William Henry Gates III <!-- (a) "Bill" is excluded; see MOS:HYPOCORISM. (b) Please see the FAQ and previous discussions on the article's talk page; the FAQ records a consensus not to include post-nominals here or the top of the infobox, and WP:POSNOM only says to include them when they are issued by a state or organization "with which the subject has been closely associated" (which does not apply here). --> (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), Gates became then the youngest ever billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. He became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed $100 billion. On the 2024 Forbes list, he was ranked the world's seventh wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $128 billion. Wikipedia
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