"The Gates foundation has given about 22 billion dollars, They gave annually about $1 billion to the poor. Their out reach programs help with education in global health for the underprivileged. The Gates foundation funds a variety of health companies worldwide such as vaccines for vaccines and malaria"(leading American business ) Their educational efforts including Meyer scholarships for colleges and high schools and help support to raise money for computers for schools and for public libraries in the United States and Canada.The funding that goes towards Gates foundation mainly comes from the gates fortune in computer programs or the company known as Microsoft. Most of the money Bill Gates puts in is from his work on Microsoft.
Secondly Bill Gates was a hero because made a successful business known as Microsoft. Gates grew up in Seattle Washington with his dad and mom and two sisters. He made his first programming system when he was only 13 which showed he is …show more content…
Industry analysts had praised Gates for guiding his company on a path of growth that saw its revenue stream increasing by more than 50 percent per year"(encyclopedia). He did this because of his determination to make his company succeed and to make his mark on history. "They credited much of this success to Gates's ability to capitalize early and effectively on industry trends and his willingness to take risks on such fledgling technologies as Microsoft's CD-ROM-based software packages, which became industry standards. Furthermore, Gates had organized the company's structure."(encyclopedia), he structured his company like this to maximize his resources and keep his company above all the others. His new software was made for the soul purpose to make us a technological country and world so we could do things a lot easier than ever before. (August 15, 1988)(Bill gates) his own business was made by him and meant for the whole world. Bill gates is a hero because of all that he has done for society like helping the poor, running a successful business, and being the one who invest the best computer programming