Since 1987, Bill Gates has been on the list of Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. Bill was the richest person in the world every year from 1996 to 2017 except from 2010 to 2013.
On January 1, 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French. The wedding ceremony took place on the Hawaiian Island of Lanai. They met in 1987 after Melinda started working at Microsoft.
Bill & Melinda has a foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. It is a nonprofit foundation fighting poverty.
Melinda French
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former computer scientist and general manager at Microsoft born on August 15, 1964 Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Melinda and Bill share three children: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. The residence of the Bill Family is an earth-sheltered mansion on the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington.
His kids will get only a fraction of the wealth of Bill Gates. It is believed that each one of them will get $10 million. "Leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them," said Bill.
There is a three-part documentary on Netflix called Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. The documentary is all about the life of Bill Gates and it is directed by Davis Guggenheim.
You might be surprised to know that Bill was arrested in 1977 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was arrested for the violation of traffic rules and later got bailed by American businessman, Paul Allen.