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With Microsoft turning 50 this year and a newly released book about his life called "Source Code: My Beginning," it’s no surprise that many want to take a deeper look at what makes Bill Gates tick.
In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [163] [164] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax, which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [165]
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]
Stars on the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame. The Entrepreneur Walk of Fame was established to recognize the positive impact of entrepreneurs on job creation and technological progress. [1] Seven honorees were unveiled in the inaugural year. [2] These were Bill Gates, Bill Hewlett, Bob Swanson, David Packard, Mitch Kapor, Steve Jobs, and Thomas ...
Jordan Vonderhaar—Bloomberg/Getty Images Charles Feeney, a philanthropist who Bill Gates once called the “ultimate example of Giving While Living,” has passed away at the age of 92.
As it turns out, unlike Mark Zuckerberg, not all of today's wealthiest entrepreneurs saw such success at a young age. How old 15 self-made billionaires were when they earned their first billion ...
According to his video introduction, Gates saw the lectures when he was younger. [2] He enjoyed the physics concepts and Feynman's lecturing style, and later acquired the rights to make the video available to the public. He hopes that this will encourage others to make educational content available for free. [3]
The book has a few stories that would come as a surprise to Microsoft investors, besides the tale of Gates first meeting a brash Jobs at a conference in the late 70s.