This article is about the fellow benefactor of Microsoft. For others of a similar name, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).
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Born William Henry Gates III
October 28, 1955 (age 66)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Education Harvard University (exited)
Occupation
Programming developerinvestorentrepreneur
A long time active 1972–present
Known for Co-organizer of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Title
Co-director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Director and author of Branded Entertainment Network
Director and author of Cascade Investment
Director and prime supporter of TerraPower
Organizer of Breakthrough Energy
Innovation counselor of Microsoft
Board part of Berkshire Hathaway
Microsoft (previous, both)
Spouse(s) Melinda French
(m. 1994; div. 2021)
Children 3
Guardians
Bill Gates Sr. (father)
Mary Maxwell (mother)
Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom (ribbon).svg Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)
Website www.gatesnotes.com
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Organizations
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Magnanimous associations
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationMatch for AfricaThe Giving PledgeBig History ProjectBreakthrough EnergyMission Innovation
Compositions
"Open Letter to Hobbyists"The Road AheadBusiness @ the Speed of ThoughtHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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William Henry Gates III (conceived October 28, 1955) is an American business financier, programming designer, financial backer, creator, and donor. He is a prime supporter of Microsoft, alongside his late beloved companion Paul Allen. During his profession at Microsoft, Gates stood firm on the footholds of director, (CEO), president and boss programming draftsman, while additionally being the biggest individual investor until May 2014.[4] He is viewed as one of the most amazing known business visionaries of the microcomputer upset of the 1970s and 1980s.
Doors was brought up in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It turned into the world's biggest PC programming company.a Gates drove the organization as executive and CEO until venturing down as CEO in January 2000, prevailed by Steve Ballmer, however he remained administrator of the governing body and became boss programming architect. During the last part of the 1990s, he was reprimanded for his business strategies, which have been viewed as hostile to cutthroat. This assessment has been maintained by various court rulings.In June 2008, Gates progressed to low maintenance job at Microsoft and everyday employment at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the private magnanimous establishment he and his then-spouse, Melinda Gates, set up in 2000. He ventured down as administrator of the leading body of Microsoft in February 2014 and accepted another post as innovation counselor to help the recently selected CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to zero in on his humanitarian endeavors including environmental change, worldwide wellbeing and improvement, and education.
Starting around 1987, Gates has been remembered for the Forbes rundown of the world's most affluent people.From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the most extravagant individual on the planet consistently besides from 2010 to 2013. In October 2017, he was outperformed by Amazon author and CEO Jeff Bezos, who had an expected total assets of US$90.6 billion contrasted with Gates' total assets of US$89.9 billion at the time. As of October 2021, Gates had an expected total assets of US$129 billion, making him the fourth-most extravagant individual in the world.
Later in his profession and since passing on everyday activities at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has sought after numerous business and generous undertakings. He is the author and director of a few organizations, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower. He has given sizable measures of cash to different altruistic associations and logical exploration programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, answered to be the world's biggest private charity. Through the establishment, he drove a mid 21st century inoculation crusade which essentially added to the destruction of the wild poliovirus in Africa.[19][20] In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett established The Giving Pledge, by which they and different very rich people promise to give to some degree half of their abundance to philanthropy.
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