Bill Gates - World's Richest College Drop-out to become full-time Philanthropist

Bill Gates, the man who undeniably made an impact on the course of human civilization in the late 20th century, is moving on. Relinquishing a daily role at the world's largest software company, Microsoft, he will jump full-time into running the world's largest charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. How big is the foundation? In 1999, it had assets of over 17 Billion dollars. Today, the foundation's endowment is reportedly worth over $29,000,000,000.00--enough money to eat at Red Lobster every day for the next 43.7 trillion years (a near-eternity of Yuch!) or fund six months of battle operations in Iraq.

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