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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