Bill Gates

• Real Time Net Worth As of 10/15/15
• $77.4 Billion
• Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Source Of Wealth

Microsoft, Self Made 

 

Age - 59
 

Self-Made Score

8

Residence

Medina, WA

Citizenship

United States

Marital Status

Married

Children

3

Education

Drop Out, Harvard University

 

 

 

Forty years ago, when Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, Gates' goal of getting a computer on every person's desk seemed audacious. Now, 84% of U.S. households own a computer. Gates has less and less to do with the company. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft last year, and now is focused more fully on using his billions to improve humanity's lot through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In June 2015, European regulators gave the green light to the world's first malaria vaccine, developed by GlaxoSmithKline in conjunction with PATH, a nonprofit group supported by the Gates Foundation. He's also focused on social policy in the U.S., donating heavily to improve education, giving $1 million with his wife, Melinda, to support a gun-control initiative in his home state of Washington and penning an editorial in the New York Times with fellow billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett encouraging Congress to pass immigration reform. Each year, Gates sells more of his Microsoft shares. His stake in the company, now just under 3%, constitutes roughly 13% of his estimated fortune.