17 surprising facts about Bill Gates

Dave Smith – Sr. Tech Writer

Most people know three things about Bill Gates:

1. He’s the richest man in the world.
2. He co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time (Microsoft).
3. He’s an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

As a teen at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the computer.

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