Billionaire Number One

Name: Bill Gates

Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Born William Henry Gates III. October 28, 1955 age 62. Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Residence Medina, Washington, U.S.

Years active Since 1968 to present

Job Title Co-Founder and Technology Advisor of Microsoft

Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CEO of Cascade Investment

Chairman of Branded Entertainment Network

Chairman of TerraPower

Board member of Microsoft Berkshire Hathaway

Spouse(s) Melinda French. Born in 1994.

Three Children

Parents William H. Gates Sr. & Mary Maxwell Gates

Website gatesnotes.com

REAL TIME NET WORTH $92 Billion

$86 Billion for 2017 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH  

Presents Key Lines:

• With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.

• The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.

• Gates has topped Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans for 24 years in a row.

• He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.

• In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.

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