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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft

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s an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[3][4][5] Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world's largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[6] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third;[1] in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the world's second wealthiest person.[7][8] According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates became the world's richest person again in May 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007. He held the position until Carlos Slim reclaimed it in July 2014.[8][9] As of September 2014, he is the second richest person in the world.[1]

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