Was Bill Gates born poor?

Absolutely not. Bill Gates was born in upper-upper middle class.  Bill Gates’ father was one of the most successful attorneys in Seattle.

Bill Gates’ family was able to afford to send him to Lakeside, a distinguished private high school — and the first one in the area to give high school students access to computer time in the 1970s.

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Several people have commented that he was raised “upper class” not “upper middle class” — which is the typical designation for successful lawyers — and I’ll go along with that. But in either case, he wasn’t born poor!

I will add, however, that compared to how much money he eventually made, his family was not super-wealthy.)

That being said, his success was due to his hard work and his being smart enough to take advantage of the opportunities given.

Bill Gates Is No Longer The Fourth-Richest Person In The World, After Stock Transfers To Melinda French Gates. I cover the world’s richest. … At $129.6 billion, Bill is now worth slightly less than Facebook FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Forbes, and is now the fifth-richest person in the world.

Most people know three things about Bill Gates: He is one of the richest men in the world. He cofounded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft. He’s an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Microsoft mogul made almost 11 million dollars every day from 2017 to 2018, and around 33 million dollars per day from 2018 and 2019. Bill Gates’ net worth keeps on increasing at significant rates, which then has a direct effect on his income per day which is constantly expanding.