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billionaires the world

Capitalism is taking some lumps—and not   simply   within the   headlines.   for less than   the second year   in an exceedingly   decade,   each   the amount   of billionaires and their total wealth shrank, proving that even the wealthiest   aren't   resistant to   economic forces and weak stock markets. By our latest count there   ar   two ,153 billionaires,   fifty five fewer than a year   agone . Of those, a record 994, or 46%,   ar   poorer (relatively speaking) than they were last year. In total, the ultra-rich   ar   price   $8.7 trillion, down $400 billion from 2018. Altogether   11 November   of last year’s list members, or 247   individuals ,   born   out of the ranks,   the foremost   since 2009 at   the peak   of   t he world   money   crisis.

Bill Gates biography

William H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996, and employs more than 20,000 people in 48 countries. Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and supp