Bill gates biography bbc full

Bill Gates has built the world's largest software company and created the world's biggest personal fortune.

Now the co-founder of Microsoft - who will step down from his day-to-day role in - concentrates on giving most of his wealth away.

The business acumen and ruthless determination that helped make Mr Gates the most successful Harvard drop-out in history is being focused on tackling loftier issues.

Bill gates biography bbc full

Instead of software code, product development and strategic planning, his priorities will be the challenges posed by extreme poverty, a lack of education and diseases like AIDS and malaria.

Just as he helped launch the era of personal computing and internet communications, Mr Gates is applying his passion for technology, and quite a few billion dollars, to many of the developing world's most pressing social problems.

The career change began in , when he stood down as chief executive of Microsoft, to fo