2023-07-19 08:02:54
Adolescent, Bill Gates is passionate regarding computer programming. He dropped out of Harvard to co-found the software company Microsoft with his high school friend Paul Allen in 1975, creating some of the first software available for the nascent personal computer industry. He was the company’s CEO for 25 years and remained its chairman until 2014. He eventually left the board in 2020, but has declared to Forbes at the beginning of 2023 that he still spent around 10% of his time advising the teams of Microsoft. Today, he invests in dozens of companies, including Republic Services, a waste removal company, and Deere & Co, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment, and he is one of the largest owners of farmland. in the USA.
Forbes ranked M. Gates among the billionaires for the first time in 1987; he was the richest person in the world from 1995 to 2017 (excluding 2008 and 2010 to 2013). Largely thanks to the $59 billion (54 billion euros) he gave to the Gates Foundation, including a $20 billion (18 billion euros) donation in July 2022, he was surpassed in as the richest person in the world in 2018 by Jeff Bezos. Melinda French Gates and he divorced in 2021; she received at least $6 billion (5.5 billion euros) in shares as part of the divorce settlement. Forbes estimates that Mr. Gates’ fortune increased by $5.3 billion (4.8 billion euros) between June 1 and July 1, 2023.
#5 Bill Gates
Net value : $119.3 billion (€109.6 billion)
Source : Microsoft, investments
Age : 67 ans
Place of residence: Medina, Washington
Citizenship: American
Article translated from Forbes US – Author: Forbes Wealth Team
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