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His mom, Mary Maxwell Gates, died in 1994, before he became a father; and his dad, William Henry Gates II, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in 2020, only got to know his ...
The co-founder of Microsoft and his fellow philanthropist Warren Buffett are combining their billions through the Gates Foundation he originally set up with his now ex-wife Melinda. Gates says ...
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of June 2022, the pledge has had 236 signatories from 28 countries. [1]
Gates, who had already invested $1 billion of his own money in innovative energy startups, committed a further $1 billion to Breakthrough Energy. [108] In December 2020, he called for the U.S. federal government to create institutes for clean energy research, analogous to the National Institutes of Health. [109]
The Future with Bill Gates, the multibillionaire shares his optimistic vision of a world where scientific innovation rolls back climate change and eradicates deadly diseases while advances in ...
Once a young boy who enjoyed tinkering with computers, Bill Gates now is one of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes, Gates' net worth was at a staggering $128.1 billion as of June...
Standing atop Silicon Valley in the 1990s, Bill Gates still felt his perch to be precarious. “Not until the late-90s did I feel like, ‘Wow, we can even make a few mistakes and still be okay ...
As one of the world’s wealthiest people, billionaire Bill Gates defies the money-grubbing mogul stereotype. A celebrated philanthropist, he has given much of his wealth away.