#1 In 1972, he co-founded a company called Traf-O-Data, which analysed local traffic patterns while he was still in high school.
#2 Bill Gates sold his first computer program at the age of 17, a time-tabling system for his high school for $4,200.
#3 Gates and three other high school students were banned from computer usage by Seattle-based CCC (Computer Center Corporation) after they were caught exploiting its operating system bugs to steal computer time.
#4 At the age of 25, he cracked a deal with IBM, the biggest computer organisation at that time, to provide an operating system (MS-DOS) about which he didn't have the faintest idea.
#5 Gates had reportedly once told his university teachers that he aims to become a millionaire by the age 30. And he missed the target by just one year. Gates became a billionaire by the age of 31.
#6 At the age 31, he became the youngest U.S. billionaire, worth $1.25 billion. That record was later broken by Mark Zuckerberg in 2010.
#7 Bill Gates is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
#8 Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND and his net worth as of 2013 is$72.1 billion.
#2 Bill Gates sold his first computer program at the age of 17, a time-tabling system for his high school for $4,200.
#3 Gates and three other high school students were banned from computer usage by Seattle-based CCC (Computer Center Corporation) after they were caught exploiting its operating system bugs to steal computer time.
#4 At the age of 25, he cracked a deal with IBM, the biggest computer organisation at that time, to provide an operating system (MS-DOS) about which he didn't have the faintest idea.
#5 Gates had reportedly once told his university teachers that he aims to become a millionaire by the age 30. And he missed the target by just one year. Gates became a billionaire by the age of 31.
#6 At the age 31, he became the youngest U.S. billionaire, worth $1.25 billion. That record was later broken by Mark Zuckerberg in 2010.
#7 Bill Gates is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
#8 Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND and his net worth as of 2013 is$72.1 billion.
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