2. From 65438 to 0999, Mr. and Mrs. Gates renamed the William H. Gates Foundation as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and said that the purpose of the foundation was to reduce global inequality.
Extended information Bill Gates/Kloc-started computer programming at the age of 0/3,/Kloc-was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 0/8, and dropped out of Harvard one year later. 1975 founded Microsoft with his good friend paul allen. Bill Gates served as chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft.
From 1995 to 2007, Bill Gates became the richest man in Forbes for 13 years in a row and the richest man in the United States for 20 years in a row.
In 2000, Bill Gates founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008, Bill Gates announced that he would donate $58 billion of his personal property to charitable foundations. In 20 14, Bill Gates resigned as chairman, repelling Carlos Slim and returning to the richest man in the world.
On September 29th, 20 15, local time in the United States, Forbes released the list of the 400 richest people in the United States, showing that Microsoft founder Gates topped the list for the 22nd consecutive year with a net worth of $76 billion.
On March 16 and 1 day, Forbes published the latest global rich list. Although Bill Gates' personal wealth is $4.2 billion less than that of 20 15, he still topped the list for three consecutive years with his personal wealth of $75 billion. From 20 16 to 10, Forbes published the "America's 400 Rich List", and Bill Gates topped the list for the 23rd consecutive year with assets of $8 10 billion. ?
On March 6, 20 18, Forbes released the 20 18 rich list, and Bill Gates ranked second with $90 billion.
20 19 10 month, 19 was selected by American magazine as one of the "Top Ten Thinkers with the deepest influence on the world in the past decade". In March of 20 19, it ranked second in Forbes' list of global billionaires in 20 19 with a wealth of $96.5 billion.
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