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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 ...
Bill Gates. Bill Gates, tech mogul and philanthropist, who has a net worth of $109 billion, as of mid-February, certainly isn’t doing poorly these days, but back before the glory days of ...
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 ...
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]
Bill Gates boasts a net worth of $78.9 billion. Microsoft's co-founder also has a 66,000-square-foot lakeside house in Washington state — complete with a pool that has its own underwater ...
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]
He stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2000 to establish the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his then-wife, aiming to give away “lots of money to save lots of lives”, yet he remains one ...
According to Forbes' World's Billionaire List, Bill Gates is the seventh wealthiest person on the planet. He made his money in technology and became the world's youngest self-made billionaire (at ...