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People know a lot about Microsoft founder Bill Gates — one of the world’s most famous businessmen and philanthropists and one of the wealthiest people ever — and they think they know even more.
In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's largest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.
Gates is currently worth $105.8 billion (as of this writing), according to Forbes, making him the 14th richest person in the world today. However, he has vowed to give most of his money 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 ...
Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, says he is kept up at night by the threat of a world war or another pandemic. ... World war fears. Gates—who is worth $157 billion per the Bloomberg ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
A Map of the World, 1999 film drama directed by Scott Elliott and based on the novel of the same name by Jane Hamilton; A Map of the World, 1999 album by Pat Metheny and soundtrack of the movie A Map of the World "Map of the World (Part II)", song by the Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry from her 1985 album The Speckless Sky "Map of the ...
It’s worth noting that Bill Gates isn’t even the richest person on the planet, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, currently has a net worth of $199.2 billion.