The Young Chronicle: For 4th Graders November 4th, 2015 | Page 2

Paris attack 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