Starting in 2000 with the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, poverty, and education.

May 3, 2021 · Entrepreneur Bill Gates cofounded the world’s largest software business, Microsoft, in 1975. Read about his age, net worth, children, ex-wife, house, and more.

1 day ago · Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 ...

3 days ago · In his new memoir, "Source Code," billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates opens up about his adolescence and early adult life. ... and Microsoft turning 50, that I decided, ...

2 days ago · Gates recently sat down with All Things Considered host Scott Detrow at NPR headquarters to talk about a variety of topics: sneaking out to the computer lab in the middle of the night as a teenager; how he and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen outwitted the established computing industry as young upstarts; and his thoughts on the current state of ...

6 days ago · Bill Gates is the visionary computer programmer and cofounder of Microsoft who revolutionized the technology industry with his innovations and became one of the world’s most influential philanthropists.

Feb 3, 2025 · As he prepares to turn 70 later this year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ new memoir explores how his childhood quirks, upbringing, friendships and experiences coalesced into shaping his internal operating system. In “Source Code: My Beginnings,” the first installment of a trilogy retracing his journey from an often misunderstood kid to a ...

Bill Gates shares the story of Microsoft's origins and a company timeline, from his unique perspective co-founding the personal computing giant with Paul Allen.

Jan 31, 2020 · Bill Gates (born Oct. 28, 1955) is the principal co-founder of Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest personal-computer software company and one of the largest and most influential technology companies in the world.

Jan 12, 2025 · Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the wealthiest men in the world. Gates was a software genius who dropped out of Harvard to launch a wildly successful career in tech.