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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.
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]
Country Headquarters Endowment (USD) Endowment (home currency) Founded Ref. 1 Novo Nordisk Foundation Denmark: Copenhagen: $167 billion kr.1,114 billion 1989 [3] [4] 2 Tata Trusts India: Mumbai: $100+ billion 1919 [5] 3 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United States: Seattle: $50.2 billion 2000 [6] 4 Wellcome Trust United Kingdom: London: $42.8 ...
The Microsoft cofounder would later famously drop out of Harvard to create one of the world's biggest companies. While Bill Gates famously dropped out of college to cofound one of the biggest ...
Gates eventually gave his additional 4% stake to Ballmer to convince him to quit business school for Microsoft. "He joined in 1980 and became the 24-hour-a-day partner I needed," Gates wrote.
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 ...
Gates received a $2.5-million advance for his book and money from subsidiary rights sales; [2] all his proceeds were donated to "encourage the use of technology in education administered through the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education," [3] a foundation created by the National Education Association. [4]
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.