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Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
Source Code: My Beginnings is the forthcoming memoir by Bill Gates. The book will cover his early life and the foundation of Microsoft, ending in the late 1970s when Microsoft signed their first deal with Apple. [1] It is the first of three planned memoirs by Gates. [2] The second will cover his years at Microsoft and the third his philanthropy ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his own words with the memoir Source Code, being released on Feb. 4 "My parents and early friends put me in a position to have a ...
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]
William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
A reviewer at The Seattle Times (and coauthor of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, a 1993 biography of Gates), called Gates' coverage of the Internet "weakest of all" the topics Gates covered, saying the "World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a ...
The Gates Foundation [a] 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 third largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Gates Ventures is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Known until 2018 as bgC3 , it comprises his personal staff, a think tank on problems of health and global development, and a technology investment portfolio. [ 2 ]