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2. Bill Gates - Wikipedia

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   Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief ...

3. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic - Wikipedia

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   Paul Allen. v. t. e. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic is a 2022 book by Bill Gates. In it, Gates details the COVID-19 pandemic and how to prevent another pandemic, including proposing a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion. [1] [2]

4. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Wikipedia

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   – Bill Gates, from page 14 of his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021). The book's five parts. The book is organized into five parts. In part one (chapter 1), Gates explains why the world must completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions ("getting to zero"), rather than simply reducing them. In part two (chapter 2) he discusses the ...

5. Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft co-founder, dies at 94 - AOL

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   SEATTLE (AP) — William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Gates died peacefully Monday at his beach home in ...

6. Bill Gates says he now owns 1 out of every 4000 acres ... - AOL

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   Sixteen years ago, Bill Gates moved on from his role at Microsoft, the company he founded, to focus on philanthropic efforts with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, providing billions of ...

7. The Giving Pledge - Wikipedia

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   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] Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, and as of 2023 ...

8. Here's Why Bill Gates Was So Much Richer Than Steve Jobs - AOL

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   Jobs' 11% stake in Apple was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $130 million at the time. And, for the record, this was considerably less than the 26% stake that he emerged with after the ...

9. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]