Was No. 1 on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for 12 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007. As of 2022, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued $71.4 billion in grant payments to charitable causes. Microsoft is the world’s largest software ...

Bill Gates downplays climate catastrophe, wolves are blamed – or credited – for ecosystem repair, and China’s energy surge defies Western narratives.

Phoebe Gates launched her business without her dad’s help. Bill Gates admitted Thursday that he worried his 22-year-old daughter would “come and ask” him for funding when she founded an e-commerce startup with entrepreneur Sophia Kianni. The ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries most affected by the Earth’s warming climate ...

With "Source Code," the billionaire businessman and philanthropist is looking back at both the “wonderful” and the weird moments of growing up Gates Family; Ian Allen/Gates Notes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his ...

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is taking a break from the future to examine his past — and mulling where the billionaires now fit in. Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, who reported ...