7 interesting facts about Bill Gates

According to his popularity, Bill Gates, businessman, programmer, philanthropist, and just a good man, can still compete with the stars of show business and cinema. Each of his interview becomes an event, and the books written by him so far have not lost relevance. Are you sure you already know everything about this extraordinary man? Believe me, it is not so!

The present name of the person whom everyone called "Bill Gates" - William Henry Gates III (William Henry Gates III). His great-grandfather was the mayor and senator, grandfather - the vice-president of the National Bank.

His first company Gates, Paul Allen (Paul Allen) and Paul Gilbert (Paul Gilbert) organized when Bill was 17 years old. They invented and sold special counters that recorded road traffic density. Although the company Traf-O-Data can not be called a success, yet she gave the young entrepreneurs valuable experience that they can use later to create Microsoft.

Currently, Bill Gates earns about $ 250 every second. It is about 20 million dollars a day, or $ 7.2 billion per year. If cash flows are stopped completely and he decided to spend a million dollars every day, it would have become bankrupt only after 218 years.

Charitable FoundationBased Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - the largest in the world. Its main objectives are to maintain and improve the health system, as well as overcoming hunger in poor countries. During the existence of the Gates Foundation donated in his $ 28 billion. Each year the organization spends on their projects more money than the UN World Health Organization.

Although Bill Gates back in 2008 announced the resignation the head of Microsoft, it does not mean that it is completely stopped the relationship with the company. He remains the largest shareholder, a member of the Board of Directors and participates in the development of certain specific projects. In January 2015, Gates I told in communion with Reddit users, which is busy developing a kind of "personal now Assistant ", which has artificial intelligence and is able not only to remember everything, but to anticipate events. Who knows, maybe the best development Bill Gates is yet to come?

Favorite musical artist Bill Gates called Weezer. An excellent choice for the billionaire computer geek, is not it? He also loves U2 and still waits for the group Spinal Tap go to the next tour.

Earlier this year, Bill Gates was involved in the project campaign OmniProcessorFunded by his foundation. This is an experimental mobile unit, which combines an incinerator and a sewage treatment system. It is able to recycle waste into clean water and electricity - something that is lacking in some African countries. In that video you with their own eyes can see, as the richest man drinking water in the world, extracted from human excrement.

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