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Who is 2nd ceo of microsoft?
Steve Ballmer
Satya Nadella
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Bill Gates
比尔盖茨
William Henry Gates III KBE (born October 28, 1955), is an American businessman and the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is the third-richest person in the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in net worth as of January 2021.
威廉·亨利·盖茨三世(1955年10月28日-)，美国企业家，微软公司的联合创始人和董事长。截至2021年1月，他的净资产排名世界第三，仅次于杰夫·贝佐斯和埃隆·马斯克。
Early life
早期生活
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, U.S. He has British and German ancestry. His father William H. Gates, Sr. was a lawyer. His mother Mary Maxwell Gates served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer. At the age of 13, Bill went to Lakeside High School.
威廉·亨利·盖茨三世于1955年10月28日出生在美国华盛顿州西雅图市的瑞典医疗中心。他有英国和德国血统。他的父亲老威廉·盖茨是一位律师。他的母亲玛丽·麦克斯韦·盖茨(Mary Maxwell Gates)曾担任第一洲际银行系统(First Interstate Banc System)和联合之路(United Way)的董事会成员。他的父母想让他成为一名律师。13岁的时候，比尔上了湖滨中学。
College career and the Founding of Microsoft
大学生涯与微软的创立
He was a freshman at Harvard University in 1973. He left Harvard to make software. Bill Gates saw an opportunity to transform the personal computer, which was expensive and difficult to use. He decided that computers could be made less expensive and easier to use. Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gates then went on to develop the Windows operating system, which at first wasn’t well received but with time became the most used operating system in the world.
1973年，他进入哈佛大学读书。不久，他离开哈佛去开发软件。当时的个人电脑非常昂贵且操作不便，比尔·盖茨看到了这个机会。他认为电脑可以做得更便宜，更易使用。1975年，盖茨和保罗·艾伦在新墨西哥州的阿尔伯克基市创立了微软。之后，盖茨继续开发Windows操作系统，该系统起初并不受欢迎，但随着时间的推移，它成为了世界上使用最多的操作系统。
Retirement, philanthropy and charity work
退休、慈善和公益事业
In 2006, Gates announced he was going to quit his job at Microsoft. This was so he could do more charity work with his wife, Melinda. Their charity is called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates’ philanthropy projects have included vaccination of children in sub-Saharan Africa, scholarship programs in the United States, and a mission to help organize other billionaires to redistribute their wealth. He likes to give money and support to human rights, education and technological innovation.
2006年，盖茨宣布他将辞去在微软的工作。这样他就可以和妻子梅林达一起做更多的慈善工作。他们的慈善机构被称为比尔和梅林达·盖茨基金会。盖茨的慈善项目包括为撒哈拉以南非洲的儿童接种疫苗，在美国设立奖学金项目，以及帮助组织其他亿万富翁重新分配财富的使命。他喜欢为人权、教育和技术创新提供资金和支持。
Gates stepped down from his CEO position in Microsoft in 1998 and Steve Ballmer did the job instead. On June 16, 2007, Microsoft said that Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, will come in on a day-to-day schedule to continue working with his charity organization full-time for the years to come. On 2014, Satya Nadella became the new CEO of Microsoft and Bill Gates came back as the Chief Technology Adviser.
He was awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 for his services to philanthropy and charity. As an American citizen, he cannot be called “Sir Bill Gates”, but can use the letters “KBE” after his name.
1998年，盖茨从微软首席执行官的位置上退下来，由史蒂夫·鲍尔默接任。2007年6月16日，微软宣布，未来几年，微软董事长盖茨将会按照日常日程来全职为他的慈善组织工作。2014年，萨蒂亚·纳德拉(Satya Nadella)成为微软的新任首席执行官，比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)回归担任首席技术顾问。
2005年，由于他对慈善事业的贡献，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予他荣誉爵士头衔。作为美国公民，他不能被称为“比尔·盖茨爵士”，但可以在他的名字后面加上“KBE”这两个字母。
Net worth
资产净值
In 1986, Gates took Microsoft public. The company’s stock was worth $520 million. Gates owned 45 percent of the stock himself, which was worth $234 million. The company continued its rapid growth and the stock price soared. At one point, Gates’ stock was worth over $100 billion. This made him the richest man in the world, until October 2017, when Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos became even richer than him.
He was the richest man in the world. In October 2017, his net worth was surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Bezos had an estimated net worth of US$90.6 billion compared to Gates’s net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time. As of January 2021, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$163 billion, making him the third-richest person in the world. And now, he is the third-richest person in the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in net worth as of January 2021.
1986年，盖茨带领微软公司上市。该公司的股票价值5.2亿美元。盖茨本人拥有45%的股份，价值2.34亿美元。公司继续快速增长，股价飙升。盖茨的股票一度价值超过1000亿美元。这让他成为了世界上最富有的人，直到2017年10月，亚马逊创始人兼首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯比他更富有。
他是世界上最富有的人。2017年10月，他的净资产被亚马逊创始人兼首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯超越。贝佐斯的净资产估计为906亿美元，而盖茨当时的净资产为899亿美元。截至2021年1月，盖茨的净资产估计为1630亿美元，使他成为世界第三大富豪。截至2021年1月，他的净资产排名世界第三，仅次于杰夫·贝佐斯和埃隆·马斯克。