Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

• With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation.
• The foundation works to improve global health and to create equal opportunity for people around the globe.
• Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft — he owns just over 1% of shares — and invested in a mix of stocks and other assets.
• He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he founded with Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975.
• In early 2019, Gates responded to the public backlash against billionaires by reiterating his support for a higher estate tax.
• To date, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.