{"id":109,"date":"2007-06-22T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.AchieveMax.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/bill-gates\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:30:05","slug":"bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achievemax.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Little-known Facts about Well-known Leaders &#8211; Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country&#8217;s greatest <a title=\"Leadership Boot Camp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/programs\/top10_seminars\/leadership-seminar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">leaders<\/a>. In this feature, we&#8217;d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Gates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Henry Gates was born on October 28,\u00a01955, in Seattle, Washington, USA.<\/li>\n<li>His father William was a corporate lawyer, and his mother Mary was a schoolteacher.<\/li>\n<li>By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.<\/li>\n<li>Gates scored 1590 on his SAT standardized test. The top score for the test is 1600.<\/li>\n<li>Gates told his university teachers\u00a0he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.<\/li>\n<li>While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft&#8217;s (then called Micro-Soft) first product.<\/li>\n<li>He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.<\/li>\n<li>In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung in a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.<\/li>\n<li>In 2005, Gates was honored with the title Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of England.<\/li>\n<li>As of the March 2007 issue of <em>Forbes<\/em> magazine, Bill Gates has been listed as Number 1 on &#8220;Forbes&#8217; Richest People&#8221; list for\u00a013 years in a row. His current net worth is about $56 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Gates has recently announced that he will be reducing his involvement at Microsoft and will be devoting more time to his charity work.<\/li>\n<li>He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.<\/li>\n<li>Gates is the current owner of the Codex Leicester \u2014 a 72-page collection of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s scientific writings. The writings are a mixture of observations on water properties, astronomy, and rocks and fossils. Gates puts the Codex on public display once a year in a different city around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND; that&#8217;s about $20 million a DAY and $7.8 billion a YEAR!<\/li>\n<li>If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn&#8217;t even bother to pick it up\u00a0because in the\u00a0four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would&#8217;ve already earned it back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country&#8217;s greatest leaders. 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