The World's Billionaires 2017-FORBES

#1 NEXT

Bill Gates
Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 11/26/17
$89.4 B
2017 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/20/17
$86 B
With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.
The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.
Gates has topped Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans for 24 years in a row.
He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.
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STATS
AGE
62

SOURCE OF WEALTH
Microsoft, Self Made
SELF-MADE SCORE
8

RESIDENCE
Medina, Washington
CITIZENSHIP
United States

MARITAL STATUS
Married
CHILDREN
3
EDUCATION
Drop Out, Harvard University
ON FORBES LISTS
#1
Forbes 400
2017
#1
Richest In Tech
2017
The Richest Person In Every State
2017
#1
Billionaires
2017
#1 United States
#7
Powerful People
2016
The Richest Person In America’s 50 Largest Cities
2016
DID YOU KNOW...
When Bill Gates was a kid, he spent so much time reading that his parents finally forbid him to bring books to the dinner table.
Gates took a break from classes his senior year in high school to do programming with his friend Paul Allen at a power plant in North Bonneville, Washington.