CyberNotes: Little Known Facts about Bill Gates

CyberNotes
Microsoft Monday


Bill Gates is known as the World’s richest man (although he was recently de-throned), yet most people really don’t know a whole lot about the name and face behind Microsoft. Today’s Microsoft Monday is all about Bill and some little known facts about him. We’ve also included a photo that shows the Microsoft team in 1978, and details about where everybody is now. I’m sure Gates wasn’t expecting his team would eventually leave and get into jobs like cattle ranching or creating the Cabbage Patch Doll, but they did!

Little Known Facts about Bill Gates

  • William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
  • His SAT score was 1590. The top score for the test is 1600.
  • By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
  • Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30.  He became a billionaire at age 31.
  • While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first product.
  • 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.
  • In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tungin a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China.  The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
  • He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
  • Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year!
  • If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would’ve already earned it back.

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Where are they now?

This photo shows the early team that made up Microsoft in 1978. We know Bill stuck around, but what happened to the others? Everybody you see pictured except Gates, eventually left Microsoft (although Paul Allen is still a senior strategy advisor) .

Microsoft team 1978

  • Pictured above is Bob O’Rear who was Microsoft’s Chief mathematician. He left Microsoft in 1993 and then went on to be a cattle rancher.
  • Another example is Bob Greenberg who was a programmer. When he left Microsoft in 1981, he went on to help develop Cabbage Patch dolls!
  • Marla Wood was a bookkeeper and left Microsoft in 1980 and then sued them for sex discrimination. Now she describes herself as a “professional volunteer.”
  • Jim Lane was a project manager and left Microsoft in 1985, and eventually went on to own his own software company.

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August 20th, 2007 Written by
  1. Phillip BlackAugust 20, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Wow……Just wow some great fact wouldn’t mide if you guy did this more often! 8O

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  2. RyanAuthorAugust 20, 2007 at 2:39 pm
    Phillip Black wrote:
    Wow……Just wow some great fact wouldn’t mide if you guy did this more often! 8O

    This kind of stuff is actually pretty interesting, and hopefully we’ll come up with more great ideas to do in the future.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2008 at 10:22 am

    who replaced him as worlds richest man :?:

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  5. AshleyAuthorFebruary 28, 2008 at 4:43 pm
    Anonymous wrote:
    who replaced him as worlds richest man :?: :?:

    The list is constantly changing, but in November, the list looked like this:
    1. Mukesh Ambani – $63.2 Billion
    2. Carlos Slim Helu – $62.2993 billion
    3. William Gates – $62.29 Billion

    They’re all essentially tied.

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  6. willyMarch 7, 2008 at 10:18 am

    8O wow this helped my wax museum project

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  8. AnonymousMarch 13, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    loved the thousand dollar bill fact. haha. :lol:

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  9. AnonymousMarch 28, 2008 at 7:52 am

    I think as at March 2008,Warren Buffet was the richest followed by Bill

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  10. CHECK THIS OUTApril 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    bill gates is so COOL! :D
    i’m doing a report on him at my school
    i learned so many different things about him
    HE ROCK THE ROOF!!!!!! 8) 8)

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  12. AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    im doing a report on him as well and got a whole notecard of info here thx dues and dudettes lol

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  13. AnonymousMay 8, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Woah..So much information for my project! Thanks to whoever wrote this! :D

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  14. AnonymousMay 9, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    thanks…it helped on my project!!!

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  15. MinervaMay 17, 2008 at 2:02 am

    ALRIGHT! Now where was the interesting facts? i mean the only one that was real interesting was the thousand dollar bill fact! What I think is interesting obviously varies from YOURS see a quote like this is interesting…Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
    Bill Gates
    But if you want to keep telling the world what wikipedia and other sites are already saying thats your choice… by the way you didn’t help my project. :x

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  16. AshleyAuthorMay 19, 2008 at 1:40 pm
    Minerva wrote:
    ALRIGHT! Now where was the interesting facts? i mean the only one that was real interesting was the thousand dollar bill fact! What I think is interesting obviously varies from YOURS see a quote like this is interesting…Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
    Bill Gates
    But if you want to keep telling the world what wikipedia and other sites are already saying thats your choice… by the way you didn’t help my project. :x

    Thanks for the feedback Minerva. I’m sorry you didn’t find this interesting, but others did and that’s why we write it. We know that it’s impossible to please everybody, but we do our best.

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  17. Karen BakerJune 10, 2008 at 3:06 am

    you say “pictured above”… but who do you mean when you say pictured above? the guy on the bottom right, in the middle, top left?

    Is Bill Gates the very young looking fellow on the bottom left? That is the only one that vaguely looks like him, but even then i am not altogether sure…,

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  18. RyanAuthorJune 10, 2008 at 11:37 am
    Karen Baker wrote:
    Is Bill Gates the very young looking fellow on the bottom left? That is the only one that vaguely looks like him, but even then i am not altogether sure…,

    Yup, you got it!

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  19. ruchiAugust 15, 2008 at 9:12 am

    i have to prepare a presentation on him…dis info really has benefited me!! :D

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  20. AriAugust 28, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks, this has come in handy to do a report on something I missed last week. ^_^ Thank you for posting this! :D

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  21. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2008 at 6:01 am

    i’m doing a report on him as well for my school

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  22. Peter RaineSeptember 19, 2008 at 6:07 am

    this guy is really amazing

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    • AnonymousApril 15, 2010 at 9:29 am

      bill gates is an interesting man, as in ppl said he would never amount too anything but yet look what he achieved… he is a billionare what i have always dreamed of bn… look what you can do if you put your mind too it..

  23. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2008 at 11:22 am

    im also doing a report on him for school and knew he would be that rich

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  24. bill gatesOctober 27, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    not even half of that is true! :evil:

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  25. dizzleNovember 17, 2008 at 11:54 am

    8) I just wanted to say that I appresate your time doing this….
    It really helped me with my speech that I’m giving on the twenty-fourth….

    thanks again….
    :-)

    Dizzle

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  26. amberNovember 21, 2008 at 7:42 am

    bill gates is the bomb :!: :mrgreen:

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  27. amberNovember 21, 2008 at 7:47 am

    i love u for inventing the game systems i may be a girl but i love to play games 8) :P ;) :lol:

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  28. amberNovember 21, 2008 at 7:50 am

    u are hopefuly helping my project lets hope so im in 7th grade so i have a project on bill gates

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  29. AnonymousNovember 23, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    ;) cool!
    but which one is he in the picture?
    you might have said..
    But Im not obsevant :?

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  30. AnonymousDecember 22, 2008 at 7:24 am

    doing a stupid report :? thanks for the help good web site its helping a lot

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  31. MandyJanuary 12, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Bill Gates Rrrrrrrrrrrocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:roll:I am doing a report in school about him, I have learned so much!

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  33. jhgjygjkuyFebruary 17, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    dude thats going to help a lot

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  34. Dr. DannyFebruary 27, 2009 at 10:53 am

    Wow i wouldnt mind being him for a day.. :P

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  35. AnonymousMarch 8, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    im using this 4 my wax musiem!!!:lol:

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  36. logan12March 9, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    when i printed part of this page it started printed a billion pages for no reason?

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  37. logan12March 9, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    this helped me on my state report in school :!: :D :D :D

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  38. AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    this is such a great sorce for my sidebar in my book report thanks for adding it! :D :idea:

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  39. HaleyMarch 27, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Which of the people in the photo at the bottom is Bill?
    I’m doing a project on him in school. I want to use this picture but I’m not quite sure which one is him?!?
    HelP! (: :lol:

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  40. AnonymousApril 4, 2009 at 12:48 am

    wow this was great i am doing a project on bill gates and this was so helpful!
    thanks!!!!
    p.s. this was actually good ciz this had more fact that all the other websites didnt have :)

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  41. AnonymousApril 17, 2009 at 2:02 am

    didnt he get like sued or something?
    just adding my 2 cents :oops:

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  42. gamelinx101April 20, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    :roll: This really helped My Wax Museum Project :D

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  43. rebeccaApril 23, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    thanks this help me with my project :D

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  44. AnonymousApril 27, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    i need some faces about bill gates

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  45. Danny JangApril 29, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    we just got divoreced! I’m back on the market!!

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  47. Song DawsonApril 29, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    me and jonathon just got married we love each other i was having an afair with him while i was sexing up danny

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  48. Gordan lauApril 29, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    NIcky come on me baby! givE me some action on my laps!!

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  49. Gordon JangApril 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    we got married

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  50. Gordan lauApril 29, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Oh yeh nicky and song we had some fun yesterday havent we??? little orgy!1

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  51. Nicky LeeApril 30, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    Oh yes lets invite David as well!! im sure he will like it as well!! Lol

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  52. Song KhooApril 30, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    OH yeh i could do that! then it will be a chinatown fest. threesome orgy in my ass in my bushes

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  53. Nicky LeeApril 30, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Hmmmmmm i think my dick will be too small for songs anus!

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  54. Song KhooApril 30, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    I LIKE Lysea! i wanna do her tonight. any1 want to join in??

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  55. Nicky LeeApril 30, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    Really song? thats great but do you know who i like? Emily Bennet!! and i also planned to do her today as well! in your bushes!

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  56. Gordan LauApril 30, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    Nah you guys are gay, I LIKe boys especially david!

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  57. Danny LeeMay 3, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Hey sexy brothers lets haev sex tonight

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  58. AnonymousMay 5, 2009 at 2:46 am

    i have spent my time in a useful way, its really a good article also bring us lot more like this and about bill gates thank you

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  59. amandaSeptember 21, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    thx very intersting my project will get an a!!!

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  60. dannySeptember 27, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    WOW AMAZING FACTS hes amazing:)
    i love the 1000 dollar bill fact thats ace

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  61. AnonymousNovember 10, 2009 at 8:09 am

    stop talking about sex!

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  62. munchmunchmanDecember 1, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Hello people, can someone please tell me who wrote this website???

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  63. zachDecember 10, 2009 at 9:44 am

    your a rich lucky man

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  64. zachDecember 10, 2009 at 9:44 am

    you all leaving comments have no life

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  65. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2010 at 7:21 am

    does this mean you have no life? i thought so

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  67. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    I LOVE YOU ALL, NOT U, YOU!

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  68. AnonymousMarch 10, 2010 at 9:32 pm

    I have been in his house before.

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  69. Tom atoMarch 14, 2010 at 9:03 am

    u r sick people

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  70. AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    yes bill is now the richest man in the world agian and i wish i was him dont we all and wow his is a run on scentance and omg im runing out of breath *gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasp* phew

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    • NichFebruary 22, 2011 at 4:16 am

      Dude i just wanna let you know that i don’t think you wish to be bill gates.. Consider the fact of that he have to be guarded every second by atleast 3-4 bodyguards (maybe more) so the only reason you really wanna be him is because you think money is the way to solve you’r problems…

  71. SafyaanMay 5, 2010 at 7:57 am

    i love bill gates he is the best bill gates if you are reading this lend me sum money plz

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  72. BOBBYMay 25, 2010 at 12:16 am

    I LIKE HIM! STOP IT@

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  73. connorAugust 18, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    hes flipping rich!!!

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  74. AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 1:22 am

    He is great man world ever had….im his huge fan. I LOVE BILL GATES!!!!!

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    • AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 1:12 pm

      sometimes i wonder where bill got his mind,
      his work is extra ordinary…. do you ever….
      think of doing something similar to what he did?…

  75. Warren BuffetSeptember 30, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Did you know that I had a business meeting with him for 30 minutes but,it lasted for 8 hours.

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  76. asdfMarch 2, 2011 at 7:45 am

    he makes more than 2000 a second not 250

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  77. AnonymousMarch 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

    I applaud to those who admire and respect Bill Gates because not only does it prove the human maturity but it also demonstrates that respectful individuals still exist. I truly feel sorry for those who write repulsive comments to receive attention because that only shows how much of a looser you really are!
    Really! You need that kind of attention to feel important and so you go ahead criticizing people or placing filthy comments which are immature! I believe it is more than clear that I posses of such strong admiration for Bill gates, because of him today we are more organized individuals! Thanks to him we are able to complete the projects or reports of whom you all speak of. I am thankful we have such a generous, intellectual, and investigative man in our society! Thank you Bill Gates……..

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  78. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    I love the fact about the $1000 bill! To be honest, he’s pretty careless if he did leave it on the floor O_O

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  80. SkySeptember 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Wow… This guy is like,awesome! Doing a Technology Report on him. This helped me alot (:

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  81. vansOctober 29, 2011 at 10:13 am

    bill gates is indeed an inspiration to the world. he is far richer than many countries in the world. by the way, i will like to know if he believes in God. does he belomg to any particular religion

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  82. SCREW_YOUNovember 11, 2011 at 11:39 am

    yeah, this helped a lot on my project. its nto really a project, just a term paper

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  83. AnonymousMarch 16, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    this guy is so rich i mean $250 a second

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