Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, founder of Microsoft, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (foreign). Formerly chairman, CEO and chief software architect of Microsoft.

Bill Gates started computer programming at the age of 13, and was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 18. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. Bill Gates served as the chairman, CEO and CEO of Microsoft. Chief Software Designer.

Bill Gates has been the top richest person in the world according to Forbes for 13 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007, and the top richest person in the United States according to Forbes for 20 consecutive years.

In 2000, Bill Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008, Bill Gates announced that he would donate US$58 billion of his personal fortune to charitable foundations. In 2014, Bill Gates Resigned as chairman and returned to be the richest man in the world.

On September 29, 2015, Microsoft founder Gates ranked first in Forbes for the 22nd consecutive year with a net worth of US$76 billion. In November 2017, Bill Gates was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. .

In January 2019, he was selected as one of the "Top Ten Thinkers Who Have Most Influenced the World in the Past Decade" by an American magazine. On February 26, 2020, he ranked third in the "2020 Hurun Global Rich List" with a wealth of 740 billion yuan. On March 13, 2020, Bill Gates resigned from the Microsoft board of directors.

In the early morning of May 4, 2021, Beijing time, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced the end of their 27-year marriage. On May 17, Microsoft's board of directors decided that Bill Gates should leave the board of directors.

Personal Troubles

After announcing his divorce, the former world’s richest man and Microsoft founder Bill Gates was exposed to be investigated by Microsoft’s board of directors. The investigation centered on his “inappropriate” relationship with female employees. "The relationship unfolds.

According to reports from the "Wall Street Journal" and other US media on the 16th local time, members of Microsoft's board of directors have decided that Bill Gates will resign from the board of directors in 2020. Prior to this, the board of directors had begun an investigation into Gates' relationship with A romance between a female employee.

In response, a spokesman for Gates said that Gates' decision to leave the board had nothing to do with his romantic relationships with employees. "They had a relationship almost 20 years ago, which ended amicably."

The New York Times reported in 2019 that Gates and Epstein met several times, and once Stayed late at his villa in New York. Epstein died in prison two months ago while awaiting trial on federal charges related to sex trafficking.

On May 16, 2021, the New York Times reported that according to relevant sources, Melinda Gates had expressed uneasiness about her husband spending time with a sexual predator, but Gates still Keep doing this.