Seattle, located in the U.S. state of Washington (Washington State), is situated on the Pacific coast of the northwestern United States, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, bordered by the Olympic Mountains to the west and Lake Washington to the east, and is about 174 kilometers from the border between Canada and the United States. Seattle was founded on December 2, 1869 and got its name from Chief Seattle. Seattle under the jurisdiction of Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane, Bellevue, Auburn, Kent and other districts. Seattle has extensive rivers, forests and lakes, and a temperate maritime climate.
Seattle is a leader in advanced technologies such as aerospace, computer software, bioinformatics, genetic science, telemedicine, electronic devices, medical equipment, and environmental engineering. Seattle is a center for the performing arts. The Seattle Symphony Orchestra is hundreds of years old and has one of the most published recordings in the world; Seattle is also very diverse and active in popular and contemporary music. Seattle is considered to be the birthplace of trash music and the birthplace of greasepaint rock. The region is home to many famous people, such as Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.
On December 28, 1955, William Henry Gates III, the official name of Bill Gates, was born in Seattle, Washington, on the west coast of the United States. Gates' grandmother gave him the nickname "Trey", which means "three dots" in poker. His father, William Henry Gates, Sr., was a prominent local attorney; his late mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, was a trustee of the University of Washington, a director of the banking system, and president of United Way International; and his maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Washington. His maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was president of the National Bank. Bill grew up with two sisters.
Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13, enrolled at Harvard at age 18, dropped out of Harvard a year later, and founded Microsoft in 1975 with his best friend, Paul Allen, who served as Microsoft's chairman, CEO, and chief software designer.
Bill Gates was the richest person on Forbes' list of the world's richest people for 13 consecutive years from 1995-2007, and the richest person on Forbes' list of America's richest people for 20 consecutive years.
In 2000, Bill Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2008 Bill Gates announced that he would donate $58 billion of his personal fortune to charitable foundations, and in 2014 Bill Gates stepped down as chairman and knocked off Carlos Slim to return to the world's richest man.
2015 U.S. local time on September 29, Forbes released the list of the top 400 U.S. billionaires show that Microsoft founder Gates with $ 76 billion net worth, the 22nd consecutive year at the top of the list.
On March 1, 2016, Forbes released the latest edition of the list of the world's rich, although Bill Gates' personal wealth is $4.2 billion less than in 2015, but he still tops the list for the third consecutive year this time with a personal wealth of $75 billion.
October 2016, Forbes released the "400 Richest People in the United States ", Bill Gates topped the list for the 23rd year with assets of $81 billion.