Bill Gates
American business magnate and co-founder of Microsoft
Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He married Melinda French in 1994 and they have three children. Today, Bill and Melinda Gates co-chair the charitable foundation bearing their names and are working together to give their wealth back to society.
Bill grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. His dad, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney and one of the co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
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See also: Microsoft - American multinational technology company.
Details last updated 30-Jan-2020
Bill Gates Creations
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
The book about pandemics and how to prevent it written by Bill Gates
Bill Gates News
$30 million venture philanthropy fund to tackle Alzheimer's
Business Insider - 17-Jul-2018
$ 80 million will be directed towards Alzheimer’s research and drug discovery
Read more...Infectious disease outbreak could kill 30 million people in a year
Business Insider - 02-Feb-2018
Global Health Security Agenda program is coming ot an end. Bill Gates has described an emergent ...
Read more...Gates Invests $50M in Big Data for Alzheimer’s
HealthITAnalytics - 14-Nov-2017
Hoping to accelerate precision medicine research into a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Will help ...
Read more...Bill Gates thinks a pandemic could kill 30 million people
Business Insider - 17-Sep-2017
Bill and Melinda Gates in their recently released "Goalkeepers" report state that they see a pand...
Read more...Bill Gates warns tens of millions could be killed by bio-terrorism
Guardian - 18-Feb-2017
The next epidemic could be a genetically engineered version of the smallpox virus or a deadly str...
Read more...We are vulnerable to flu epidemic in next decade
BBC - 30-Dec-2016
Bill Gates says the world is a bit vulnerable right now. Ebola and Zika crises showed the system...
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