I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard University during his junior year — but in his new memoir, Source Code, he's ...

Before Paul Graham defined "founder mode," Bill Gates embodied a similar approach when cofounding Microsoft in the 1970s.

My Beginnings," Bill Gates explained the different approaches he took when applying to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.

Hazel Nut loves to sing and dance in her polka-dot pants, but her family doesn’t seem to have the same interests or groove as her. That is, until Hazel Nut calls her grandmother and the two have a ...

Bill Gates talks about Microsoft's 50th anniversary, parallels between AI and the early days of the PC, and where he sees the ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Monday disclosed that he has donated $100 billion to charitable causes. What Happened: Despite Gates’ extensive philanthropic efforts, he remains the world's ...

Throughout his life, Bill Gates has dedicated himself to learning about a wide variety of topics — part of a trait that he ...

"I wasn't going to hold back from saying that it wasn't a straight path for my parents to figure out what to do," he tells PEOPLE Ian Allen/Gates Notes As an adult, Bill Gates says he looks back ...

SEE MORE Bill Gates, left, chats with Bill Nye at the Moore Theater in Seattle on Thursday night. An image of the 1975 Popular Electronics magazine that inspired the creation of Microsoft is ...