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Name
Bill Gates
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Net worth
💰 $117.6B
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Born
October 28, 1955 (age 68) |
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Education
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Source
Microsoft
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Industry
Technology
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When Gates was a kid, he spent so much time reading that his parents finally forbade him from bringing books to the dinner table. Gates took a break from classes his senior year in high school to do programming with his friend Paul Allen at a power plant in North Bonneville, Washington.
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Jeff Bezos
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Net worth
💰 $151.5B
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Born
January 12, 1964 (age 59) |
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Education
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Amazon
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Industry
Technology
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Growing up, Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors. Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000.