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Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, celebrated his 60th birth anniversary on
October 28. Bill Gates is
an American business magnate and philanthropist,
an innovator and an inventor. In 1975, Gates
along with Paul Allen, co-founded the world’s
largest PC software company, the Microsoft.
In 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list
as one of the wealthiest people in the world
and remained the same from 1995-2014, except
for 2007-2008 facing some financial
crisis.
Since childhood Gates was a voracious reader.
Gates enrolled at Harvard University to become
a lawyer. However, he spent more of his time
in the computer lab than in class.
In Microsoft, Gates has been
responsible as a chairman, CEO and chief software
architect. He has been the largest individual
shareholder until May 2014. However in February
2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down
as Microsoft's Chairman as he wanted to devote his
time to Philanthropy