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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.
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]
Bill Gates; Personal information; Full name: William Lazenby Gates [1] Date of birth 8 May 1944: Place of birth: Ferryhill, England: Date of death: 21 October 2023 (aged 79) Position(s) Central defender: Youth career; Middlesbrough: Senior career* Years: Team: Apps (Gls) 1961–1974: Middlesbrough: 283 (12) 1974–1975: Spennymoor United: Total ...
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 ]
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.
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates was released on September 20, 2019 on Netflix. [1] The release came after a summer of "unusually bad press" in which "The New Yorker published emails from the MIT Media Lab suggesting that Gates was "directed" by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to donate $2 million to the institution (Gates' representative has pushed back on that characterization), and ...
23.09.2024 - Presidente da Fundação Bill e Melinda Gates, Bill Gates e o Presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, durante a cerimônia de Premiação anual da iniciativa Goalkeepers, organizada pela Fundação Bill e Melinda Gates, no Jazz at Lincoln Center. Nova York - Estados Unidos. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert / PR: Date
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 ...