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9. Bill Gates

In 1975, Bill Gates founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen. Gates dropped out of Harvard to focus on the software company and by 1978, it had made $1 million. Gates has been the world's richest person in several different years and today has a net worth of $100-108.8 billion. He is well-known for his philanthropic efforts. In fact, Gates stepped down from Microsoft in 2020 after 45 years in order to focus his efforts on climate change initiatives.

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