American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
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Built Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 and rode the microcomputer boom to become the world's youngest billionaire by 31. Held the "world's richest person" title for 18 of 24 years—a dominance unmatched in modern wealth rankings.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire i…
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