IT PERSONALITIY "BILL GATES"

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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the 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.

Gates co-founded Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it went on to become the world's largest personal computer software company.Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, but he remained chairman and became chief software architect.During the late 1990s, Gates had been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings.In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.

He got the title of:-

Co-chairman and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Chairman and founder of Branded Entertainment Network

Chairman and co-founder of TerraPower

Chairman and founder of Cascade Investment

Technology advisor of Microsoft

He has a net worth of   US$105.6 billion (May 2020). He held the Forbes of the richest person in the world. 

Later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors. He has given sizable amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest private charity. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy.

There is a famous inspiring quote by Bill Gates it is-

"Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if  you do so, you are insulting yourself"

This was the journey of success of Bill Gates, hope you found it informative.

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