William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian and co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation along with Paul Allen. Most people know him as Bill Gates.
The Billionaire publicly declared the The Daily Show Trevor Noah as one of his favourite comedians and he urges people to give the millennials a chance.
Gates shared an article Trevor had written for TIME magazine titled: “Mock Millennials all you want. Here’s why they give me hope.”
Millennials want to make a difference in the world. One of my favorite comedians @Trevornoah urges us to give them a chance. https://t.co/PMgDCTUWcg
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) January 17, 2018
Trevor Noah grew up in Soweto, South Africa during apartheid. Black people lived in separate areas from white people. They had different rules. They were segregated. This was particularly tough for him, because he grew up in a mixed family, with him being the mixed one.
“My mother is a black woman, Xhosa woman, from South Africa. My father is Swiss from Switzerland and a white man. They got together during apartheid, which was against the law, and they had me. That’s really where our journey began, because we were a family that couldn’t be together. We were a family that was, for all intents and purposes, a crime. Me being born from my mother was me being born a crime.” – Trevor said.