Bill Gates has been one of the 3 richest people in the world for the past several years. And it is all thanks to Microsoft.
He is no longer CEO of the company he founded, but he still gets a lot of money from there. And it is all because Microsoft is widely regarded as a top 10 most recognizable company in the world.
There is almost no person alive that hasn’t heard of Microsoft. Even developing countries have heard of Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, if nothing more.
An IT company, Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world, and as of 2016, it is the world’s largest software maker by revenue.
Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has gone a long way from developing and selling BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
How Gates founded Microsoft and made it one of the biggest companies worldwide? This documentary explains.