Bill Gates

Name	Bill Gates
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Caption	Gates in 2025
Birth Name	William Henry Gates III
Birth Date	1955-10-28
Birth Place	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (dropped out)
Occupation	Businessman ⋅ philanthropist ⋅ computer programmer ⋅ writer
Years Active	1972–present
Spouse	Melinda French (1994 – 2021)
Children	3, including Phoebe
Relatives	Gates family
Website	gatesnotes.com
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Early life and education

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, as the only son of William H. Gates Sr. (1925–2020) and his first wife, Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and United Way of America. Gates's maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates also has an older sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and a younger sister, Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family, but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix. The family lived in the Sand Point area of Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare tornado when Gates was 7.

When Gates was young, his parents wanted him to pursue a career in law. During his childhood, his family regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination.

Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child. The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning, and there was always a penalty for losing".

Microsoft

History of Microsoft

BASIC

IBM partnership

IBM, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC,bunnell1982febmar after Gates's mother mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, IBM's then CEO. IBM first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. IBM's representatives also mentioned that they needed an operating system, and Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating system. IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system. A few weeks later, Gates and Allen proposed using 86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to be the exclusive licensing agent of 86-DOS, and later the full owner. Microsoft employed Paterson to adapt the operating system for the PC and delivered it to IBM as PC DOS for a one-time fee of $50,000.

The contract itself only earned Microsoft a relatively small fee. It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM's adoption of its operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft's transformation from a small business to the leading software company in the world. Gates had not offered to transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM because he believed that other personal computer makers would clone IBM's PC hardware. They did, making the IBM-compatible PC, running DOS, a de facto standard. The sales of MS-DOS (the version of DOS sold to customers other than IBM) made Microsoft a major player in the industry. The press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the IBM PC. PC Magazine asked if Gates was "the man behind the machine?".

Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates the president and chairman of the board, with Paul Allen as vice president and vice chairman. In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity. Later in the decade, Gates repaired his relationship with Allen, and together the two donated millions to their childhood school, Lakeside. They remained friends until Allen's death in October 2018.

Windows

Microsoft and Gates launched their first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, in an attempt to fend off competition from Apple's Macintosh GUI, which had captivated consumers with its simplicity and ease of use. In August 1986, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences. The operating system grew out of DOS in an organic fashion over a decade until Windows 95, which hid the DOS prompt by default. Windows XP was released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO. Windows 8.1 was the last version of the OS released before Gates left the chair of the firm to John W. Thompson on February 5, 2014.

Management style

Post-Microsoft

Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft, Gates has continued his philanthropy and works on other projects. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 to become a technology advisor at the firm to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.

Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in an interview that was published in the March 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In the interview, he provided his perspective on climate change, his charitable activities, various tech companies and people involved in them, and the state of America. In response to a question about his greatest fear when he looks 50 years into the future, Gates stated: "there'll be some really bad things that'll happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them on the scale of, say, a million people that you didn't expect to die from a pandemic, or nuclear or bioterrorism." Gates also identified innovation as the "real driver of progress" and pronounced that "America's way better today than it's ever been." Gates has often expressed concern about the potential harms of superintelligence; in a Reddit "ask me anything", he stated that:

First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned.

Business ventures and investments ''(partial list)''

Gates has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio with stakes in companies in multiple sectors and has participated in several entrepreneurial ventures beyond Microsoft, including:

• AutoNation, an automotive retailer which trades on the NYSE and in which Gates has a 16% stake.
• bgC3 LLC, a think-tank and research company founded by Gates.
• Canadian National Railway (CN), a Canadian Class I freight railway. As of 2019, Gates is the single largest shareholder of the company.
• Cascade Investment LLC, a private investment and holding company incorporated in the United States, founded and controlled by Gates and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
• Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in the United States with his landholdings owned through Cascade Investment totalling 242,000 acres across 19 states. He is the 49th largest private owner of land in the US.
• Carbon Engineering, a for-profit venture founded by David Keith, which Gates helped fund. It is also supported by Chevron Corporation and Occidental Petroleum.
• SCoPEx, Keith's academic venture in "sun-dimming" geoengineering, which Gates provided most of the $12 million for.
• Corbis (originally named Interactive Home Systems, then Corbis and now known as Branded Entertainment Network), a digital image licensing and rights services company founded and chaired by Gates. Corbis Images, its enormous photo image library, was sold to a Chinese firm in January 2016.
• EarthNow, a Seattle-based startup company aiming to blanket the Earth with live satellite video coverage. Gates is a large financial backer.
• Eclipse Aviation, a defunct manufacturer of very light jets. Gates was a major stake-holder early on in the project.
• Impossible Foods, a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products. Some of the $396 million Patrick O. Brown collected for his business came from Gates around 2014 to 2017.
• Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to the food, energy, healthcare, industrial and hospitality markets. Combined with the shares owned by the Foundation, Gates owns 11.6% of the company. A shareholder agreement in 2012 allowed him to own up to 25% of the company, but this agreement was removed.
• ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists. Gates participated in a $35 million round of financing along with other investors.
• TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company co-founded and chaired by Gates, which is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants in an effort to tackle climate change.
• Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a closed fund for wealthy individuals who seek ROI on a 20-year horizon (see next section), which "is funding green start-ups and a host of other low-carbon entrepreneurial projects, including everything from advanced nuclear technology to synthetic breast milk". It was founded by Gates in 2015.
• Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech startup that received $350 million in venture funding in 2019, in part from Gates's investment firm Cascade Investment.
• Luminous Computing, a company that develops neuromorphic photonic integrated circuits for AI acceleration.
• Mologic, a British diagnostic technology company that Gates purchased, along with the Soros Economic Development Fund, "which has developed 10-minute Covid lateral flow tests that it aims to make for as little as $1".

Climate change and energy

Political positions

In October 2024, The New York Times reported Gates had recently donated $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, a 501(c)(4) organization supporting Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In response to the report, he did not explicitly address the donation or endorse Harris, but said "this election is different".

Regulation of the software industry

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In 1998, Gates rejected the need for regulation of the software industry in testimony before the United States Senate. During the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) investigation of Microsoft in the 1990s, Gates was reportedly upset at then Commissioner Dennis Yao for "floating a line of hypothetical questions suggesting possible curbs on Microsoft's growing monopoly power".

Donald Trump Facebook ban

Patents for COVID-19 vaccines

TRIPS Agreement waiver
In April 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates was criticized for suggesting that pharmaceutical companies should hold onto patents and intellectual property for COVID-19 vaccines. He opposed the TRIPS waiver. The Gates Foundation encouraged Oxford University to partner with a big company rather than give away the rights to its COVID-19 vaccine, as the university had initially announced. Oxford University eventually partnered with AstraZeneca. The criticism came due to the possibility of this preventing poorer nations from obtaining adequate vaccines. Gates argued that what limited widespread access was not intellectual property, but rather the time needed for safety protocols, and the difficulty of safely transferring vaccine production to new facilities. His views on the topic have been linked to his views on legal monopolies in software.

Cryptocurrencies

Gates has been critical of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. According to him, cryptocurrencies provide no "valuable output", contribute nothing to society, and pose a danger especially for smaller investors who could not survive the potentially high losses. Gates also does not own any cryptocurrencies himself.

Philanthropy

In an interview with the BBC in 2025, Gates stated that his charitable donations have totalled $100 billion, of which $60 billion have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Governments are there to think ahead to bad things that might happen. In the case of (the COVID-19) pandemic, not enough was done. We can't forget that another pandemic will come and we'll need to invest in being ready in that, ... while not forgetting that we were not prepared and we're going to have to invest – just like having a fire department – some money in an intelligent way and actually simulate what might happen and make sure that we're ready for it.

Personal donations

Melinda Gates suggested that people should emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, who sold their home and gave away half of its value, as detailed in their book, The Power of Half. 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. The Foundation has received criticism, particularly over its role in Common Core, with critics stating the support is "cronyist" in that it profits from the "federal, state, and local contracts".

Gates has also provided personal donations to educational institutions. In 1999, Gates donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the construction of a computer laboratory named the "William H. Gates Building" that was designed by architect Frank Gehry. While Microsoft had previously given financial support to the institution, this was the first personal donation received from Gates.

The Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named after the mothers of both Gates and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer, both of whom were students (Ballmer was a member of the school's graduating class of 1977, while Gates left his studies for Microsoft), and donated funds for the laboratory's construction. Gates also donated $6 million to the construction of the Gates Computer Science Building, completed in January 1996, on the campus of Stanford University. The building contains the Computer Science Department and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) of Stanford's Engineering department.

Since 2005, Gates and his foundation have taken an interest in solving global sanitation problems. For example, they announced the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", which has received considerable media interest. To raise awareness for the topic of sanitation and possible solutions, Gates drank water that was "produced from human feces" in 2014 – it was produced from a sewage sludge treatment process called the Omni Processor. In early 2015, he also appeared with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show and challenged him to see if he could taste the difference between this reclaimed water or bottled water.

In November 2017, Gates said he would give $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that seeks treatment for Alzheimer's disease. He also pledged an additional $50 million to start-up ventures working in Alzheimer's research. Bill and Melinda Gates have said that they intend to leave their three children $10 million each as their inheritance. With only $30 million kept in the family, they are expected to give away about 99.96% of their wealth. In 2025 Bill Gates said in an interview with Raj Shammi that his children will inherit less than 1% of his wealth. On August 25, 2018, Gates distributed $600,000 through his foundation via UNICEF which is helping flood affected victims in Kerala, India.

In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax, which creates and provides free digital textbooks. In July 2022 he reiterated the commitment he had made by starting the Giving Pledge campaign by announcing on his Twitter channel he planned to give 'virtually all' his wealth to charity and eventually 'move off of the list of the world's richest people'.

Charity sports events

In April 2017, Gates partnered with Swiss tennis player Roger Federer in playing in the Match for Africa 4, a noncompetitive tennis match at a sold-out Key Arena in Seattle. The event was in support of the Roger Federer Foundation's charity efforts in Africa. Federer and Gates played against John Isner, the top-ranked American player for much of this decade, and Mike McCready, the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam. The pair won the match 6 games to 4. Overall, they raised $2 million for children in Africa. The following year, Gates and Federer returned to play in the Match for Africa 5 on March 5, 2018, at San Jose's SAP Center. Their opponents were Jack Sock, one of the top American players and a grand slam winner in doubles, and Savannah Guthrie, a co-anchor for NBC's Today show. Gates and Federer recorded their second match victory together by a score of 6–3 and the event raised over $2.5 million.

Books

In 1989, Gates wrote the foreword to the Microsoft Press book Learn BASIC Now, by Michael Halvorson and David Rygmyr, reflecting on the growth of the BASIC language and its use in most of the era's personal computers. He also sketched out plans for BASIC's use as a universal language to embellish or alter the performance of a range of software applications.

Gates has authored several books. The Road Ahead, co-authored with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson, was published in November 1995. It summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway. His second book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, was published in 1999, and discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help to get an edge on the competition. In 2021 he published How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, which presents what Gates learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. Following the COVID-19 pandemic Gates published How to Prevent the Next Pandemic in 2022 which proposes a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion, under the auspices of the WHO.

The first of Gates's planned three memoirs, Source Code was published in February 2025.

Personal life

Gates is an avid reader, and the ceiling of his large home library is engraved with a quotation from The Great Gatsby. He also enjoys bridge, golf, and tennis. His days are planned for him on a minute-by-minute basis, similarly to the U.S. president's schedule. Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates flew coach (economy class) in commercial aircraft until 1997, when he bought a private jet.

In the 1990s, Gates built an earth-sheltered mansion, designed by James Cutler and Peter Bohlin, in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The estate has been nicknamed "Xanadu 2.0" by Gates's biographers. In 2009, property taxes on the mansion were reported to be US$1.063 million, on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million. The 66000sqft estate has a 60ft swimming pool with an underwater music system, as well as a 2500sqft gym and a 1000sqft dining room.

Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for US$30.8 million at an auction in 1994. In 1998, he reportedly paid $30 million for the original 1885 maritime painting Lost on the Grand Banks, at the time a record price for an American painting. In 2016, he revealed that he was color-blind. In 2025, in Source Code, Gates wrote that he believed he was autistic.

Marriage, family and divorce

Family of Bill Gates

Public image

Religious views

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gates said in regard to his faith: "The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief." In the same 2014 interview he also said: "I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view laughs. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."

Wealth

When Microsoft went public in 1986, Gates retained 44.9% ownership of the company. In 1987, he was listed as a billionaire in Forbes magazine's first America's richest issue; Gates was the world's youngest-ever self-made billionaire, with a net worth of $1.25 billion. Since then, he has been featured on The World's Billionaires list and was ranked as the richest person in 1995, 1996, 1998–2007, and 2009, maintaining the position until 2018, when Jeff Bezos surpassed his wealth. Gates was ranked first on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans from 1993 to 2007, in 2009, and from 2014 to 2017. According to Forbes, as of February 17, 2025, Gates' estimated net worth stood at US$108.8 billion, making him the 16th richest individual in the world.

Gates's wealth briefly surpassed US$100 billion in 1999, making him the first person to reach this net worth. After 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings declined, partly because of the decline in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst, and partly because of the multi-billion dollar donations he had made to his charitable foundations. In May 2006, Gates remarked that he wished that he was not the richest man in the world, because he disliked the attention that it brought. In March 2010, Gates was the second wealthiest person after Carlos Slim, but regained the top position in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Slim regained the position again in June 2014 (but then lost the top position back to Gates). Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to US$82 billion. In October 2017, Gates was surpassed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2023, he was ranked sixth with a wealth of $115.0 billion. He once again became the richest person in the world in November 2019 after a 48% increase in Microsoft shares, surpassing Bezos. Gates told the BBC, "I've paid more tax than any individual ever, and gladly so ... I've paid over $6 billion in taxes." He is a proponent of higher taxes, particularly for the rich.

Gates has several investments outside Microsoft, which in 2006 paid him a salary of US$616,667 and a bonus of US$350,000, for a total of US$966,667. In 1989, he founded Corbis, a digital imaging company. In 2004, he became a board member of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company headed by long-time friend Warren Buffett.

Controversies

Antitrust litigation

United States Microsoft antitrust case

Early rounds of his deposition show him offering obfuscatory answers and saying "I don't recall" so many times that even the presiding judge had to chuckle. Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail that Gates both sent and received.

Treatment of colleagues and employees

Some Microsoft employees, including key executives, have begun to act, speak, and sometimes look a bit like Gates. They may rock in their chairs, as if they were ready to go somewhere, or end each sentence by elongating the last word.

Computerworld, 1987

In my 1990s BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there, along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f***-count, the better ... the meeting "Four," announced the f*** counter, and everyone said, "wow, that’s the lowest I can remember. Bill is getting mellow in his old age." He was, you know, 36.

Joel Spolsky, 2006

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Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

A 2019 New York Times article reported that Gates's relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011, just a few years after Epstein was convicted for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued for some years, including a visit to Epstein's house with his wife in the fall of 2013, despite her declared discomfort. Gates said in 2011 about Epstein: "His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me".

The depth of the friendship between Gates and Epstein is unclear though Gates generally commented that "I met him. I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him". However, Gates visited Epstein "many times, despite Epstein's past". It was reported that Epstein and Gates "discussed the Gates Foundation and philanthropy". Gates stated "Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men. I was never at any parties or anything like that. He never donated any money to anything that I know about." In August 2021, Gates said the reason he had meetings with Epstein was because Gates hoped Epstein could provide money for philanthropic work, though nothing came of the idea. Gates added, "It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there." Gates came under further scrutiny after it was revealed that he had travelled on Epstein's private jet, though further claims about Gates travelling to Little Saint James proved unsubstantiated.

It has also been reported that Epstein and Gates met with Nobel Committee chair Thorbjørn Jagland at his residence in Strasbourg, France, in March 2013 to discuss the Nobel Prize. Also in attendance were representatives of the International Peace Institute which has received millions in grants from the Gates Foundation, including a $2.5 million "community engagement" grant in October 2013. In 2023, it was reported that Epstein threatened to expose an alleged affair Gates had with a Russian bridge player.

In December 2025, Gates appeared in two photos released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from documents in Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These photos were part of thousands of other files ordered to be released pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
In January 2026, unsealed Epstein files revealed two 2013 draft emails by Epstein alleging Gates' extramarital affairs with "Russian girls" and "married women," resulting in him contracting an STD, and that an associate secretly obtained antibiotics for Melinda Gates while facilitating encounters. The emails accused Gates of ending their friendship after a failed Gates Foundation-JPMorgan deal and mentioned Epstein's resignation amid marital disputes and inappropriate activities. Unclear if sent and uncorroborated, the allegations were denied by Gates' spokesperson as "absolutely absurd and completely false," stemming from Epstein's frustration and efforts to "entrap and defame." It was also revealed that the emails by Epstein which involved discussion about Gates possibly contracting an STD and in need of antibiotics were in fact written on behalf of Boris Nikolić, an aggrieved employee of Gates who served as the Gates Foundation's chief advisor of science and technology, and was also planning to resign. Nikolic resigned from the Gates Foundation in 2014, and would also go on to serve as an executor to Epstein's estate.

Climate memo in 2025

In October 2025, Bill Gates issued a statement about climate change that some described as shocking. He said that climate change does not pose an existential threat to civilization, and while it remains a serious problem, it is more important to give money to solve poverty and improve healthcare. Some scientists say much of the suffering Gates now deems a priority results from climate change. Prominent climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe reacted as follows: "Climate change is not a separate bucket...The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket." Others think Gates simply misses the point. According to prominent climate scientist Michael E. Mann: "There is no greater threat to developing nations than the climate crisis...He’s got this all backwards."

Donald Trump reacted by posting he had "just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax" because Gates had "finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue." However, Gates said it is "a gigantic misreading of the memo". He told Axios that he will actually increase his spending on climate and health.

The memo came a day after the United Nations said humanity had missed the 1.5-degree target, warning of "devastating consequences" some of which are linked to tipping points, like in the Amazon, Greenland, Western Antarctica, and coral reefs. It was also released at the same time Hurricane Melissa, strengthened by climate change, struck the Caribbean islands costing Jamaica alone 30%-250% of its annual GDP. The situation was worsened by the fact that migrants in the USA that Trump wishes to send back now lack homes to return to, and the storm could increase migration. Approximately at the same time, a peer reviewed climate report warned that we are "hurtling toward climate chaos". Generally, the number of scientific studies dealing with societal collapse from climate change is rising.

Awards and recognition

Bill and Melinda Gates being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then President Barack Obama in 2016

• Time magazine listed Gates as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century in 1999, as well as one of the 100 most influential people in 2004, 2005, and 2006 respectively.
• Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. In 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time" published by New Statesman.
• Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list in 1999, named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998, ranked number two in the Upside Elite 100 in 1999, and was also included in The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.
• Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit (1996), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2002), Waseda University (2005), Tsinghua University (2007), Harvard University (2007), the Karolinska Institute (2007), the University of Cambridge (2009), and Northern Arizona University (2023). He was also made an honorary trustee of Peking University in 2007.
• In 1994, he was honored as the 20th Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS). In 1999, Gates received New York Institute of Technology's President's Medal.
• Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing".
• Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, «Eristalis gatesi», in his honor in 1997.
• He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1998.
• In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.
• Gates was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005.
• He was given the 2006 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from the Tech Awards.
• In January 2006, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry by the then president of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio.
• In November 2006, he was awarded the Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, together with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Insignia of the same order, both for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "«Un país de lectores»".
• Gates received the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute for his achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work.
• Also in 2010, he was honored with the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America, its highest award for adults, for his service to youth.
• According to Forbes, Gates was ranked as the fourth most powerful person in the world in 2012, up from fifth in 2011.
• In 2015, Gates and his wife Melinda received the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award for their social work in the country.
• In 2016, Barack Obama honored Bill and Melinda Gates with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their philanthropic efforts.
• In 2017, François Hollande awarded Bill and Melinda Gates with France's highest national order, as Commanders in the Legion of Honour, for their charity efforts.
• He was elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.
• In 2019, Gates was awarded the Professor Hawking Fellowship of the Cambridge Union in the University of Cambridge.
• In 2020, Gates received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to Japan and the world in regard to worldwide technological transformation and advancement of global health.
• In 2021, Gates was nominated at the 11th annual Streamy Awards for the crossover for his personal YouTube channel.
• In 2022, Gates received the Hilal-e-Pakistan, the second-highest civilian award in Pakistan for his social work in the country.
• In June 2025, Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali conferred the national honour of Ethiopian Special Order on Bill Gates
• In June 2025, Nigerian president Bola Ahmed Tinubu conferred the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic on Bill Gates

Depiction in media

Documentary films about Gates

• The Machine That Changed the World (1990)
• Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
• Nerds 2.0.1 (1998)
• Waiting for "Superman" (2010)
• The Virtual Revolution (2010)
• Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019)
• What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates (2024)

Feature films

• 1999: Pirates of Silicon Valley, a film that chronicles the rise of Apple and Microsoft from the early 1970s to 1997. Gates is portrayed by Anthony Michael Hall.
• 2002: Nothing So Strange, a mockumentary featuring Gates as the subject of a modern assassination. Gates briefly appears at the start, played by Steve Sires.
• 2010: The Social Network, a film that chronicles the development of Facebook. Gates is portrayed by Steve Sires.
• 2015: Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates: The Competition to Control the Personal Computer, 1974–1999: Original film from the National Geographic Channel for the American Genius series.

Video and film clips

• 1983: Steve Jobs hosts Gates and others in the "Macintosh dating game" at the Macintosh pre-launch event (a parody of the television game show The Dating Game)
• 1991: Gates spoke to the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group lively weekly Thursday night meeting with questions and answers in PSL Hall (renamed Pimentel Hall in 1994) at University of California, Berkeley
• 2007: , All Things Digital
• Since 2009, Gates has given numerous TED talks on current concerns such as innovation, education and fighting global diseases

Radio

Gates was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on January 31, 2016, in which he talked about his relationships with his father and Steve Jobs, meeting Melinda Ann French, the start of Microsoft and some of his habits (for example reading The Economist "from cover to cover every week"). His choice of things to take on a desert island were, for music: "Blue Skies" by Willie Nelson; a book: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker; and luxury item: a DVD Collection of Lectures from The Teaching Company.

Television

Gates starred as himself in a brief appearance on the Frasier episode "The Two Hundredth Episode". He also made a guest appearance as himself on the TV show The Big Bang Theory, in an episode titled "The Gates Excitation". He also appeared in a cameo role in 2019 on the series finale of Silicon Valley. Gates was parodied in The Simpsons episode "Das Bus". In 2023, Gates was the interviewee in an episode of the Amol Rajan Interviews series on BBC Two, and was the subject of an episode of the UK Channel 4 series The Billionaires Who Made Our World. In 2025, he also made guest appearance via video call in Hindi TV show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2.

Books

See also

• List of richest Americans in history

Notes

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• Microsoft names Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer, February 4, 2014, BBC News, February 4, 2014, live, February 4, 2014
• Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview, Rolling Stone, March 28, 2014, Jeff, Goodell, March 13, 2014, live, March 17, 2014
• January 28, 2015, Bill Gates Says You Should Worry About Artificial Intelligence, Eric, Mack, Forbes, February 19, 2015, live, February 19, 2015
• Bill Gates Is Worried About the Rise of the Machines, The Fiscal Times, February 19, 2015, Andrew, Lumby, January 28, 2015, live, February 19, 2015
• Apple co-founder on artificial intelligence: 'The future is scary and very bad for people', The Washington Post, Peter, Holley, March 24, 2015, April 8, 2015, live, April 17, 2015
• Permalink to an answer from "Hi Reddit, I'm Bill Gates and I'm back for my third AMA. Ask me anything. • /r/IAmA", January 28, 2015, reddit, June 10, 2015, December 31, 2015, live
• Baidu CEO Robin Li interviews Bill Gates and Elon Musk at the Boao Forum, March 29, 2015, March 31, 2015, YouTube, April 8, 2015, live, May 1, 2015
• Gates, Bill, The next outbreak? We're not ready, June 8, 2020, TED, April 3, 2015, en, February 7, 2020, live
• Bill Gates reveals his 'greatest mistake' that potentially cost Microsoft $400 billion, Scipioni, Jade, June 24, 2019, CNBC, en, December 22, 2019, June 24, 2019, live
• Leadership, Bloomberg New Economy, September 30, 2023, October 5, 2022, live
• Haselton, Todd, March 13, 2020, Bill Gates leaves Microsoft board, CNBC, March 13, 2020, March 13, 2020, live
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• Schwab, Tim, August 21, 2020, Journalism's Gates keepers, April 5, 2021, Columbia Journalism Review, en, August 21, 2020, live
• Gates Foundation Commits $100 Million to Speeding Up Coronavirus Treatments and Response, March 10, 2020, Good News Network, en-US, April 22, 2021, March 11, 2020, live
• Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci talk regularly — here's what they're discussing now, February 11, 2021, CNBC.com, May 3, 2021, February 11, 2021, live
• Bill Gates Cuts His Stake in AutoNation Stock, Barron's, October 9, 2021, January 14, 2023, January 14, 2023, live
• The New York Times, Bill Gates Has Started a New Company, bgC3, Marshall Kirpatric, October 22, 2008, February 25, 2022, October 28, 2008, live
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• Cascade Investment (Bill and Melinda Gates Investments (BMGI)) – Family Office, United States – SWFI, September 19, 2022, June 29, 2020, live
• January 11, 2021, Bill Gates: America's Top Farmland Owner , , The Land Report, February 11, 2021, landreport.com, en-US, January 11, 2021, live
• April 5, 2021, Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? , , Nick Estes, April 5, 2021, The Guardian, en, April 5, 2021, live
• Weinberger, Hannah, Bill Gates is investing big in American farmland , , Crosscut, February 11, 2021, crosscut.com, February 10, 2021, en, February 10, 2021, live
• Hamilton, Tyler, Snatching CO2 back from the air, The Toronto Star, October 8, 2015, November 6, 2015, October 29, 2015, live
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• Gunther, Marc, The business of cooling the planet, Fortune, April 18, 2021, September 28, 2022, live
• Brigham, Katie, Bill Gates and Big Oil back this company that's trying to solve climate change by sucking CO2 out of the air, CNBC LLC, June 22, 2019, April 18, 2021, September 22, 2022, live
• 10.1038/d41586-018-07533-4, doi, 2018, 30479388, free, Tollefson, J., Nature, 563, 7733, 613–615
• Corbis Images Sold by Bill Gates to Visual China Group , , PetaPixel, June 6, 2021, petapixel.com, January 22, 2016, January 24, 2016, live
• April 18, 2018, Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us 'see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered', May 25, 2021, GeekWire, en-US, April 22, 2018, live
• Eclipse Aviation Gets Foreign Investment, January 21, 2023, Clark, Heather, January 2008, dead, May 17, 2008
• Gilchrist, Karen, How Impossible Burger's 'simple' vision won hundreds of millions in funding — and backing from Bill Gates, CNBC LLC, March 7, 2019, April 18, 2021, September 22, 2022, live
• Strom, Stephanie, Impossible Burger's 'Secret Sauce' Highlights Challenges of Food Tech, August 8, 2017, limited, The New York Times, August 8, 2017
• Beyond the Headlines: A Clarification Regarding Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, August 15, 2017, April 18, 2021, December 7, 2021, live
• Tribune, Patrick Kennedy Star, Bill Gates' investment firm increases its ownership in Ecolab, October 5, 2021, Star Tribune, March 13, 2018, live
• Bill Gates Joins $35 Million Funding in Startup ResearchGate, Bloomberg, Levy, Jared Ari, June 4, 2013, January 28, 2015, live, January 9, 2015
• Bill Gates Talks About the Potential of Nuclear Innovation on '60 Minutes', April 21, 2021, Nuclear Energy Institute, February 17, 2021, February 17, 2021, live
• Clifford, Catherine, April 8, 2021, How Bill Gates' company TerraPower is building next-generation nuclear power, April 20, 2021, CNBC, en, April 8, 2021, live
• Carpenter, Scott, Bill Gates' Nuclear Startup Unveils Mini-Reactor Design Including Molten Salt Energy Storage, April 20, 2021, Forbes, en, September 1, 2020, live
• Mufson, Steven, Bill Gates comes to Washington — selling the promise of nuclear energy, en-US, The Washington Post, April 22, 2021, 0190-8286, February 21, 2021, live
• Gardner, Timothy, August 28, 2020, Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom, en, Reuters, April 22, 2021, April 22, 2021, live
• Aronoff, Kate, The Dark Side of Bill Gates's Climate Techno-Optimism, The New Republic, March 3, 2021, April 20, 2021, April 20, 2021, live
• Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts, Reuters, October 9, 2019, April 27, 2021, April 27, 2021, live
• Field, Matthew, Bill Gates and George Soros join buyout of UK Covid testing company, January 10, 2022, subscription, live, The Telegraph, July 18, 2021
• Wattles, Jackie, November 11, 2015, Bill Gates launches multi-billion dollar clean energy fund, December 12, 2020, CNN Money, December 1, 2015, live
• Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis, 7, Wired, 19, June 20, 2011, October 2, 2019, May 17, 2020, live
• Gates, Bill, November 30, 2015, Energy Innovation: Why We Need It and How to Get It, December 12, 2020, Gates Notes, June 5, 2020, dead
• Thornhill, John, Adams, Christopher, June 25, 2015, Gates to double investment in renewable energy projects, December 10, 2022, subscription, live, December 12, 2020, Financial Times, en-GB
• Schlosser, Kurt, December 3, 2020, Bill Gates calls for creation of National Institutes of Energy Innovation to better address climate change, December 12, 2020, GeekWire, en-US, December 3, 2020, live
• Listek, Vanesa, February 19, 2021, Redefine Meat Raises $29M to Grow its 3D Printed Alt-Meat Portfolio, 3DR HOLDINGS, 3D Print, April 14, 2021, September 23, 2022, live
• January 9, 2021, Bill Gates joins Blackstone in bid to buy British private jet services firm, February 2, 2021, The Guardian, en, January 9, 2021, live
• February 15, 2021, Bill Gates shows how hard it can be to divest from fossil fuel, February 17, 2021, The Edge Markets, February 16, 2021, dead
• Reviewed: "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" by Bill Gates, "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and "Under a White Sky" by Elizabeth Kolbert, March 8, 2021, MIT Technology Review, en, February 16, 2021, live
• Hirsh, Sophie, April 5, 2022, Bill Gates' New Doc, 'Solving for Zero', Showcases Climate Change Solutions That Could Actually Work, April 14, 2023, Green Matters, en-US, April 14, 2023, live
• Bill Gates' next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming, June 3, 2021, Arab News, Reuters, June 3, 2021, June 3, 2021, live
• Rathi, Akshat, A Dlouhy, Jennifer, Bill Gates and the Secret Push to Save Biden's Climate Bill, September 19, 2022, Bloomberg, August 2022, August 18, 2022, live
• Gates, Bill, August 5, 2022, Opinion , , Bill Gates: We're on the Verge of a Remarkable Moment for Congress and the Country, en-US, The New York Times, October 24, 2022, 0362-4331, October 24, 2022, live
• Morimoto, Tianna, Microsoft founder Bill Gates honored at Northern Arizona University graduation, May 19, 2023, Arizona's Family, May 2023, May 19, 2023, live
• Schleifer, Theodore, October 22, 2024, Bill Gates Privately Says He Has Backed Harris With $50 Million Donation, October 22, 2024, The New York Times
• Taylor, Stuart Jr., November 1, 1993, What To Do With The Microsoft Monster, live, October 23, 2020, 2021-09-11, The American Lawyer, en-US
• Zahn, Max, Serwer, Andy, February 18, 2021, Bill Gates: Permanent Facebook ban of Trump would be 'a shame', Yahoo! Finance, November 7, 2021, October 16, 2021, live
• Cao, Sissi, April 28, 2021, Bill Gates' Comments On COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Draw Outrage, live, January 2, 2022, January 2, 2022, Observer
• Allison, Simon, January 30, 2021, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and entrenching the vaccine apartheid, live, January 2, 2022, January 2, 2022, The Mail & Guardian
• Mookim, Mohit, May 19, 2021, The World Loses Under Bill Gates' Vaccine Colonialism, live, December 24, 2021, January 2, 2022, Wired
• Hancock, Jay, August 25, 2020, They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold Them to Pharma, live, February 7, 2021, January 2, 2022, Kaiser Health News
• Bill Gates under fire for saying vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with developing world, Kilander, Gustaf, April 26, 2021, The Independent, Washington, D.C., London, en, May 20, 2021, April 26, 2021, live
• Bill Gates explains why he doesn't own any cryptocurrency, May 22, 2022, May 19, 2022, Forbes, Rachel Sandler, May 19, 2022, live
• Bill Gates: We've given away $100bn, but my children won't be poor when I'm gone, Katie, Razzall, February 3, 2025, BBC News, February 4, 2025
• Gates foundation, May 23, 2012, dead
• The Top Ten US Charitable Foundations, Robin, Toal, September 16, 2013, Funds For NGOs, Funds For NGOs, LLC, April 7, 2014, live, April 6, 2014
• Bill Gates: billionaire philanthropist, Cronin, Jon, January 25, 2005, April 1, 2008, October 15, 2007, live, BBC News
• Our Approach to Giving, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 4, 2008, dead, April 1, 2008
• Bill Gates – Carnegie Mellon University, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, January 27, 2019, January 6, 2019, live
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Builds Carnegie Mellon's Home for Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, University, cmu.edu, January 27, 2019, January 6, 2019, live
• January 1, 2006, 2005 Annual Report, dead, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, February 16, 2008, February 14, 2008
• What We Do, 2014, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 3, 2014, live, April 6, 2014
• Agricultural Development Golden Rice, February 3, 2016, dead, February 3, 2016
• Family Planning, January 1, 2001, www.gatesfoundation.org, October 29, 2019, February 27, 2013, live
• Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation, January 7, 2007, Los Angeles Times, live, September 19, 2008
• Gates Foundation to review investments, Heim, Kristi, January 10, 2007, The Seattle Times, dead, May 16, 2007
• Piller, Charles, Gates Foundation to keep its investment approach, Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2020, January 14, 2007, October 21, 2020, live
• Pandemic, though terrible, helped push digital financial revolution: Bill Gates, December 9, 2020, Business Times, Singapore, December 8, 2020, December 8, 2020, live
• Miller, Anna Medaris, Bill Gates says he doesn't understand anti-maskers: 'What are these, like, nudists?', Business Insider, Insider Inc., November 16, 2020, March 15, 2021, September 23, 2022, live
• They half it in them, Bina, Abraham, October 1, 2010, Gulf News, March 17, 2011, January 21, 2011, dead
• Four Strategic Generosity Lessons, Moss, Rosabeth, December 14, 2010, Business Week, March 9, 2011, February 25, 2011, dead
• 40 billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth, NBC News, August 4, 2010, August 8, 2010, June 10, 2013, live
• A Rich Gift: Homemade Jelly for Bill and Melinda Gates, Robyn Griggs Lawrence, February 22, 2011, Mother Earth News, March 10, 2011, February 24, 2011, dead
• Sower, Craig, March 14, 2014, Common Core's Leviathan , , Craig Sower, December 31, 2023, THINK.IAFOR.ORG, en-US, December 31, 2023, live
• The Organization Named Achieve: Cradle of Common Core Cronyism, Department of Education, December 31, 2023, December 31, 2023, live
• October 7, 2015, Melinda Gates says Common Core pushback propelled by changing too much, too fast, December 31, 2023, PBS NewsHour, en-us, December 31, 2023, live
• August 16, 2022, Schoolchildren Are Not 'Mere Creatures of the State', December 31, 2023, Commentary Magazine, en-US, December 31, 2023, live
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• Our Campus – Teaching, research, and administrative spaces, 2014, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, President and Fellows of Harvard College, April 7, 2014, live, April 6, 2014
• Gates Computer Science Building, 2014, Stanford Engineering, Stanford University, April 1, 2014, dead, April 6, 2014
• Bill Gates Can't Build a Toilet, Kass, Jason, November 18, 2013, March 24, 2015, March 25, 2015, live, The New York Times, Opinion Pages
• Bill Gates drinks water distilled from human faeces, January 11, 2015, live, January 11, 2015, BBC News, January 7, 2015
• From poop to portable, This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces into Drinking Water, January 5, 2015, Gatesnotes.com, January 13, 2015, live, January 13, 2015, Gates, Bill
• Bill Gates and Jimmy Drink Poop Water, January 22, 2015, Youtube Channel of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, May 7, 2015, live
• Bill Gates makes $100 million personal investment to fight Alzheimer's, Reuters, November 13, 2017, live, November 13, 2017, November 13, 2017
• Briefly Noted < Excellence in Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Roundtable, February 11, 2016, live, March 10, 2016
• Bill Gates says his children will get less than 1% of his wealth
• Bill Gates follows Thalapathy Vijay's unique way to help Kerala flood victims – Tamil Movie News, IndiaGlitz.com, August 25, 2018, August 26, 2018, live
• Brueck, Hilary, Bill Gates Is Giving Away Free Copies of One of the Most Important Books He's Read to All College Graduates – Here's How to Get Yours, July 21, 2022, Entrepreneur, en, May 17, 2021, live
• Gates Notes, Every College and University Student Around the World Can Now Receive a Free Digital Copy of Bill Gates' Book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, prnewswire, July 21, 2022, en, October 25, 2021, July 21, 2022, live
• Lui, Herbert, Why Bill Gates gave away 4 million copies of this book to future leaders, July 21, 2022, Fast Company, October 2, 2021, July 21, 2022, live
• Are Bill and Melinda Gates Giving Away Free College Textbooks?, Snopes, August 24, 2016, July 21, 2022, October 13, 2022, live
• Bill Gates pledges to donate 'virtually all' of $113bn fortune to his foundation, Victoria, Bekiempis, July 15, 2022, The Guardian, March 13, 2023, December 16, 2022, live
• Live blog: Bill Gates and Roger Federer play tennis for charity in Seattle, April 30, 2017, May 1, 2017, live
• Match For Africa 4 a Huge Hit for Federer's Foundation, Tennis.com, May 16, 2018, May 4, 2017, live
• Roger Federer's Match For Africa Raises More Than $2.5 Million, Tennis.com, May 16, 2018, March 8, 2018, live
• Gates, Bill, Halvorson, Michael, Rygmyr, David, Learn BASIC Now, 1989, Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, ix-x
• Adam, Vaughan, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic review: Bill Gates's timely blueprint, May 2, 2022, New Scientist, en-US, May 5, 2022, May 2, 2022, live
• Horton, Richard, May 14, 2022, Offline: Bill Gates and the fate of WHO, The Lancet, English, 399, 10338, 1853, 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00874-1, 35569450, 248726392, 0140-6736, free
• Source Code, Penguin Books, January 3, 2024
• Paterson, Thane, "He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it" (Advice for Bill Gates: A Little Culture Wouldn't Hurt), Business Week, June 13, 2000, April 28, 2008, May 1, 2008, dead
• Gates, Bill, 2022, I was recently asked what advice I would give to young people who want to make a positive impact on the world, live, June 19, 2022, June 19, 2022, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, My advice is simple: Read a lot and discover a skill you enjoy
• Bill Gates: Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, 2008, August 28, 2008, dead
• Profile: Bill Gates, BBC News, January 26, 2004, January 1, 2010, February 1, 2009, live
• Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day – meet the man worth $80 billion, Mary, Riddell, October 21, 2016, The Telegraph, October 24, 2016, live, October 24, 2016
• Safronova, Valeriya, May 5, 2021, Who Gets Xanadu 2.0, the Gates Family Mansion?, March 25, 2025, The New York Times, en-US, 0362-4331
• Anderson, Rick, May 16, 2008, Taxman Cometh, dead, April 17, 2013, Seattle Weekly
• May 22, 2002, Photo Gallery: Homes Of The Billionaires, dead, March 26, 2010, June 9, 2010, Forbes
• Vogel, Carol, Sale of Homer Seascape Sets Record, The New York Times, May 5, 1998, April 26, 2021, September 21, 2022, live
• This Was Bill Gates' Favorite XBLA Game, Alex, Osborn, February 18, 2016, IGN, Ziff Davis, live, February 19, 2016
• Nguyen, Sophia, February 4, 2025, Why Bill Gates buried a headline in his memoir's epilogue, February 5, 2025, February 5, 2025, The Washington Post, "Well, the word "autism" — or on the spectrum or ADHD — was not ever used when I was growing up. But if you pattern-match looking backwards, even today I have this rocking behavior that's kind of self-stimming that is a symptom of people who are on the spectrum. And , elementary school, when I turn in a Delaware state report that's 200 pages and everybody else is turning in five pages, I was kind of embarrassed. Why did I go nuts over that thing?
• Fleury, Michelle, May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage, September 2, 2024, BBC News, en-GB
• Dodd, Sophie, June 26, 2024, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates' Relationship Timeline, September 2, 2024, People, en
• Liao, Christina, July 31, 2017, You Can Now Have Your Wedding Where Bill Gates Got Married, September 2, 2024, Forbes, en
• Gammon, Katherine, What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye, May 19, 2008, Wired, May 4, 2021, April 13, 2021, live
• Dodd, Sophie, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates' 3 Children: All About Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe, September 2, 2024, Peoplemag, en
• Novet, Jordan, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are splitting up after 27 years, CNBC, May 3, 2021, en, May 3, 2021, May 3, 2021, live
• May 13, 2021, limited, The Gateses' Public Split Spotlights a Secretive Fortune, Nicholas, Kulish, David, Gelles, Anupreeta, Das, Kate, Kelly, May 13, 2021, The New York Times
• Melinda Gates Was Meeting With Divorce Lawyers Since 2019 to End Marriage With Bill Gates, Emily, Glazer, Khadeeja, Safdar, The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2021, May 12, 2021, May 11, 2021, live
• DeSantis, Rachel, Triggs, Charlotte, May 7, 2021, 'Combo of Things' Led to Bill & Melinda Gates' Divorce, But 'Nobody' Wants 'More Scrutiny': Source, September 2, 2024, People, en
• Kulish, Nicholas, August 2, 2021, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates finalize their divorce, September 2, 2024, The New York Times, en-US, 0362-4331
• Scipioni, Jade, June 26, 2020, Bill Gates' daughter Jenn: 'I was born into a huge situation of privilege', live, April 23, 2021, May 3, 2021, CNBC
• Calvario, Liz, March 7, 2023, Bill Gates becomes a first-time grandfather after daughter Jennifer welcomes baby, July 29, 2024, TODAY.com, en
• Sacks, Hannah, Clack, Erin, November 2, 2024, Jennifer Gates Welcomes Baby No. 2, a Girl, with Husband Nayel Nassar: 'The Best Gift', December 17, 2024, People, en
• Dodd, Sophie, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates' 3 Children: All About Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe, 2025-07-03, People, en
• 2025-04-27, Phoebe Gates launches Phia without her dad's fortune — Here's why Bill Gates stayed out of it, 2025-06-08, The Economic Times, 0013-0389
• Phoebe Gates Honored as 'Rising' Champion of Abortion Rights While Sister Jennifer Says She's 'So Proud', 2025-06-08, People, en
• Burack, Emily, 2025-06-27, Bill Gates Is in Venice for Jeff Bezos's Wedding with His Girlfriend Paula Hurd, 2025-07-03, Town & Country, en-US
• Chung, Gabrielle, February 10, 2023, Paula Hurd, Widow of Late Oracle CEO Is Dating Bill Gates, July 28, 2024, NBC New York, en-US
• February 4, 2025, Bill Gates confirms he has serious girlfriend, says of marriage to Melinda French Gates that he'd 'do it again', February 21, 2025, NBC News, en
• Bill Gates's Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks, Carr, Austin, May 21, 2021, Bloomberg News, July 25, 2021, July 23, 2021, live
• Flitter, Emily, Goldstein, Matthew, May 16, 2021, Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior, en-US, The New York Times, limited, May 22, 2021, December 28, 2021, 0362-4331
• Shephard, Alex, June 4, 2021, Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates, The New Republic, July 23, 2021, 0028-6583, July 23, 2021, live
• November 2021, Billionaire Bill Gates Uses Money to Shape the Media, May 19, 2022, Jacobin, en-US, November 27, 2021, live
• How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight, Politico, September 14, 2022, October 16, 2022, October 17, 2022, live
• Wakefield, Jane, How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies, June 6, 2020, BBC, November 7, 2022, November 7, 2022, live
• Wakabayashi, Daisuke, Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target, April 17, 2020, November 7, 2022, Alba, Davey, Tracy, Marc, The New York Times, Davey Alba, Marc Tracy, December 9, 2020, live
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• Sandler, Rachel, Bill Gates Explains Why He Doesn't Own Any Cryptocurrency, November 12, 2022, Forbes, en, November 12, 2022, live
• Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview, Goodell, Jeff, March 27, 2014, Rolling Stone, April 14, 2014, dead, May 9, 2014
• Bender, Eric, 1986-02-10, Microsoft stock goes public; sale marks firm's maturity, 2025-06-08, Computerworld, 170, 168, XX, 6
• Bill Gates tops US wealth list 15 years continuously, Wahba, Phil, September 17, 2008, November 6, 2008, December 18, 2008, live, Reuters
• Here's Why Jeff Bezos Is Not Truly The Richest Person In History, Kirsch, Noah, Forbes, January 11, 2018, January 11, 2018, live
• Bill Gates, Forbes, February 17, 2025
• New Jet Eases Travel Hassles For Bill Gates, The New York Times, October 27, 1997, May 20, 2021, Zuckerman, Laurence, September 5, 2012, live
• Bolger, Joe, May 5, 2006, I wish I was not the richest man in the world, says Bill Gates, The Times, March 31, 2008, September 23, 2008, dead
• Bill Gates Retakes World's Richest Title From Carlos Slim, Forbes, May 30, 2013, Cuadros, Alex, Harrison, Crayton, May 17, 2013, live, September 24, 2010
• The Economic Times, Bill Gates regains world's richest man title: Forbes, March 3, 2014, live, September 14, 2016
• Forbes Billionaires list, December 3, 2011, live
• Mexico's Carlos Slim Reclaims World's Richest Man Title From Bill Gates, Forbes, June 7, 2014, September 1, 2014, Estevez, Dolia, live, September 1, 2014
• The World's Billionaires, Forbes, November 30, 2014, live, November 29, 2014
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Is The Richest Person In The World-Again, Forbes, live, March 11, 2018
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• Bill Gates regains spot as world's richest person over Jeff Bezos, Feuerherd, Ben, November 16, 2019, New York Post, November 19, 2019, November 16, 2019, live
• Newsnight Interview, BBC News, August 23, 2017, January 24, 2014, live, August 23, 2017
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• Wasserman, Elizabeth, November 17, 1998, Gates deposition makes judge laugh in court, CNN, live, April 10, 2013, April 7, 2013
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• Carr, Austin, May 21, 2021, Bill Gates's Carefully Curated Geek Image Unravels in Two Weeks, Bloomberg, May 22, 2021, May 22, 2021, live
• Kelly, Heather, October 17, 2018, Paul Allen's battle with Bill Gates defined his legacy, CNN, May 22, 2021, May 22, 2021, live
• Spolsky, Joel, Joel Spolsky, June 16, 2006, My First BillG Review, 2025-11-22, Joel on Software, en-US
• Rensin, David, 1994, The Bill Gates Interview, Playboy
• Ballmer, Steve, October 9, 1997, Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Church Hill Club, dead, April 20, 2008, March 31, 2008, Microsoft
• Isaacson, Walter, January 13, 1997, The Gates Operating System, Time, dead, March 31, 2008, June 19, 2000
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• Smith, Matthew S., February 26, 2023, Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics, IEEE Spectrum, en, February 28, 2023, February 27, 2023, live
• Chapman, Glenn, June 27, 2008, Bill Gates Signs Off, Agence France-Presse, dead, June 30, 2008
• Herbold, Robert, The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies – And How to Overcome Them, 2004, Currency Doubleday
• Flitter, Emily, Stewart, James B., October 12, 2019, Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past, limited, January 1, 2022, The New York Times
• Norton, Tom, February 20, 2023, Fact Check: Did Bill Gates visit Epstein island 37 times?, November 14, 2023, Newsweek, en, November 14, 2023, live
• Safdar, Khadeeja, Glazer, Emily, May 21, 2023, Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder's Affair With Russian Bridge Player, en-US, The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2023, 0099-9660, May 22, 2023, live
• 2025-12-12, Bill Gates appears in newly released photos from Epstein estate, 2025-12-24, POLITICO, en
• New Epstein photos from House Democrats show high-profile figures, island plans and passports, 2025-12-24, BBC News, en-GB
• 2025-12-12, House Democrats release more photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, 2025-12-24, NBC News, en
• January 30, 2026, Bill Gates and Epstein: New Documents Reveal Allegations of Affairs and STDs, The New York Times
• January 2026, Bill Gates Denies Epstein Files Allegations of STD and Surreptitious Antibiotics, Business Insider
• Bill Gates Denies 'Completely False' Claims in Jeffrey Epstein Emails That He Contracted an STI from ‘Russian Girls’, Clamo, Flam, People, January 31, 2026, February 1, 2026
• Epstein makes unverified claim that Bill Gates contracted STD from extramarital sex and required antibiotics, Laura, Dern, CBS News, January 30, 2026, February 1, 2026
• Who is Boris Nikolic? Epstein-named executor is former Bill Gates adviser, Fox Business, 20 August 2019
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• Bill Gates says climate crisis won't cause 'humanity's demise' in call to shift focus to 'improving lives', 3 November 2025, The Guardian, 28 October 2025
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• Saunders, Forrest, Calls grow for U.S. to offer temporary protected status after Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, 3 November 2025, WTXL Tallahassee, 31 October 2025
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• Cowley, Jason, June 22, 2006, Heroes of our time – the top 50, New Statesman, dead, February 17, 2008, December 31, 2007
• September 26, 1999, Gates 'second only to Blair', BBC News, live, March 30, 2008, December 29, 2008
• November 4, 1996, Gates krijgt eredoctoraat Nijenrode, nl, Computable, January 1, 2022, December 31, 2021, live
• Honorary doctors at KTH, live, April 17, 2015, January 19, 2015, About KTH, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
• April 19, 2007, Bill Gates Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Tsinghua, dead, July 7, 2011, June 9, 2010, Tsinghua University
• Hughes, Gina, June 8, 2007, Bill Gates Gets Degree After 30 Years, Yahoo!, dead, February 18, 2008, December 27, 2007
• May 22, 2013, Karolinska Institutet Medicine hedersdoktorer 1910-2013, Honorary doctors of medicine at the Karolinska Institute 1910–2013, live, May 1, 2015, January 19, 2015, Karolinska Institutet, sv
• Anon, 2009, The Chancellor in Cambridge to confer Honorary Degrees, cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge, dead, August 20, 2009, August 17, 2009
• Anon, 2023, NAU to recognize four exceptional leaders with an honorary doctorate during spring commencement ceremonies, May 1, 2023, nau.edu, Northern Arizona University, June 9, 2023, live
• Gates, Bill, 2023, 5 things I wish I heard at the graduation I never had: The advice I shared with the class of 2023 is advice I could have used myself, gatesnotes.com, "The five things I wish I was told at the graduation I never attended: The first thing is, your life isn't a one-act play ...", May 16, 2023, August 4, 2023, live
• Blakely, Rhys, July 18, 2007, Gates how piracy worked for me in China, dead, June 11, 2011, April 26, 2010, The Times
• October 28, 1999, Bill Gates Speaks of Opportunities and Challenges Facing "Generation I", live, December 31, 2015, October 25, 2015, News Center
• Mr. William H. Gates, III, June 12, 2019, National Academy of Engineering, October 7, 2020, live
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• March 2, 2005, Knighthood for Microsoft's Gates, BBC News, live, February 18, 2008, March 9, 2008
• The 2006 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, live, April 2, 2014, April 2, 2014, The Tech Museum of Innovation
• Proclamation of the Award, dead, March 6, 2008, March 30, 2008, Diario Oficial de la Federación
• 2010, Bower Award for Business Leadership, live, July 26, 2010, June 30, 2013, The Franklin Institute
• September 15, 2010, Bill Gates receives Silver Buffalo Boy Scout award, BBC News, June 25, 2023, February 19, 2023, live
• December 5, 2012, The World's Most Powerful People, live, Forbes, December 30, 2012, June 30, 2013
• November 2, 2011, The World's Most Powerful People, dead, Forbes, November 3, 2011, June 30, 2013
• Padma Awards – Press Information Board of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, India, dead, January 28, 2015
• January 25, 2015, Padma awards 2015 announced: Advani, Amitabh among 104 awardees, Zee News, January 25, 2015, January 28, 2015, live
• November 16, 2016, President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, live, January 21, 2017, November 16, 2016, whitehouse.gov, National Archives
• Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis – Washington, D.C., April 21, 2017, Bill et Melinda Gates décorés de la Légion d'Honneur, Bill and Melinda Gates awarded the Legion of Honor, dead, March 15, 2018, March 15, 2018, France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., fr
• Xiang, Bo, November 27, 2017, Bill Gates elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering, Xinhua, June 10, 2019, December 17, 2017, live
• 2019 Hawking Fellowship, Time Magazine, October 7, 2019, August 15, 2023, May 7, 2024, live
• Youtube Streamy Awards, Crossover, December 15, 2021, December 13, 2021, live
• Bill Gates awarded Hilal-e-Pakistan by President Alvi, April 25, 2025, Brecorder.com, February 17, 2022
• PM Abiy Awards Ethiopia's Highest Honor to Bill Gates for 25 Years of Transformative Support, June 1, 2025
• Tinubu awards national honour to Bill Gates for fighting poverty in Africa, June 3, 2025, Lagos, Nigeria, Vanguard
• Bill Gates Goes to Sundance, Offers an Education, January 28, 2010, ABC News, January 23, 2010, live
• 'Bogus Bill' has a blast playing billionaire in 'The Social Network', Lindsay, Cohen, KVAL 13, October 25, 2015, dead, July 30, 2015
• American Genius, September 10, 2015, dead, September 10, 2015
• Moss, Caroline, In 1983, Steve Jobs Hosted Apple's Version Of 'The Dating Game' And Bill Gates Was A Contestant, November 21, 2021, Business Insider, November 24, 2013, October 22, 2021, live
• College of Chemistry Timeline, UC Berkeley, July 21, 2022, May 19, 2018, live
• Bernt Wahl, 1991, Bill Gates at BMUG meeting 1991 (c) Bernt Wahl, July 21, 2022, PSL Hall, , University of California, Berkeley, YouTube, July 21, 2022, live
• Bernt Wahl, 1991, Bill Gates at BMUG, July 21, 2022, PSL Hall, , University of California, Berkeley, YouTube, July 21, 2022, live
• Bernt Wahl, 1991, Bill Gates at Berkeley Macintosh Users Group, July 21, 2022, PSL Hall, , University of California, Berkeley, YouTube, July 21, 2022, live
• Bill Gates' TED talks, TED.com, July 2, 2020, March 16, 2014, live
• BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Bill Gates, BBC, March 29, 2016, live, March 20, 2016
• Gates in 'Frasier' guest spot, January 26, 2024, ZDNET, en, January 26, 2024, live
• Lerman, Rachel, Bill Gates to guest star on geeky 'The Big Bang Theory', February 25, 2019, The Seattle Times, March 27, 2018, February 26, 2019, live
• 'Big fan' Bill Gates makes appearance in 'Silicon Valley' series finale as HBO comedy logs off, December 9, 2019, May 8, 2020, December 9, 2019, live
• Amol Rajan Interviews: Bill Gates, BBC, February 20, 2023, February 20, 2023, live
• The Billionaires Who Made Our World: Bill Gates, Channel 4, February 20, 2023, February 20, 2023, live
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Primary sources

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• Gates, Bill. "Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement 2007". The Harvard Gazette 7 (2007).
• Kinsley, Michael, and Conor Clarke, Eds. Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
• National Museum of American History. "Bill Gates Interview".

Further reading

External links

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Forbes profile