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Read the following biography text and answer the questions! Bill Gates William Henry Gates was born on 28th of October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet. Recent estimates of his wealth put it at US$84.2 billion (Jan. 20 17); this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies. Bill Gates is married to Melinda French in 1994 in Hawaii. They have three children Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates formed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by the government; he also expressed an interest in improving the standards of public school education in the US. His father parents William Gates Sr, was a senior lawyer, and his mother, Maly, served as an executive for a major bank The family was wealthy but remembering the challenges of the great depression, they encouraged their children to work hard and take nothing for granted. Aged 13, Gates attended the private Lakeside school. It was here that Gates had his first introduction to computers. He taught himself to program in basic, making a simple 'Tic-Tac-Toe' game. Gates enjoyed the process of working with computers and arranged with a company Computer Center Corporation (CCC) to spend time on their computers - learning source code, such as Fortran, Machine Code and Lisp. In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard, where he studied mathematics and computer science. However, Gates was more interested in pursuing his own coding, and when he saw an opportunity to found his own company, he dropped out ofHarvard without finishing his course. Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers. In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests. It is estimated Gates and his wife, Melinda, have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation-including $8 billion to improve global health. Source:http://www.biographyonline. netlbusiness/bill-gates. html Questions: 2. What do you know about Bill Gates?

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