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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.…
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business · American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955) · entrepreneur · programmer · computer scientist · bridge player · investor · philanthropist · writer · business magnate · technology entrepreneur · patron of the arts · also Bill Gates, William Henry "Bill" Gates III, William H. Gates III, William H. Gates, William Henry Gates, William Henry "Bill" Gates
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2026· 75 entries
MARCA: La hija de Bill Gates, Phoebe, desvela la mejor lección de su padre e insiste en triunfar sola: "Sin relación con mi apellido"
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NewsNation: Bill Gates’ daughter under scrutiny for alleged cookie stuffing scheme: Reports
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Published video “The art and science of listening”.
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MARCA: La pesadilla del resort de lujo de Bill Gates: propietarios exigen 100 millones de dólares
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Published video “The end of malaria”.
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Infobae: Hija de Bill Gates podría enfrentar acciones legales por presunto fraude digital con su startup
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MARCA: Bill Gates’ luxury resort nightmare: homeowners seek $100M as family faces fresh scrutiny
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Stock Titan: Bill Gates (NYSE: RSG) adds to Republic stake with August buys
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power-eng.com: Bill Gates' TerraPower hopes to accelerate Natrium reactor deployment with two new collaborations - power-eng.com
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eciks.org: Bill Gates’ Four Seasons Nevis resort sued for $100M over disrepair
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TradingView: Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to announce second nuclear plant this year - Bloomberg News
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inc.com: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Are Teaming Up With Big Pharma to Supercharge AI-Empowered Drug Discovery
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Yahoo Finance: Bill Gates's Four Seasons Nevis resort faces $100-million lawsuit over trash, fire ruins and years of alleged neglect
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Yahoo Finance: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Portfolios Have This One Non-AI Stock in Common
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moneywise.com: Bill Gates’s Caribbean resort hit with $100-million lawsuit over fire-ravaged buildings, trash and alleged neglect
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Yahoo Finance: Bill Gates' Daughter Faces Federal Wire Fraud Questions
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KCH FM: Bill Gates no pudo soltar ‘El proyecto Rosie’: leyó hasta las 3 a.m.
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Yahoo Finance: Bill Gates’ Foundation Cut $800 Million in Q2 From Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — Here’s Where It Put the Money Instead
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The Hill: Caribbean resort owned by Bill Gates being sued for $100M: Report
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Infobae: El libro que hizo trasnochar a Bill Gates: “no paré de leer hasta las 3 de la madrugada”
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Revista Merca2.0: Bill Gates, empresario: “El éxito es un pésimo maestro. Seduce a la gente inteligente haciéndoles creer que no pueden perder”
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we…' - a lesson
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OkDiario: Bill Gates sobre la IA y el empleo: «En 20 años habrá cambiado tanto que el marco actual no servirá»
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Stocktwits: Bill Gates’ Foundation Sells Last Of Microsoft
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OkDiario: Bill Gates nos recomienda cuatro libros y una serie para este verano
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Published video “This is one of the most important achievements in history, but few people even talk about it”.
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“substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company”
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“My work is very important to me. Within the family, we”
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“a great person, and that partnership that we had coming to an end is a source of great personal sadness”
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“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We”
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“Did I fence with Boies? ... I plead guilty ... rudeness to Boies in the first degree.”
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MARCA: Phoebe Gates: ¿su mayor polémica empresarial demuestra el peso de ser hija de Bill Gates?
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MARCA: Phoebe Gates: Does her biggest business controversy show the weight of being Bill Gates’ daughter?
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eltiempo.com: Hija de Bill Gates, Phoebe Gates, implicada en un fraude millonario: podría enfrentar 20 años de prisión
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GuruFocus: Bill Gates's Top Second Quarter 2026 Move: Trims Berkshire Hathaway Inc at a -3.57% Portfolio Impact
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Wide Open Country: Billionaire Tech Mogul Bill Gates' Daughter Risks 20-Year Prison Sentence For AI Scam
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El Universo: El imperio de Bill Gates en su hora más oscura: su hija Phoebe enfrenta hasta 20 años de prisión tras destaparse un fraude millonario
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Radiomundo En Perspectiva: "Poder Ejecutivo estudia colocar advertencias en bebidas alcohólicas" y "The Giving Pledge (El compromiso de dar), por Bill Gates y Warren Buffett"
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Page Six: Exclusive | Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe’s Stanford classmates say she wasn’t a good coder
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HOLA: Phoebe Gates scandal explained: The allegations rocking Bill Gates' youngest daughter
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Forbes México: El resort Four Seasons, propiedad de Bill Gates, es demandado por 100 mdd • Negocios
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ddnews.gov.in: Bill Gates arrives in Amaravati ahead of AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi
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En Segundos Panama: La primera ministra de Corea del Sur y Bill Gates abordan la cooperación en reactores SMR
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HOLA: Revelan los mensajes privados de la hija de Bill Gates en medio de un escándalo millonario
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Futurism: Bill Gates’ Daughter Clearly Has a Traitor Inside Her Startup Who’s Trying to Destroy Her
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Barstool Sports: Bill Gates’ 23 Year Old Daughter Phoebe Is Being Accused Of A ‘Cookie Stuffing’ Scandal At Her Shopping Startup Company And Could Face 20 Years In Prison
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조선일보: Bill Gates Collaborates with Korean Firms on SMR Projects
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El Economista: Meritocracia en tiempos de algoritmos: el escándalo de las comisiones digitales que acorrala a la hija menor de Bill Gates y su empresa Phia
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Revista Velvet: La hija de Bill Gates, bajo cuestionamientos por su startup
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La Nación: Un presunto fraude millonario complica a Phoebe Gates, la hija de Bill Gates, y podría llevarla a la cárcel
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GuruFocus: Bill Gates Discusses SMR Collaboration with South Korea's Prime Minister
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Forbes: Bill Gates-Owned Caribbean Resort Is In Disrepair, Suit Alleges
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조선일보: Prime Minister Han, Bill Gates Discuss SMR Cooperation
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Vietnam.vn: La hija de Bill Gates se enfrenta a 20 años de prisión.
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Published video “Not enough people know about this progress”.
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Published video “The quiet revolution that saved a billion lives”.
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Published video “Toilets save lives. Seriously.”.
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Published video “Vaccines are a lifesaving miracle”.
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Published video “How a bracelet is saving babies”.
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Published video “An inspiring trip to Rwanda”.
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Published video “What I’ve read, watched, and listened to lately”.
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Published video “How soccer is making lives better on and off the field ”.
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Published video “The best things I read, listened to, and watched this year”.
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Reported claimRated Vaccines do not cause autism, and an increase in diagnosis of autism does not mean it did not exist in the country before. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “There was no such thing as autism in Vietnam before a vaccine programme funded by Bill Gates.” Vaccines do not cause autism, and an increase in diagnosis of autism does not mean it did not exist in the country before..
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Snopes rated the claim “A photo circulating online in 2026 authentically shows a young Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor, standing with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.” Fake.
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Published video “We have a chance to end AIDS for good”.
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Public attention spiked: 19,989 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 4,293, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 19,989 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 4,282, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose foundation funds health research initiatives, is behind the proliferation of a tick that spreads alpha-gal syndrome, a condition that causes humans to develop a potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat and other products that contain the molecule alpha-…” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bill Gates developed, endorsed or is selling products such as "Brain Honey," "Mind Boost," "Memopezil" or similar remedies that can supposedly cure or reverse Alzheimer's disease, dementia and memory loss.” Scam.
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Snopes rated the claim “Tech billionaire and investor Bill Gates donated $50 million to a company developing "biologically modified" crops that have already received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A real 2006 photo shows Jeffrey Epstein poolside with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Jay-Z, Diddy, and Stephen Hawking.” AI Generated.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Emails written by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed he provided Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates drugs for an STD in order "to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls."” True.
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“pressure me to re-engage with him.”
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2025· 20 entries
“Climate change is one of the most serious challenges we face, and I’m committed as ever to supporting breakthroughs that will help the world reach net-zero. ”
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“U.S. funding for global health saves an estimated 3.3 million lives each year. From HIV treatment to malaria prevention, the impact is real and measurable: b-gat.es/3KP8yd6”
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“Affordable, reliable energy has often come at the cost of higher emissions. But geothermal can change that—delivering around-the-clock, low-cost electricity without contributing to climate change.”
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“In the U.S., tuberculosis deaths are rare. In some parts of Africa, they’re thousands of times more common. We have better tools than ever, but they remain out of reach for too many. What’s missing is equitable access.”
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“Learning how many kids were dying from diarrhea back in 1997—when I never worried about it with my own kids—led me to get involved in global health: gatesnot.es/4kNtugR”
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“The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence. ”
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“U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel: b-gat.es/4kjSUCG”
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“There’s never been a point in the past 25 years when more lives hung in the balance. gatesnot.es/4loJLJM”
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“A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...”
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“When the United States and other governments suddenly cut their aid budgets, I know for a fact that more children will die. Here’s the proof I’m showing Congress: gatesnot.es/4nnV8Us”
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Awarded Bintang Jasa Utama (2025).
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Singapore passes vaccine mandate days after Bill Gates’ visit.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Marc Cuban were caught by DOGE auditor Joe Barron for receiving $250 in quarterly payments from Biden's Treasury Department to the tune of $4 billion in total” Trolling.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Bill Gates proposed depopulation using forced vaccinations” 1.
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Reported claimRated False. The video is widely available online and Mr Gates' words have been misrepresented. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “A Bill Gates video promoting vaccines to reduce population growth was “scrubbed from the internet”.” False. The video is widely available online and Mr Gates' words have been misrepresented..
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Bill Gates attended Maha Kumbh Mela in India” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows Bill Gates at the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir in Uttar Pradesh during the Maha Kumbh” False.
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Bill Gates said in an interview with Raj Shammi that his children will inherit less than 1% of his wealth
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In Source Code, Gates wrote that he believed he was autistic
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Gates stated that his charitable donations have totalled $100 billion, of which $60 billion have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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2024· 3 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Bill Gates was indicted in the Netherlands for lying about vaccine safety” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Bill Gates and WHO call for forced vaccinations using military” False.
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Reported claimRated This isn’t true. The “EntoMilk” alternative was created years ago by another company, which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has confirmed it had no involvement in. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Bill Gates is seeking to introduce “maggot milk” into the general population’s food supply through a dairy alternative called “EntoMilk”.” This isn’t true. The “EntoMilk” alternative was created years ago by another company, which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has confirmed it had no involvement in..
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2023· 3 entries
Where he was bestowed an honorary doctorate
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“The big concern is about the generations yet to come when [AI] gets way smarter than it is right now. And if a person with Mal intent was using that, say, for a cyberattack, or to make a deep fake that makes a politician look like they're doing something awful, or even one of your relatives saying, okay, I've been kidnapped.”
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“So the idea of being able to explain something in a succinct form is such a cool thing, and it requires you to know a field so well.”
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2022· 2 entries
Which proposes a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion, under the auspices of the WHO
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Educational streamer Wondrium produced the series "Solving for Zero: The Search for Climate Innovation", inspired by the book
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2021· 7 entries
And the financial details have remained confidential
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Bill and Melinda Gates announced their decision to divorce after more than 27 years of marriage
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As a result of the 2020 United States presidential election which led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Gates said in February that a permanent ban of Trump "would be a shame" and would be an "extreme measur
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Offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world
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“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.”
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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
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With the announcement that he and Melinda were divorcing
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2020· 4 entries
On the topic, "Building Infrastructure for Resilience: What the COVID-19 Response Can Teach Us About How to Scale Financial Inclusion"
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2020).
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To hasten the development and evaluation of new and repurposed drugs and biologics to treat patients for COVID-19 and, as of February 2021, Gates expressed that he and Anthony Fauci frequently talk and collaborate on mat
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“s explanation for power outages is”
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2019· 3 entries
Citing interviews that suggested Gates's ties with Jeffrey Epstein were among her concerns
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In part from Gates's investment firm Cascade Investment
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And especially in the months leading up to the adoption of the bill
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2018· 1 entry
Gates distributed $600,000 through his foundation via UNICEF which is helping flood affected victims in Kerala, India
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2017).
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Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,591 times.
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Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,596 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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2015· 4 entries
Awarded Padma Bhushan (2015).
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Reported net worth: $79.2B (as of 2015).
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Wrote about the challenge of transitioning the world's energy system from one based primarily on fossil fuels to one based on sustainable energy sources
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“s energy system from one based primarily on fossil fuels to one based on sustainable energy sources. Global energy transitions have historically taken decades. He wrote,”
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2014· 3 entries
And became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds
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– it was produced from a sewage sludge treatment process called the Omni Processor
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Career landmark: Participated in commencement at the Stanford University (tournament / event).
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2013· 4 entries
Awarded Bambi Award (2013).
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Awarded Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award (2013).
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Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (2013).
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“His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me”
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2012· 1 entry
Allowed him to own up to 25% of the company, but this agreement was removed
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2011· 2 entries
Said, "If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring that energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I'd pick the energy thing
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“If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring that energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I”
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2010· 7 entries
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
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Earned Silver Buffalo Award (2010).
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Awarded J. William Fulbright Prize (2010).
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Awarded United Nations Population Award (2010).
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Awarded Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2010).
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Awarded Bower Award for Business Leadership (2010).
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And Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledged to give at least half their wealth to philanthropy
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Cross of Recognition (2009).
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Published “THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 4,693 times.
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Published “THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 4,698 times.
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Property taxes on the mansion were reported to be US$1
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Doctor at Karolinska Institutet (2008).
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“but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
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2007· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Tsinghua University (2007).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the Star of Romania (2007).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2007).
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Awarded Order of the Aztec Eagle (2007).
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Career landmark: Participated in commencement at the Harvard University (tournament / event).
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The Los Angeles Times criticized the foundation for investing its assets in companies that have been accused of worsening poverty, pollution and pharmaceutical firms that do not sell to developing countries
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (2006).
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Published “Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain” in Nature — cited 5,283 times.
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Published “Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain” in Nature — cited 5,289 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Published “One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications” in Advanced Materials — cited 8,073 times.
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology (2002).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Stockholm University (2002).
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2000· 3 entries
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 larges
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Transitioned to chief software architect, a position he held until 2008
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With the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, pove
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1999· 4 entries
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
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When his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion
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Has received numerous other honors and accolades, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded jointly to him and French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic work
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Gates donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the construction of a computer laboratory named the "William H
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership (1998).
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Gates rejected the need for regulation of the software industry in testimony before the United States Senate
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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
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1997· 1 entry
Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates flew coach (economy class) in commercial aircraft until 1997, when he bought a private jet.
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1995· 23 entries
“Niewiele mam czasu na oglądanie stron internetowych skierowanych przeciwko mnie. Nie mam jednak problemu z tym, jak jestem postrzegany.”
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“Cualquier sistema operativo sin un navegador web se quedará jodido fuera del negocio. ¿Debemos mejorar nuestro producto o cerrar el negocio?.”
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1996, 1998–2007, and 2009, maintaining the position until 2018, when Jeff Bezos surpassed his wealth
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“Na świecie panuje tendencja, by zwracać na mnie zbyt dużo uwagi.”
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“Creo que si le muestras a la gente los problemas y le muestras las soluciones se sentirán movidos a actuar.”
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“Nie brakuje na świecie ludzi, którzy mogą kupić tyle hamburgerów, ile zdołają zjeść, kupić tyle butów, ile zdołają znosić. W tym względzie nie jestem inny. Różni mnie tylko to, że nie gromadzę majątku, żeby zostawić go moim dzieciom. Jeżeli zechcą, niech przeżyją przygodę z budowaniem wszystkiego od początku. Warto, to ogromna frajda!”
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“If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”
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“Kobieta nigdy nie powinna potrzebować zgody swego partnera na ratowanie własnego życia.”
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“Jak się ma wielkie pieniądze, trzeba zrobić z nimi coś pożytecznego. Tu nie chodzi tylko o wypisywanie czeków. W biednych krajach życie warte jest sto dolarów. Razem z fundacją chcemy to zmienić.”
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“Gdyby ludzie zrozumieli jak otrzymywać patenty w momencie, kiedy większość dzisiejszych pomysłów była wymyślana i zrobiliby to, dzisiejszy przemysł stanąłby w miejscu. Rozwiązaniem jest wymiana patentowa z innymi dużymi firmami oraz patentowanie najwięcej jak tylko zdołamy.”
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“Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.”
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“Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
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“W dziedzinie bitów komputerowych można wszystko oddzielić od siebie. Można przecież sobie odrąbać rękę lub uciąć nogę.”
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“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time. (ang.)”
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“Opis: o spocie Apple dotyczącym bezpieczeństwa.”
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“Opis: o kampanii firmy Apple przedstawiającej dwie postacie symbolizujące Maca i PC.”
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“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.”
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“There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.”
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“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”
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“Żyje się raz i nigdy nie ma okazji do ponownego sprawdzenia tego czy tamtego. Miałem wielkie szczęście, że pracowałem z Ballmerem i Allenem, dwiema niesamowitymi osobami. W komputerach dostrzegłem to, czego inni nie potrafili zobaczyć. I zabrałem się do nich w odpowiedniej chwili. Wiele czytałem jako dziecko, ciężko pracowałem nad sobą. Kto wie, jaki wpływ miały te czynniki?”
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“Opis: Gates postanowił odejść z biznesu i wznowić studia na Harvardzie.”
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“Si algo ha de matar a más de 10 millones de personas en las próximas décadas, probablemente será un virus muy infeccioso más que una guerra. No misiles, sino microbios. En parte la razón de esto es que se han invertido enormes cantidades en disuasivos nucleares. Pero en cambio, muy poco en sistemas para detener epidemias. No estamos preparados para la próxima epidemia.”
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“It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.”
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1994).
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Awarded Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1994).
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At the 12th hole of the Jack Nicklaus–designed Manele Golf Course on the Hawaiian Island of Lānaʻi
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1992· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1992).
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1989· 1 entry
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
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1987· 2 entries
At a trade fair in New York, Gates met Melinda French, then a recent graduate of Duke University who had begun working at Microsoft around four months earlier
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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
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1986· 1 entry
And the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31
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1985· 3 entries
In an attempt to fend off competition from Apple's Macintosh GUI, which had captivated consumers with its simplicity and ease of use
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“Windows 1.0 is borrowed from Macintosh 128K”
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When Gates announced Microsoft Excel: "Bill Gates likes the program, not because it's going to make him a lot of money (although I'm sure it will do that), but because it's a neat hack
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1983· 1 entry
“Bill Gates replied to Steve Jobs about "Windows 1.0 is borrowed from Macintosh 128K" (November 1983)”
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1981· 1 entry
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
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1975· 3 entries
The MITS Altair 8800 was released based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company
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Studied at Harvard College (1973–1975).
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (1975–2000).
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1973· 2 entries
Enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft
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Studied at Lakeside School (1968–1973).
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1972· 1 entry
Served as a congressional page in the House of Representatives
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1971· 1 entry
A Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return
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1955· 2 entries
Born 1955-10-28.
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In Seattle, Washington, as the only son of Bill Gates Sr
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