Biography of Bill Gates: the wealthiest man in the world

Bill Gate is an interesting person to know about as he developed the Microsoft software that we all used. He's a young and talented person and now almost retiring with working as an investor at his charitable foundation called the Bill and Melinda Charity foundation. The foundation set up to give to a lot of research organizations and record of spending and details are more available than other foundation. There are a lot of other people who join the foundation to donate too.

Bill and Melinda have gave over $26 billion to charity which is probably the largest amount given in the world. Bill Gate was the richest person named in Forbes for over 15 years and now he's probably the second richest man on Earth. He has accomplished a lot in his lifetime and already at a young age. He came from an upper middle class family with his father being a lawyer and his mother a president of a financial institution. He's was a well to do kid in a well to do family. He went to Harvard but took a leave to work on his business and partnership.

He has an IQ of 170 which is one of the highest number of IQ. This is the level of geniuses and it's often quoted by the press. With this high score, he studied at Harvard but was undecided major and he spend a lot of time using the school's computer as we all know his fascination for computer. The cute thing in noticing about Bill Gate is that he spend most of his High School time working and messing about with his school's computer that he got ban from using it too. He took a great interest in writing programming codes ever since he was in High School and with that he continues to write the program Micro-soft with his Harvard partners.

He partner up and then went with his own company Microsoft in writing software. He was chairman and president for Microsoft but now has named someone else and spends most of his time at his charitable foundation. He was a computer enthusiast ever since he was a kid and it has earned him the world's wealthiest man for fifteen years. If you're an academic institution or medical research company you can apply for research grants with the Bill and Melinda gate foundation. The charity organization also give grants to students who qualify for it. If you're a student in need of a grant you can apply to the program and they'll notify you when you have been approved. You will need to apply in time and have all documents for them.

Source: http://www.wikipedia.com