Bill Gates Facts

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

Bill Gates created a traffic data processing system for Seattle when he was only 15! Along with Paul Allen, he founded Traf-O-Data in the early 1970s to help cities analyze traffic patterns.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.

As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!

Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.

Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and later said it was 90 days from going bankrupt. He struck a deal with Apple's biggest rival - Microsoft - to survive: they invested $150 million in non-voting preferred Apple stock. When Jobs announced it at Macworld Boston, Bill Gates appeared live via satellite on a giant screen above the stage. The crowd booed. Jobs later called it his worst staging mistake ever.