THE MOTIVATION PROJECT | The Success Story of Bill Gates
Channel: The Motivation Project
Date: 2021-02-07

THE MOTIVATION PROJECT | The Success Story of Bill Gates |  The World's Richest College Dropout

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all but four of those years. In October 2017, he was surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an estimated net worth of US$90.6 billion compared to Gates's net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time. As of January 2021, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$163 billion, making him the third-richest person in the world.

But there are a lot of things about Gates you probably didn't know. 

1. As a young teenager at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer.
2. Once his school realized Gates' proclivities for coding, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes.
3. Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout. 
4. Gates was once arrested in New Mexico, in 1977. 
5. He used to fly coach until 1997. 
6. One of Gates' biggest splurges, besides his plane, was the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci. 
7. Despite his immense wealth, Gates says his kids will only inherit $10 million each.
8. Gates doesn't know any foreign languages. 
9. He used to memorize the license plates of his employees at Microsoft.
10. Gates says if Microsoft hadn't worked out, he probably would've been a researcher for artificial intelligence.
11. His favorite band? Weezer. 
12. Gates reads 50 books a year.

- [10 Surprising Facts About Bill Gates - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/242705]

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