8 Surprising facts about Bill Gates you don’t know

8 Surprising facts about Bill Gates you don’t know

Most people know three things about Bill Gates:

He's the richest man in America (second-richest in the world right now), he co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft, and he's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

But there are a lot of things about Gates you probably didn't know.

1. Full Name:

Bill Gates’ full name is William Henry Gates III.

 2. Education:

              The private school he attended as a child was one of the only schools in the US with a computer. The first program he ever used was a tic-tac-toe game. Once his school realized Gates' proclivities for coding, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes. He even slyly altered the code so he was placed in classes with a "disproportionate number of interesting girls.”

Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.

Bill gates SAT score was 1590 out of 1600.

3. Social networking:

             Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout. He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft. Gates was once arrested in New Mexico, in 1977. He was driving without a license and ran a red light.

Gates dropped out of Harvard just two years into his program to chase his dream (alongside Allen) of writing software for the new generation of computers that launched with the Altair 8800. Their company was called "Micro-Soft."

 4. State:

          The 66,000 sq ft. Gates estate in Washington took seven years and $63 million to build. Half a million board-feet of lumber went into the construction of the opulent property, which features a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling, a reception hall to accommodate up to 200 guests, 24 bathrooms, six kitchens and more.

 5. Earning:

            Bill Gates earns nearly 250 US Dollars every second. That’s about 20 million dollars a day and 7.2 Billion dollars a year! Bill Gates can pay off the entire United States debt in less than 10 years. At a spending rate of $1 million a day, it would take Bill Gates 218 years to spend all his money. Despite his immense wealth, Gates says his kids will only inherit $10 million each — just a fraction of his $81.1 billion net worth. "Leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them," he says.

6. Complexity:

               Bill Gates wrote rival Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed. When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

7. Language:

                  Gates doesn't know any foreign languages. That, he says, is his biggest regret in life thus far.

8. Funding:

                       Bill Gates and other investors have secured a 'doomsday seed vault' to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Bill Gates doesn't believe in leaving children a ton of money as inheritance; his three kids (daughters Jennifer and Phoebe and son Rory) are set to inherit just $10 million each of his multi-billion dollar fortune. Million lives were saved by Bill Gates with vaccines and better healthcare.

    

                          

What's on Bill's bucket list? Just don't die