Amazon Quiz: When was Bill Gates, who was once upon a time the richest person in the world, born?
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Answer: 28th October
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, Unites States. His father, William H. Gates Sr., was an attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader. His mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, was a businesswoman and a civic leader.
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Gates reportedly wrote his first computer program at the age of 13. Gates studied at Harvard University but dropped out before completing his degree. He and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975. It rose to become the biggest personal computer software provider in the world.
Gates changed his employment status in June 2008 from a full-time position at Microsoft to a part-time one at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic organisation he and his then-wife, Melinda Gates, founded in 2000.
Gates has appeared on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people every year since 1987. With the exception of the years 2010 to 2013, he consistently held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world from 1995 to 2017. He was eclipsed in wealth in October 2017 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, who at the time had an estimated net worth of $90.6 billion as opposed to Gates’s $89.9 billion.
