Bill Gates illustrious life? Why is Bill Gates so old

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Gates's sudden aging, '08 is the dividing line. Maybe it's the impact of the financial crisis, maybe Microsoft missed the opportunity for the development of the Internet, it was overtaken by Google and Facebook, and even its personal wealth has shrunk to the second place in the world, in short, all kinds of pressures are all on its face.

1. Bill Gates, full name William Henry Gates III, referred to as Bill or Gates. Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA, he is an entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, and founder of Microsoft. He used to be the chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft.

2. Bill Gates began computer programming design at the age of 13, was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 18, and founded Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen in 1975, Bill Gates served as the chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft.

3. Bill Gates became the richest man on the Forbes list of the world's richest people for 13 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007, and the richest man on the Forbes list of the richest people in the United States for 20 consecutive years. In 2000, Bill Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates** Association, in 2008 Bill Gates announced that he would donate $58 billion of personal wealth to the charity ** Association, and in 2014, Bill Gates resigned as chairman and repelled Carlos Slim to return to the world's richest man. On September 29, 2015 local time in the United States, Forbes released the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States, showing that Gates, the founder of Microsoft, topped the list for the 22nd consecutive year with a net worth of $76 billion On March 1, 2016, Forbes announced the latest list of the world's richest people in the world, although Bill Gates's personal wealth was $4.2 billion less than in 2015, but he still topped the list for three consecutive years with a personal wealth of $75 billion.

In October 2016, Forbes released the "America's 400 Richest List", and Bill Gates topped the list for the 23rd consecutive year with assets of $81 billion. On March 6, 2018, the Forbes 2018 rich list was released, and Bill Gates ranked second with $90 billion. In January 2019, he was selected as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Thinkers in the World in the Past Decade" by an American magazine.

On February 26, 2020, with a wealth of 740 billion yuan, it ranked third in the "2020 Hurun Global Rich List". On March 13, 2020, Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft's board of directors.