Rank #506
Charles Simonyi
Net worth $7.6B
Microsoft · United States
- Born
- Sep 10, 1948
- Age
- 77
- Source
- Microsoft
- Residence
- Medina, Washington
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Doctorate, Stanford University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley
Net worth over time
Biography
- Early Microsoft employee Charles Simonyi is the man behind some of the company's most successful software, including Word and Excel.
- The developer has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford and worked on one of the first personal computers at Xerox.
- He joined Microsoft, then a fledgling firm, as employee No. 40 in 1981 and spent two decades in application development.
- A native of Hungary, he left Microsoft in 2002 and founded Intentional Software, which develops platforms for productivity apps.
- Microsoft acquired Intentional Software in 2017 for an undisclosed price, bringing Simonyi back to the Redmond, Washington giant.
- Simonyi paid $60 million to jet to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket in 2007 and 2009, making him the first tourist to have visited space twice.
- Simonyi worked as a night watchman in a computer lab as a teenager, which allowed him to use the machines after everyone had left.
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