill owns only a little over 1% of shares in Microsoft. He has sold or given away most of his stakes in his own company. Mr. Gates invested in a lot of stocks and other assets. Bill Gates is now 63 years old and lives in a mansion that over looks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.

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