Bill Gates - Co-Founder, Microsoft

Bill Gates

The amount of wealth: $ 772 million



Bill Gates - Co-Founder, Microsoft

Before becoming the world's richest man, Bill Gates was a failed entrepreneur. Later on he became the world's richest person, and his luxury home Xanadu 2.0 (The 'Bill Gates House'), which is a computer controlled and accurate temperature control, music and lights are also noticeable.

Failure:

Initially, the company named Traff-O-Data was Bill Gates, who created reports of traffic counter and traffic engineers. Thus, this organization used to help traffic. Originally named Traffic-Data-8008, this app could read traffic tape and process data. They started selling these products within the country but they failed, because the machine could not always work properly.

Then success:

Paul Allen, associate with Bill Gates, said although Traffic-data did not work well, its experience helped him to build Microsoft in a few years.

In this way, Microsoft became one of the largest personal computer operators in the world.