Besides his passion for computers and software, which everybody is aware of, Bill Gates was interested in biotechnology. He invested money in several companies. It is also the founder of Corbis, one of the largest developers in the world of visual information resources, a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography for the public and private collections across the world.
Bill Gates has invested with a cell phone pioneer, Craig McCaw, in Teledestic, working with an ambitious plan to use hundreds of satellites for telecommunications services. Together with his wife, Melinda, he started a foundation with more than 21 billion dollars of philanthropic support offered worldwide for health and education. He is an avid reader and likes to play golf and bridge.
And now, some interesting curiosities about Bill Gates and his money. Bill Gates earns or better said earned, when he was active, $ 250 every second, which means about 20 million dollars a day and about 7.8 billion dollars a year. One may say that if he dropped a thousand dollars, it would have been better for him not even to bother to raise the money because in four seconds he had that money and he would not have to move a muscle for it.
Other calculations say that he can donate U.S. $ 15 to everyone on Earth, and he would still remain with 5 million dollars in his pocket. If Bill Gates were a country, then it would rank in the top 37 richest countries in the world. If you could change all Bill Gates’ money by $ 1, you could build a long way, 14 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. And if you will build a road, working around the clock, for 1400 years, you will need a total of 713 Boeing 747 to carry all that money.
And finally: if the users of Windows systems would claim one dollar for every time their computers blocked when running Windows, Bill Gates will be broke in three years.
