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William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his own words with the memoir Source Code, being released on Feb. 4 "My parents and early friends put me in a position to have a ...
In 2000, she and Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization. [3] The couple, who have three children together, divorced in 2021. In 2024, she resigned from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue philanthropy independently, having received $12.5 billion for charitable work as ...
Bill Gates asked her out in a parking lot. Business mogul Bill Gates and ex-wife Melinda Gates donated $100 million to the program for Appropriate Technology in Health on Dec. 2, 1998, at the ...
Two of Gates' kids have graduated from Lakeside School and his youngest child is currently enrolled there. The annual cost to attend Lakeside School is $33,280 a student for the 2017-2018 school year.
In 1983, Gates tried to buy Allen out at $5 per share, but Allen refused and left the company with his shares intact; this made him a billionaire when Microsoft went public. [41] [42] Gates later repaired his relationship with Allen, and the two men donated $2.2 million to their childhood school Lakeside in 1986. [26]
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have officially become grandparents.. The former couple's 26-year-old daughter Jennifer Gates and her husband, Nayel Nassar, announced the arrival of their ...