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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. A seminal figure in the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software corporation Microsoft in 1975 alongside his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), Gates became the youngest billionaire at age 31 in 1987. Forbes ranked him as the world's wealthiest individual for 18 of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including a consecutive 13-year span from 1995 to 2007. He became the first centibillionaire in 1999 when his net worth briefly exceeded $100 billion. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, his net worth is estimated at US$113 billion, positioning him as the thirteenth-richest person globally.

William Henry Gates III

Born: October 28, 1955 (age 69)

Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Education:

Harvard University (did not complete degree)

Occupations:

• Businessman

• Philanthropist

• Computer programmer

• Author

Years Active:

1972–present

Notable For:

Pioneering the personal computer revolution alongside Paul Allen

Co-founding Microsoft and the Gates Foundation

Titles:

• Chair of the Gates Foundation

• Chairman and founder of Cascade Investment

• Chairman and founder of Branded Entertainment Network

• Chairman and co-founder of TerraPower

• Founder of Breakthrough Energy

• Founder of Gates Ventures

• Technology advisor to Microsoft

Spouse:

Melinda French

(married 1994; divorced 2021)

Children:

Parents:

Bill Gates Sr.

Mary Maxwell

Awards:

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005)

Padma Bhushan (2015)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)

Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2020)

Hilal-e-Pakistan (2022)

Contact Email:

[email protected]

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates received private education at Lakeside School, where he formed a friendship with Paul Allen and cultivated his interest in computing. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard College, undertaking courses such as Math 55 and graduate-level computer science classes. However, he left Harvard in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. He served as CEO for 25 years and assumed the roles of president and chairman when Microsoft incorporated in 1981. In 2000, he was succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer and transitioned to the role of chief software architect, which he held until 2008. Gates stepped down as chairman in 2014 and became a technology advisor to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft executives, a position he retains. He resigned from the board in 2020.

Gradually, Gates has diminished his involvement at Microsoft to concentrate on philanthropic endeavors through the Gates Foundation, the largest private charitable organization worldwide. His philanthropic focus includes health, education, and poverty alleviation, with notable efforts to eradicate infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and polio. Gates and his former spouse, Melinda French Gates, co-chaired the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation until 2024, when Melinda resigned following their divorce; the foundation was subsequently renamed, with Gates serving as its sole chair.

Gates is also the founder and chairman of several other enterprises, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. In 2010, alongside Warren Buffett, he co-founded the Giving Pledge, a commitment by billionaires to donate at least half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Recognized by Time magazine in 1999 as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, Gates has received numerous accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded jointly to him and Melinda French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic contributions. He has been featured in several documentary films and published the first of three planned memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025.

LIFE & EDUCATION ;

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington,[1] as the only son of William H. Gates Sr.[a] (1925–2020) and his first wife, Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994).[2] His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish.[3] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and United Way of America. Gates's maternal grandfather J. W. Maxwell was a national bank president. Gates also has an older sister Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix.[4][5] The family lived in the Sand Point area of Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare tornado when Gates was 7.[6]

When Gates was young his parents wanted him to pursue a career in law.[7] During his childhood, his family regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination.[8][9][10]

Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child.[5] The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing".[11]

At age 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside Prep School.[12][13] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers' Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the students.[14] Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and he was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly.[15] After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, Gates and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDPminicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[16][5]

The four students formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money.[5] At the end of the ban, they offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for extra computer time. Rather than using the system remotely via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970 when the company went out of business. The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return. The duo worked diligently in order to have the program ready for their senior year. Towards the end of their junior year, Evans was killed in a mountain climbing accident, which Gates described as one of the saddest days of his life. He then turned to Allen who helped him finish the system for Lakeside.[5]

At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.[17] In 1972, he served as a congressional page in the House of Representatives.[18][19] He was a national merit scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973.[20] He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.[21][22]

He did not stay at Harvard long enough to choose a concentration, but took mathematics (including Math 55) and graduate level computer science courses.[23] While at Harvard, he met fellow student and future Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer stayed and graduated magna cum laude. Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014.

Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems[26] presented in a combinatorics class by professor Harry Lewis. His solution held the record as the fastest version for over 30 years, and its successor is faster by only 2%.[27] His solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.[28]

Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.[29] In 1975, the MITS Altair 8800 was released based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company.[30] Gates dropped out of Harvard that same year. His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.[31] He explained his decision to leave Harvard: "if things hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. I was officially on leave."

MICROSOFT

Gates read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics which demonstrated the Altair 8800, and contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems(MITS) to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.[33] In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demonstration, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration was held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. MITS hired Allen,[34] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with him at MITS in November 1975. Allen named their partnership "Micro-Soft", a combination of "microcomputer" and "software", and their first office was in Albuquerque. The first employee Gates and Allen hired was their high school collaborator Ric Weiland.[34] They dropped the hyphen within a year and officially registered the trade name "Microsoft" with the Secretary of the State of New Mexico on November 26, 1976.[34] Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.

Microsoft's Altair BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked out and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, he wrote An Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90% of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for any professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software.[35] This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.[34] The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979.[33]

Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. As the company grew, he transitioned into a manager role, then an executive.

IBM PARTNERSHIP

IBM, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC,[37] after Gates's mother mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, IBM's then CEO.[2] IBM first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. IBM's representatives also mentioned that they needed an operating system, and Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.[38] IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system. A few weeks later, Gates and Allen proposed using 86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC.[39] Microsoft made a deal with SCP to be the exclusive licensing agent of 86-DOS, and later the full owner. Microsoft employed Paterson to adapt the operating system for the PC[40] and delivered it to IBM as PC DOS for a one-time fee of $50,000.[41]

The contract itself only earned Microsoft a relatively small fee. It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM's adoption of their operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft's transformation from a small business to the leading software company in the world. Gates had not offered to transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM because he believed that other personal computer makers would clone IBM's PC hardware.[41] They did, making the IBM-compatible PC, running DOS, a de facto standard. The sales of MS-DOS (the version of DOS sold to customers other than IBM) made Microsoft a major player in the industry.[42] The press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the IBM PC. PC Magazine asked if Gates was "the man behind the machine?".[37]

Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates the president and chairman of the board, with Paul Allen as vice president and vice chairman. In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity.[33][43] Later in the decade, Gates repaired his relationship with Allen and together the two donated millions to their childhood school Lakeside.[5] They remained friends until Allen's death in October 2018.

WINDOWS ;

Microsoft and Gates launched their first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, in an attempt to fend off competition from Apple's Macintosh GUI, which had captivated consumers with its simplicity and ease of use.[45] In August 1986, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences.[46] The operating system grew out of DOS in an organic fashion over a decade until Windows 95, which hid the DOS prompt by default. Windows XPwas released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO.[47] Windows 8.1 was the last version of the OS released before Gates left the chair of the firm to John W. Thompson on February 5, 2014.

POST MICROSOFT

Microsoft

BILL GATES INVESTMENT

Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft, Gates has continued his philanthropy and works on other projects. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 to become technology advisor at the firm to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.[55][56]

Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in an interview that was published in the March 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In the interview, he provided his perspective on climate change, his charitable activities, various tech companies and people involved in them, and the state of America. In response to a question about his greatest fear when he looks 50 years into the future, Gates stated: "there'll be some really bad things that'll happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them on the scale of, say, a million people that you didn't expect to die from a pandemic, or nuclear or bioterrorism." Gates also identified innovation as the "real driver of progress" and pronounced that "America's way better today than it's ever been."[57] Gates has often expressed concern about the potential harms of superintelligence; in a Reddit "ask me anything", he stated that:

First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned.[58][59][60][61]

In an interview that was held at the TED conference in March 2015, with Baidu co-founder and CEO, Robin Li, Gates said he would "highly recommend" Nick Bostrom's recent work, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.[62] During the conference, Gates warned that the world was not prepared for the next pandemic, a situation that would come to pass in late 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic began.[63] In March 2018, Gates met at his home in Seattle with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia to discuss investment opportunities for Saudi Vision 2030.[64][65] In June 2019, Gates admitted that losing the mobile operating system race to Android was his biggest mistake. He stated that it was within their skill set of being the dominant player, but partially blames the antitrust litigation during the time.[66] That same year, Gates became an advisory board member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.[67]

Gates and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron at COP28 in Dubai on December 1, 2023

In March 2020, Microsoft announced Gates would be leaving his board positions at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate himself to philanthropic endeavors such as climate change, global health and development, and education.[68] The Wall Street Journal reported in May 2021 that Gates stepped down before Microsoft's board finished its investigation into Gates's alleged inappropriate sexual relationship with a Microsoft employee, which an external law firm had begun probing in late 2019.[69]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates has widely been looked at by media outlets as an expert on the issue, despite him not being a public official or having any prior medical training.[70] His foundation did, however, establish the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator in 2020 to hasten the development and evaluation of new and repurposed drugs and biologics to treat patients for COVID-19,[71] and, as of February 2021, Gates expressed that he and Anthony Fauci frequently talk and collaborate on matters including vaccines and other medical innovations to fight the pandemic.

BUSINESS VENTURE AND INVESTMENT;

Gates has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio with stakes in companies in multiple sectors and has participated in several entrepreneurial ventures beyond Microsoft, including:

AutoNation, an automotive retailer which trades on the NYSE and in which Gates has a 16% stake.[73]bgC3 LLC, a think-tank and research company founded by Gates.[74]Canadian National Railway (CN), a Canadian Class I freight railway. As of 2019, Gates is the single largest shareholder of the company.[75]Cascade Investment LLC, a private investment and holding company incorporated in the United States, founded and controlled by Gates and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.[76]Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in the United States with his landholdings owned through Cascade Investment totalling 242,000 acres across 19 states.[77][78] He is the 49th largest private owner of land in the US.[79]Carbon Engineering, a for-profit venture founded by David Keith, which Gates helped fund.[80][81][82] It is also supported by Chevron Corporation and Occidental Petroleum.[83]SCoPEx, Keith's academic venture in "sun-dimming" geoengineering, which Gates provided most of the $12 million for.[84]Corbis (originally named Interactive Home Systems and now known as Branded Entertainment Network), a digital image licensing and rights services company founded and chaired by Gates.[85]EarthNow, a Seattle-based startup company aiming to blanket the Earth with live satellite video coverage. Gates is a large financial backer.[86]Eclipse Aviation, a defunct manufacturer of very light jets. Gates was a major stake-holder early on in the project.[87]Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products. Some of the $396 million Patrick O. Brown collected for his business came from Gates around 2014 to 2017.[88][89][90]Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to the food, energy, healthcare, industrial and hospitality markets. Combined with the shares owned by the Foundation, Gates owns 11.6% of the company. A shareholder agreement in 2012 allowed him to own up to 25% of the company, but this agreement was removed.[91]ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists. Gates participated in a $35 million round of financing along with other investors.[92]TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company co-founded and chaired by Gates, which is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants in an effort to tackle climate change.[93][94][95][96][97]Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a closed fund for wealthy individuals who seek ROI on a 20-year horizon (see next section), which "is funding green start-ups and a host of other low-carbon entrepreneurial projects, including everything from advanced nuclear technology to synthetic breast milk". It was founded by Gates in 2015.[98]Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech startup that received $350 million in venture funding in 2019, in part from Gates's investment firm Cascade Investment.[99]Luminous Computing, a company that develops neuromorphic photonic integrated circuits for AI acceleration.Mologic, a British diagnostic technology company that Gates purchased, along with the Soros Economic Development Fund, "which has developed 10-minute Covid lateral flow tests that it aims to make for as little as $1".

CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY;

Gates considers climate change and global access to energy to be critical, interrelated issues. He has urged governments and the private sector to invest in research and development to make clean, reliable energy cheaper. Gates envisions that a breakthrough innovation in sustainable energy technology could drive down both greenhouse gas emissions and poverty, and bring economic benefits by stabilizing energy prices.[101] In 2011, he said: "If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring that energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I'd pick the energy thing."[102]

In 2015, he wrote about the challenge of transitioning the world's energy system from one based primarily on fossil fuels to one based on sustainable energy sources. Global energy transitions have historically taken decades. He wrote, "I believe we can make this transition faster, both because the pace of innovation is accelerating, and because we have never had such an urgent reason to move from one source of energy to another."[103] This rapid transition, according to Gates, would depend on increased government funding for basic research and financially risky private-sector investment, to enable innovation in diverse areas such as nuclear energy, grid energy storage to facilitate greater use of solar and wind energy, and solar fuels

The European Commission, European Investment Bank and Gates' Breakthrough Energy Catalyst agreed at the 2021 UN Climate Change conference to work together to bring green technologies to market.

Gates spearheaded two initiatives that he announced at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. One was Mission Innovation, in which 20 national governments pledged to double their spending on research and development for carbon-free energy in over five years' time.[101] Another initiative was Breakthrough Energy, a group of investors who agreed to fund high-risk startups in clean energy technologies. Gates, who had already invested $1 billion of his own money in innovative energy startups, committed a further $1 billion to Breakthrough Energy.[104] 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.[105] Gates has also urged rich nations to shift to 100% synthetic beef industries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production.[106]

Gates has been criticized for holding a large stake in Signature Aviation, a company that services emissions-intensive private jets.[107] In 2019, he began to divest from fossil fuels. He does not expect divestment itself to have much practical impact, but says that if his efforts to provide alternatives were to fail, he would not want to personally benefit from an increase in fossil fuel stock prices.[108] After he published his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, parts of the climate activist community criticized Gates's approach as technological solutionism.[109] In 2022, educational streamer Wondrium produced the series "Solving for Zero: The Search for Climate Innovation" inspired by the book.[110]

In June 2021, Gates's company TerraPower and Warren Buffett's PacifiCorpannounced the first sodium nuclear reactor in Wyoming. Wyoming Governor Mike Gordon hailed the project as a step toward carbon-negative nuclear power. Wyoming Senator John Barrasso also said that it could boost the state's once-active uranium mining industry.

Gates supported the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. He tried to convince Joe Manchin to support a climate bill starting in 2019, and especially in the months leading up to the adoption of the bill. The bill aimed to cut the global greenhouse gas emissions in a level similar to "eliminating the annual planet-warming pollution of France and Germany combined" and may help to limit the warming of the planet to 1.5 degrees – the target of the Paris Agreement.[112] He thanked both Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer for their efforts in a guest essay in The New York Times, where he said "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may be the single most important piece of climate legislation in American history" given its potential to spur development of new technologies.[113] Gates gave further insights on climate change in his commencement address at Northern Arizona University on May 6, 2023, where he was bestowed an honorary doctorate.

POLITICAL POSITION ;

In October 2024, The New York Times reported Gates had recently donated $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, a 501(c)(4) organization supporting Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In response to the report, he did not explicitly address the donation or endorse Harris, but said "this election is different".

REGULATION OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES ;

Further information: Bill Gates § Antitrust litigation, and United States v. Microsoft Corp.

In 1998, Gates rejected the need for regulation of the software industry in testimony before the United States Senate.[116] During the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) investigation of Microsoft in the 1990s, Gates was reportedly upset at then Commissioner Dennis Yao for "float[ing] a line of hypothetical questions suggesting possible curbs on Microsoft's growing monopoly power". According to one source:

Gates was vexed. "He started by calling Yao's ideas socialistic," recalls a source familiar with the July 15 meeting, "and as he got angrier and angrier and louder and louder, he got into calling them Communistic".

DONALD FACEBOOK BANNED

After Facebook and Twitter had banned Donald Trump from their platforms on February 18, 2021, as a result of the 2020 United States presidential electionwhich led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Gates said a permanent ban of Trump "would be a shame" and would be an "extreme measure". He warned that it would cause "polarization" if users with different political views divide up among various social networks, and said: "I don't think banning somebody who actually did get a fair number of votes (in the presidential election) – well less than a majority – but I don't think having him off forever would be that good.

PATENT FOR THE COVID 19 VACCINES ;

In April 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates was criticized for suggesting that pharmaceutical companies should hold onto patents for COVID-19 vaccines. The criticism came due to the possibility of this preventing poorer nations from obtaining adequate vaccines. Tara Van Ho of the University of Essex stated, "Gates speaks as if all the lives being lost in India are inevitable but eventually the West will help when in reality the US & UK are holding their feet on the neck of developing states by refusing to break [intellectual property rights] protections. It's disgusting."[118]

Gates is opposed to the TRIPS waiver.[119][120][121] Bloomberg News reported him as saying he argued that Oxford University should not give away the rights to its COVID-19 information, as it had announced, but instead sell it to a single industry partner, as it did.[122] His views on the value of legal monopolies in medicine have been linked to his views on legal monopolies in software.

CRYPTO CURRENCIES TRADING & INVESTMENT (profit or lost) ;

Gates has been critical of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin & BNB smart chain. According to him, cryptocurrencies provide more "valuable output", contribute massively to the society, and pose no danger if the trading is actually done the right way, a lot of people are earning and profiting from crypto trading through gates platform, Gates has been critical of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. who could not survive the potentially high losses. Gates also own his own crypto and lot of people are benefiting from it , any cryptocurrencies himself.especially for smaller investors who could not survive the potentially high losses, gates would refer the people to invest again and never to give up , assist such persons with money to invest again and earn massive funds in return and Gates own two cryptocurrencies of his own and his earning lot from it.

PHILANTHROPY ;

In an interview with the BBC in 2025, Gates stated that his charitable donations have totalled $100 billion, of which $60 billion have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION;

In an interview with the BBC in 2025, Gates stated that his charitable donations have totalled $100 billion, of which $60 billion have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and donated some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create the "William H. Gates Foundation". In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's largest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.