50 Things to know about Bill Gate.



1. Gates attended the
exclusive Lakeside School,
one of handful schools in
the US with a computer
terminal at the time. Gates
interest in the computer
programming was such that
he was excused from Math
classes to pursue it.


2. Gates hacked his school
program to schedule
students in classes, changing
the code so that he was
placed in classes with
“disproportionate number of
interesting girls.”


3. At 17, Gates sold his first
computer program, a
timetable system for his high
school for which he
pocketed a $4,200.


4. At Harvard he told
professors that he would
become a millionaire before
he was 30. By 31 he was a
billionaire.


5. In 1975, Gates dropped
out of Harvard and joined
his childhood friend Paul
Allen to form a company
which they named “Micro-
Soft.” The hyphen fell off
within a year.




6. During the first five years
of the company, Gates
reviewed every single line of
code the company shipped.

7. A money machine in the
most authentic sense of the
word would show that Gates
makes in average about
$250 per second, $15,000
per minute, and almost $20
million every day.

His net worth briefly
surpassed $101 billion 1999,
causing the media to call
“centibilionaire.”

8. If he was a country,
Gates would be the 37th
richest country on earth.




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