Facts you should know about Bill Gates
Most people know three things about Bill Gates: He's the richest man in the world. He cofounded one of the most successful tech companies of all time: Microsoft. He's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But despite his philanthropic efforts and online presence , there are a lot of things about Gates you probably didn't know. As a teen at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the machine. CBS/YouTube Source: Science Museum Once his school discovered Gates' coding abilities, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes. Gates slyly altered the code so that he was placed in classes with a "disproportionate number of interesting girls." Doug Wilson/CORBIS Source: Science Museum Also during his teenage years, Gates read t
