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16 hours ago · Bill Gates is one of the best-known billionaires in the world. The Microsoft ( MSFT 1.47% ) founder became the first centibillionaire in 1999, decades before anyone else reached that level of wealth.
16 hours ago · Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and donated some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create the "William H. Gates Foundation". In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for ...
16 hours ago · Most of his donations go to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and reduce poverty around the world. Gates isn't the only centibiliionaire funding the nonprofit.
5 hours ago · Most of his donations go to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and reduce poverty around the world. Gates isn't the only centibiliionaire funding the nonprofit. Warren Buffett has also pledged donations to the foundation since 2006, but those contributions will end after his death. Buffett also served as a ...
16 hours ago · Gates used this way of thinking about money for many years, and it (obviously) worked really well for him. From 1995 to 2017, Gates was called the richest person in the world 18 times!
