Because of the two concepts of American charitable funds and China, American charitable funds can make money by investing, and only need to donate 5% of their money every year.

In 2004, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, announced that he would donate $3.35 billion to his charitable foundation. At this time, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has assets of $27 billion, and with this donation of $3.3 billion, the total assets of the Foundation will exceed $30 billion, making it the largest charitable foundation in the United States.

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1977 65438+ 10 In October, Gates dropped out of Harvard University and went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. There, he found a job writing programs for Roberts, and his salary was $65,438 per hour. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque, where Gates also set up Microsoft headquarters.

During 1977, when Secretary Gates entered the Microsoft office building, he often found Gates himself lying on the floor sleeping. At this time, he still likes to eat pizza, and at the same time, he is very strict with his colleagues, and he often has fierce quarrels with his colleagues. Gates used to say, "This is the stupidest idea I have ever heard."

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