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He stepped down as chairman of the board in 2014 and became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds. He served as its CEO for the next 25 years and also became president and chairman of the board when the company was incorporated in 1981. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School, where he befriended Allen and developed his computing interests. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Forbes magazine ranked him as the world’s wealthiest person in their The World’s Billionaires list for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. In 2010 Bill Gates and Warren Buffett founded The Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires would pledge to give away at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. Like their father, the three Gates children attended Seattle’s elite Lakeside School, a private high school that has been recognized for excellence in STEM subjects \u2014 and that received a $40 million donation from Bill Gates in 2005 to build its financial aid fund.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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In July 2022 he reiterated the commitment he had made by starting the Giving Pledge campaign by announcing on his Twitter channel he planned to give ‚virtually all‘ his wealth to charity and eventually ‚move off of the list of the world’s richest people‘. In 2025 Bill Gates said in an interview with Raj Shammi that his children will inherit less than 1% of his wealth. Gates, through his foundation, also donated $20 million to the Carnegie Mellon University for a new building to be named Gates Center for Computer Science which opened in 2009. 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. 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. Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in an interview that was published in the March 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Following Microsoft’s initial public offering http:\/\/stormgrad.ru\/?p=295<\/a> in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world’s then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 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“. According to him, cryptocurrencies provide no „valuable output“, contribute nothing to society, and pose a danger especially for smaller investors who could not survive the potentially high losses. In October 2024, The New York Times reported Gates had recently donated $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, https:\/\/stroihouse.com\/construction\/page\/6<\/a> a 501(c)(4) organization supporting Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign. His view is that investing in new technologies is the most effective way to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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