Bill Gates
Wealthy genius
Bill Gates
. “Gates help 45 percent of the company’s 24.7 million shares and became an instant millionaire at age 31. Gates has been at the top of Forbes Annual List of the Top 400 Wealthiest People in America” (‘Bill”).
“Bill Gates and Paul Allen left their junior year at Harvard and formed Microsoft, after a shaky start, the company grew quickly in the 80’s” (‘William”).
“Bill created Windows. Windows was named for the separate frames users could create on the computer screen. The first version of Windows was sold in the United States in 1986” (“Bill”).
“Gated poured 50 million towards finding a cure for malaria in 2001. He has spent over one billion dollars in donations toward the disease” (Heim).
“Gates established the William H. Gates foundation supporting education, world health, and investment in low income communities, he started by donating 28 billion to set it up. The Gates Foundation has poured 218 million into polio and measles immunization and research worldwide” (“Bill”).