Philanthropist Bill Gates

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India conferred the Padma Bhushan award on billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co- founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates in 2015, for their remarkable work to improve health in developing countries. Their foundation, named the Bill and  Melinda Gates Foundation, is actively involved and has poured in billions of dollars into medical research in developing countries.

Entrepreneur Bill Gates founded the world’s largest PC software company called Microsoft with Paul Allen, and he subsequently became one of the richest men n the world according to the Forbes list from 1995-2014.

William Henry Gates III, popularly known as Bill Gates, was born on 28 October 1955in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates Sr. and Marry Maxwell. He grew up in an upper middle class family with two sisters. He had a very close relationship with his mother, Marry.

Bill’s mother, Marry ,was a teacher who gave up her career after a brief period to devote time raising the children and to work with  charities as well  as on civic affairs.

Bill was enrolled at Seattle’s Lakeside school when he turned 13 and excelled  in all subjects, especially in maths and science. At Lakeside school, a computer company offered to provide computer time for students. Bill Gates met Paul Allen at school and they became fast friends, sharing a common enthusiasm over computers. Bill graduated from school in 1973 and joined Harvard University according to his parent’s wishes to become a lawyer. But his interest was always in computers. In 1974, he dropped out of the university after discussions with his parents who supported him.

In 1976, Microsoft was set up in partnership with Paul Allen. In 1978,  the company grossed $2.5 million With Bill  as the CEO and chairman of the company ,it surged ahead and by 2014 his wealth was more than $82 billion.

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