Bill Gates had a question for the employees of his charitable foundation, which he recently announced will spend $200 billion ...

If he’d never given away a dime or sold a share of the software giant, Gates would have nearly 10 times more leftover to give away.

Elon Musk may top today's rich list, but if Bill Gates had diamond-handed his Microsoft stock instead of giving most of it away, we'd be looking at a very different kind of billionaire. A trillionaire ...

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When Bill and Melinda French Gates created the Gates Foundation in 2000, they had planned for the organization to continue its work, using their remaining fortune, for several decades after they died.

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates has announced he plans to donate almost his entire fortune to the Gates Foundation – which is earmarked to close down in 2045. According to the Indep ...

Bill Gates announced plans ... estimated $200 billion fortune. The Microsoft founder, 69, said he wants to distribute his money within the next 20 years before closing the Gates Foundation that ...

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which as The New York Times notes is decades before originally intended. The Gates Foundation has funded several causes since it was founded in the year 2005 by Bill and his then-wife Melinda ...