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For other people with the same name, see <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Bill Gates (disambiguation)">Bill Gates (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style>William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding the software company <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> with his childhood friend <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a>. He later held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and <a href="/wiki/Chief_software_architect" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief software architect">chief software architect</a> of the company. Gates was also its largest individual <a href="/wiki/Shareholder" title="Shareholder">shareholder</a> until May 2014.<a href="#cite_note-3">[a]</a> He was a pioneer of the <a href="/wiki/Microcomputer_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Microcomputer revolution">microcomputer revolution</a> of the 1970s and 1980s. <table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Bill Gates</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Gates,_September_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bill Gates in 2024" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg/220px-Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg/330px-Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg/440px-Bill_Gates%2C_September_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="577" data-file-height="769"></a><div class="infobox-caption">Gates in 2024</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">William Henry Gates III</div> (1955-10-28) October 28, 1955 (age 69) <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (dropped out)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Businessman</li><li>philanthropist</li><li>computer programmer</li><li>writer</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1972–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Pioneer of the <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal computer revolution">personal computer revolution</a> with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a></div></li> <li><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Co-founding of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gates_Foundation" title="Gates Foundation">Gates Foundation</a></div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data title"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; font-style:italic; font-weight:normal;"><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1150407293">body:not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .ifmobile>.mobile{display:none}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .ifmobile>.nomobile{display:inherit;display:initial}</style></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Gates_Foundation" title="Gates Foundation">Gates Foundation</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Chairman and founder of <a href="/wiki/Cascade_Investment" title="Cascade Investment">Cascade Investment</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Chairman and founder of <a href="/wiki/Branded_Entertainment_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Branded Entertainment Network">Branded Entertainment Network</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Chairman and co-founder of <a href="/wiki/TerraPower" title="TerraPower">TerraPower</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Founder of <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Energy" title="Breakthrough Energy">Breakthrough Energy</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Founder of <a href="/wiki/Gates_Ventures" title="Gates Ventures">Gates Ventures</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> Technology advisor of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Melinda_French_Gates" title="Melinda French Gates">Melinda French</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1994; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2021)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates_Sr." title="Bill Gates Sr.">Bill Gates Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates" title="Mary Maxwell Gates">Mary Maxwell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist" style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun" title="Order of the Rising Sun">Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilal-e-Pakistan" title="Hilal-e-Pakistan">Hilal-e-Pakistan</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gatesnotes.com">gatesnotes.com</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="William H. 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established in 2000. He stepped down as chairman of the Microsoft board in February 2014 and assumed the role of technology adviser to support newly appointed CEO <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a>. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway" title="Berkshire Hathaway">Berkshire Hathaway</a> to focus on his philanthropic efforts on <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>, <a href="/wiki/Global_health" title="Global health">global health</a> and development, and education. Gates was born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in <a href="/wiki/Albuquerque,_New_Mexico" title="Albuquerque, New Mexico">Albuquerque, New Mexico</a>. Gates led the company as its chairman and chief executive officer until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer">Steve Ballmer</a>, but he remained chairman of the board of directors and became chief software architect. During the late 1990s, he was <a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft" title="Criticism of Microsoft">criticized for his business tactics</a>, which were considered <a href="/wiki/Anti-competitive" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-competitive">anti-competitive</a>. Since 1987, Gates has been included in the <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> <a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires" title="The World's Billionaires">list of the world's top billionaires</a>. From 1995 to 2017, he held the title of the wealthiest person in the world every year except in 2008 and from 2010 to 2013. In 1999, he became the first ever centibillionaire when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued other business and philanthropic endeavors. He is the founder and chairman of several companies, including <a href="/wiki/Branded_Entertainment_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Branded Entertainment Network">BEN</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cascade_Investment" title="Cascade Investment">Cascade Investment</a>, <a href="/wiki/TerraPower" title="TerraPower">TerraPower</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gates_Ventures" title="Gates Ventures">Gates Ventures</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Energy" title="Breakthrough Energy">Breakthrough Energy</a>. He has donated to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Private_foundation" title="Private foundation">private charity</a>. Through the foundation, he led an early 21st century <a href="/wiki/Vaccination" title="Vaccination">vaccination</a> campaign that significantly contributed to the eradication of the wild <a href="/wiki/Poliovirus" title="Poliovirus">poliovirus</a> in Africa. In 2010, Gates and <a href="/wiki/Warren_Buffett" title="Warren Buffett">Warren Buffett</a> founded <a href="/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge" title="The Giving Pledge">the Giving Pledge</a>, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth towards philanthropy. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_life_and_education">1 Early life and education</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Microsoft">2 Microsoft</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#BASIC">2.1 BASIC</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#IBM_partnership">2.2 IBM partnership</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Windows">2.3 Windows</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Management_style">2.4 Management style</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Post-Microsoft">3 Post-Microsoft</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Business_ventures_and_investments">3.1 Business ventures and investments</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Climate_change_and_energy">4 Climate change and energy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Political_positions">5 Political positions</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Regulation_of_the_software_industry">5.1 Regulation of the software industry</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Donald_Trump_Facebook_ban">5.2 Donald Trump Facebook ban</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Patents_for_COVID-19_vaccines">5.3 Patents for COVID-19 vaccines</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Cryptocurrencies">5.4 Cryptocurrencies</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Philanthropy">6 Philanthropy</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation">6.1 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Personal_donations">6.2 Personal donations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Charity_sports_events">6.3 Charity sports events</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Books">7 Books</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Personal_life">8 Personal life</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Marriage,_family_and_divorce">8.1 Marriage, family and divorce</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Public_image">8.2 Public image</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Religious_views">8.3 Religious views</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Wealth">8.4 Wealth</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Controversies">9 Controversies</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Antitrust_litigation">9.1 Antitrust litigation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Treatment_of_colleagues_and_employees">9.2 Treatment of colleagues and employees</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#Relationship_with_Jeffrey_Epstein">9.3 Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#Recognition">10 Recognition</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30"><a href="#Depiction_in_media">11 Depiction in media</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#Documentary_films_about_Gates">11.1 Documentary films about Gates</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Feature_films">11.2 Feature films</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Video_and_film_clips">11.3 Video and film clips</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="#Radio">11.4 Radio</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Television">11.5 Television</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36"><a href="#Books_2">12 Books</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-37"><a href="#See_also">13 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="#Notes">14 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-39"><a href="#References">15 References</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Bibliography">15.1 Bibliography</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-41"><a href="#Primary_sources">15.2 Primary sources</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-42"><a href="#Further_reading">16 Further reading</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-43"><a href="#External_links">17 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington,<a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a> as the only son of <a href="/wiki/William_H._Gates_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Gates Sr.">William H. Gates Sr.</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[b]</a> (1925–2020) and his first wife, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates" title="Mary Maxwell Gates">Mary Maxwell Gates</a> (1929–1994).<a href="#cite_note-mary-maxwell-gates-obit-6">[4]</a> His ancestry includes <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>/<a href="/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans" title="Scotch-Irish Americans">Scots-Irish</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[5]</a> His father was a prominent <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a>, and his mother served on the board of directors of <a href="/wiki/First_Interstate_BancSystem" title="First Interstate BancSystem">First Interstate BancSystem</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_Way_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United Way of America">United Way of America</a>. Gates's maternal grandfather J. W. Maxwell was a national bank president. Gates also has an older sister Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199415-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> The family lived in the <a href="/wiki/Sand_Point,_Seattle" title="Sand Point, Seattle">Sand Point</a> area of Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare <a href="/wiki/Tornado" title="Tornado">tornado</a> when Gates was 7.<a href="#cite_note-10">[8]</a> When Gates was young his parents wanted him to pursue a career in law.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199447-11">[9]</a> During his childhood, his family regularly attended a church of the <a href="/wiki/Congregational_Christian_Churches" title="Congregational Christian Churches">Congregational Christian Churches</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformed_Churches_in_America" title="Protestant Reformed Churches in America">Protestant Reformed</a> denomination.<a href="#cite_note-Congregational_1-12">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Congregational_2-13">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-Congregational_3-14">[12]</a> Gates was small for his age and was bullied as a child.<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was <a href="/wiki/Hearts_(card_game)" title="Hearts (card game)">hearts</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pickleball" title="Pickleball">pickleball</a> or swimming to the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing".<a href="#cite_note-nerds2-15">[13]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg/220px-Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="811"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 149px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg/220px-Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="149" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg/330px-Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg/440px-Paul_Allen_and_Bill_Gates_at_Lakeside_School_in_1970.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates (right) with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a> seated at <a href="/wiki/Teletype_Model_33" title="Teletype Model 33">Teletype Model 33</a> ASR terminals in <a href="/wiki/Lakeside_School_(Seattle)" title="Lakeside School (Seattle)">Lakeside School</a>, 1970</figcaption></figure> At age 13, he enrolled in the private <a href="/wiki/Lakeside_School_(Seattle,_Washington)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lakeside School (Seattle, Washington)">Lakeside prep school</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199424-16">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers' Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's <a href="/wiki/Rummage_sale" class="mw-redirect" title="Rummage sale">rummage sale</a> to buy a <a href="/wiki/Teletype_Model_33" title="Teletype Model 33">Teletype Model 33</a> ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> (GE) computer for the students.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199427-18">[16]</a> Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in <a href="/wiki/BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a>, and he was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of <a href="/wiki/Tic-tac-toe" title="Tic-tac-toe">tic-tac-toe</a> that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199612-19">[17]</a> After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, Gates and other students sought time on systems including <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">DEC</a> <a href="/wiki/Programmed_Data_Processor" title="Programmed Data Processor">PDP</a> minicomputers. One of these systems was a <a href="/wiki/PDP-10" title="PDP-10">PDP-10</a> belonging to <a href="/wiki/Computer_Center_Corporation" title="Computer Center Corporation">Computer Center Corporation</a> (CCC) which banned Gates, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ric_Weiland" title="Ric Weiland">Ric Weiland</a>, and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans for the summer after it caught them exploiting <a href="/wiki/Bug_(engineering)" title="Bug (engineering)">bugs</a> in the operating system to obtain free computer time.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199434-20">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> The four students formed the Lakeside Programmers Club to make money.<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> At the end of the ban, they offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for extra computer time. Rather than using the system remotely via <a href="/wiki/Teleprinter" title="Teleprinter">Teletype</a>, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> for various programs that ran on the system, including <a href="/wiki/Fortran" title="Fortran">Fortran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)" title="Lisp (programming language)">Lisp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Machine_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine language">machine language</a>. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970 when the company went out of business. The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school's class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return. The duo worked diligently in order to have the program ready for their senior year. Towards the end of their junior year, Evans was killed in a mountain climbing accident, which Gates described as one of the saddest days of his life. He then turned to Allen who helped him finish the system for Lakeside.<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called <a href="/wiki/Traf-O-Data" title="Traf-O-Data">Traf-O-Data</a> to make traffic counters based on the <a href="/wiki/Intel_8008" title="Intel 8008">Intel 8008</a> processor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199614-21">[19]</a> In 1972, he served as a <a href="/wiki/Congressional_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Congressional page">congressional page</a> in the House of Representatives.<a href="#cite_note-Schuman2008-22">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-Sims2018-23">[21]</a> He was a <a href="/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program" title="National Merit Scholarship Program">national merit scholar</a> when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973.<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a> He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the <a href="/wiki/SAT" title="SAT">Scholastic Aptitude Tests</a> (SAT) and enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College">Harvard College</a> in the autumn of 1973.<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199615-26">[24]</a> He did not stay at Harvard long enough to choose a concentration, but took mathematics (including <a href="/wiki/Math_55" title="Math 55">Math 55</a>) and graduate level computer science courses.<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> While at Harvard, he met fellow student and future Microsoft CEO <a href="/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer">Steve Ballmer</a>. Gates left Harvard after two years while Ballmer stayed and graduated <a href="/wiki/Magna_cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Magna cum laude">magna cum laude</a>. Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> Gates devised an algorithm for <a href="/wiki/Pancake_sorting" title="Pancake sorting">pancake sorting</a> as a solution to one of a series of <a href="/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics" title="List of unsolved problems in mathematics">unsolved problems</a><a href="#cite_note-Kestenbaum2008-30">[28]</a> presented in a <a href="/wiki/Combinatorics" title="Combinatorics">combinatorics</a> class by professor <a href="/wiki/Harry_R._Lewis" title="Harry R. Lewis">Harry Lewis</a>. His solution held the record as the fastest version for over 30 years, and its successor is faster by only 2%.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> His solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist <a href="/wiki/Christos_Papadimitriou" title="Christos Papadimitriou">Christos Papadimitriou</a>.<a href="#cite_note-gatespapadimitriou-32">[30]</a> Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen and joined him at <a href="/wiki/Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a> during the summer of 1974.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallace199359-33">[31]</a> In 1975, the <a href="/wiki/MITS_Altair_8800" class="mw-redirect" title="MITS Altair 8800">MITS Altair 8800</a> was released based on the <a href="/wiki/Intel_8080_CPU" class="mw-redirect" title="Intel 8080 CPU">Intel 8080 CPU</a>, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199618-34">[32]</a> Gates dropped out of Harvard that same year. His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199619-35">[33]</a> He explained his decision to leave Harvard: "if things hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. I was officially on leave."<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Microsoft">Microsoft</h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Microsoft" title="History of Microsoft">History of Microsoft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft#History" title="Microsoft">Microsoft § History</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="BASIC">BASIC</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Altair_8800_Computer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Altair_8800_Computer.jpg/220px-Altair_8800_Computer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="199" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1495" data-file-height="1349"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 199px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Altair_8800_Computer.jpg/220px-Altair_8800_Computer.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="199" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Altair_8800_Computer.jpg/330px-Altair_8800_Computer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Altair_8800_Computer.jpg/440px-Altair_8800_Computer.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>MITS <a href="/wiki/Altair_8800" title="Altair 8800">Altair 8800</a> Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system whose first programming language was Microsoft's founding product, <a href="/wiki/Altair_BASIC" title="Altair BASIC">Altair BASIC</a></figcaption></figure> Gates read the January 1975 issue of <a href="/wiki/Popular_Electronics" title="Popular Electronics">Popular Electronics</a> which demonstrated the <a href="/wiki/Altair_8800" title="Altair 8800">Altair 8800</a>, and contacted <a href="/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems" title="Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems">Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems</a> (MITS) to inform them that he and others were working on a <a href="/wiki/BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a> interpreter for the platform.<a href="#cite_note-keyevents-37">[35]</a> In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president <a href="/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computers)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ed Roberts (computers)">Ed Roberts</a> agreed to meet them for a demonstration, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair <a href="/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulator</a> that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration was held at MITS's offices in <a href="/wiki/Albuquerque,_New_Mexico" title="Albuquerque, New Mexico">Albuquerque, New Mexico</a>; it was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as <a href="/wiki/Altair_BASIC" title="Altair BASIC">Altair BASIC</a>. MITS hired Allen,<a href="#cite_note-thocp1-38">[36]</a> and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with him at MITS in November 1975. Allen named their partnership "Micro-Soft", a combination of "microcomputer" and "software", and their first office was in Albuquerque. The first employee Gates and Allen hired was their high school collaborator <a href="/wiki/Ric_Weiland" title="Ric Weiland">Ric Weiland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-thocp1-38">[36]</a> They dropped the hyphen within a year and officially registered the trade name "<a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>" with the Secretary of the State of New Mexico on November 26, 1976.<a href="#cite_note-thocp1-38">[36]</a> Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. Microsoft's Altair BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked out and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, he wrote <a href="/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists" title="An Open Letter to Hobbyists">An Open Letter to Hobbyists</a> in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90% of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for any professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes199481-39">[37]</a> This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.<a href="#cite_note-thocp1-38">[36]</a> The company moved from Albuquerque to <a href="/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington" title="Bellevue, Washington">Bellevue, Washington</a> on January 1, 1979.<a href="#cite_note-keyevents-37">[35]</a> Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. As the company grew, he transitioned into a manager role, then an executive.<a href="#cite_note-waterloo-40">[38]</a> <a href="/wiki/DONKEY.BAS" title="DONKEY.BAS">DONKEY.BAS</a>, is a <a href="/wiki/Computer_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer game">computer game</a> written in 1981 and included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. It is a <a href="/wiki/Driving_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Driving game">driving game</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/Player_character" title="Player character">player</a> must avoid hitting <a href="/wiki/Donkey" title="Donkey">donkeys</a>. The game was written by Gates and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Konzen" title="Neil Konzen">Neil Konzen</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="IBM_partnership">IBM partnership</h3></div> <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its upcoming personal computer, the <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC">IBM PC</a>,<a href="#cite_note-bunnell1982febmar-43">[41]</a> after Gates's mother mentioned Microsoft to <a href="/wiki/John_Opel" class="mw-redirect" title="John Opel">John Opel</a>, IBM's then <a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a>.<a href="#cite_note-mary-maxwell-gates-obit-6">[4]</a> IBM first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. IBM's representatives also mentioned that they needed an operating system, and Gates referred them to <a href="/wiki/Digital_Research" title="Digital Research">Digital Research</a> (DRI), makers of the widely used <a href="/wiki/CP/M" title="CP/M">CP/M</a> operating system.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system. A few weeks later, Gates and Allen proposed using <a href="/wiki/86-DOS" title="86-DOS">86-DOS</a>, an operating system similar to CP/M, that <a href="/wiki/Tim_Paterson" title="Tim Paterson">Tim Paterson</a> of <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products" title="Seattle Computer Products">Seattle Computer Products</a> (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC.<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> Microsoft made a deal with SCP to be the exclusive licensing agent of 86-DOS, and later the full owner. Microsoft employed Paterson to adapt the operating system for the PC<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> and delivered it to IBM as <a href="/wiki/PC_DOS" class="mw-redirect" title="PC DOS">PC DOS</a> for a one-time fee of $50,000.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199654-47">[45]</a> The contract itself only earned Microsoft a relatively small fee. It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM's adoption of their operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft's transformation from a small business to the leading software company in the world. Gates had not offered to transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM because he believed that other personal computer makers would clone IBM's PC hardware.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGates199654-47">[45]</a> They did, making the IBM-compatible PC, running DOS, a de facto standard. The sales of <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> (the version of DOS sold to customers other than IBM) made Microsoft a major player in the industry.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEManes1994193-48">[46]</a> The press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the IBM PC. <a href="/wiki/PC_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="PC Magazine">PC Magazine</a> asked if Gates was "the man behind the machine?".<a href="#cite_note-bunnell1982febmar-43">[41]</a> Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates the president and chairman of the board, with Paul Allen as vice president and vice chairman. In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a <a href="/wiki/Hodgkin_lymphoma" title="Hodgkin lymphoma">Hodgkin lymphoma</a> diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity.<a href="#cite_note-keyevents-37">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-before_microsoft-49">[47]</a> Later in the decade, Gates repaired his relationship with Allen and together the two donated millions to their childhood school Lakeside.<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-9">[7]</a> They remained friends until Allen's death in October 2018.<a href="#cite_note-Gates_Mourns_Allen-50">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Windows">Windows</h3></div> Microsoft and Gates launched their first retail version of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> on November 20, 1985, in an attempt to fend off competition from <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Macintosh</a> <a href="/wiki/GUI" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI">GUI</a>, which had captivated consumers with its simplicity and ease of use.<a href="#cite_note-ahmwbi-51">[49]</a> In August 1986, the company struck a deal with <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> to develop a separate operating system called <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a>. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> The operating system <a href="/wiki/Windows_9x#Windows_prior_to_95" title="Windows 9x">grew out of DOS</a> in an organic fashion over a decade until <a href="/wiki/Windows_95" title="Windows 95">Windows 95</a>, which hid the DOS prompt by default. <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> was released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO.<a href="#cite_note-cnettop-53">[51]</a> <a href="/wiki/Windows_8.1" title="Windows 8.1">Windows 8.1</a> was the last version of the OS released before Gates left the chair of the firm to <a href="/wiki/John_W._Thompson" title="John W. Thompson">John W. Thompson</a> on February 5, 2014.<a href="#cite_note-chairex-54">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Management_style">Management style</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/187px-Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="187" height="280" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2731" data-file-height="4096"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 187px;height: 280px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/187px-Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" data-width="187" data-height="280" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/280px-Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/373px-Bill_Gates_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates delivers a speech at the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> in Switzerland, January 2008.</figcaption></figure> During Microsoft's early years, Gates was an active software developer, particularly in the company's programming language products, but his primary role in most of the company's history was as a manager and executive. He has not officially been on a development team since working on the <a href="/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100" title="TRS-80 Model 100">TRS-80 Model 100</a>,<a href="#cite_note-allison1993-55">[53]</a> but he wrote code that shipped with the company's products as late as 1989.<a href="#cite_note-pdc97-56">[54]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle" title="Jerry Pournelle">Jerry Pournelle</a> wrote in 1985 when Gates announced <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a>: "Bill Gates likes the program, not because it's going to make him a lot of money (although I'm sure it will do that), but because it's a <a href="/wiki/Hack_(programmer_subculture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hack (programmer subculture)">neat hack</a>."<a href="#cite_note-pournelle198509-57">[55]</a> During the late 1990s, he was <a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft" title="Criticism of Microsoft">criticized for his business tactics</a>, which were considered <a href="/wiki/Anti-competitive" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-competitive">anti-competitive</a>. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesinski200696Manes1994459-58">[56]</a> In June 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his role at Microsoft to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He gradually divided his responsibilities between two successors when he placed <a href="/wiki/Ray_Ozzie" title="Ray Ozzie">Ray Ozzie</a> in charge of management and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Mundie" title="Craig Mundie">Craig Mundie</a> in charge of long-term product strategy.<a href="#cite_note-mscorpnews-59">[57]</a> The process took two years to fully transfer his duties to Ozzie and Mundie, and was completed on June 27, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Post-Microsoft">Post-Microsoft</h2></div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft, Gates has continued his philanthropy and works on other projects. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 to become technology advisor at the firm to support newly appointed CEO <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a>.<a href="#cite_note-The_Verge-61">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in an interview that was published in the March 2014 issue of <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> magazine. In the interview, he provided his perspective on climate change, his charitable activities, various tech companies and people involved in them, and the state of America. In response to a question about his greatest fear when he looks 50 years into the future, Gates stated: "there'll be some really bad things that'll happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them on the scale of, say, a million people that you didn't expect to die from a <a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">pandemic</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bioterrorism" title="Bioterrorism">bioterrorism</a>." Gates also identified innovation as the "real driver of progress" and pronounced that "America's way better today than it's ever been."<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> Gates has often expressed concern about the potential harms of <a href="/wiki/Superintelligence" title="Superintelligence">superintelligence</a>; in a <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> "ask me anything", he stated that: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a> and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned.<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[65]</a></blockquote> In an interview that was held at the <a href="/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)">TED conference</a> in March 2015, with <a href="/wiki/Baidu" title="Baidu">Baidu</a> co-founder and CEO, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Li" title="Robin Li">Robin Li</a>, Gates said he would "highly recommend" <a href="/wiki/Nick_Bostrom" title="Nick Bostrom">Nick Bostrom</a>'s recent work, <a href="/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies" title="Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies">Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a> During the conference, Gates warned that the world was not prepared for the next pandemic, a situation that would come to pass in late 2019 when the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> began.<a href="#cite_note-69">[67]</a> In March 2018, Gates met at his home in Seattle with <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman" title="Mohammed bin Salman">Mohammed bin Salman</a>, the crown prince and de facto ruler of <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> to discuss investment opportunities for <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Vision_2030" title="Saudi Vision 2030">Saudi Vision 2030</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> In June 2019, Gates admitted that losing the <a href="/wiki/Mobile_operating_system" title="Mobile operating system">mobile operating system</a> race to <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> was his biggest mistake. He stated that it was within their <a href="/wiki/Skill_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Skill set">skill set</a> of being the dominant player, but partially blames the <a href="/wiki/Antitrust_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Antitrust case">antitrust</a> litigation during the time.<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> That same year, Gates became an advisory board member of the <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.#Bloomberg_New_Economy_Forum" title="Bloomberg L.P.">Bloomberg New Economy Forum</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[71]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_(53376969086).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg/220px-Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="6616" data-file-height="4411"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg/220px-Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg/330px-Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg/440px-Foreign_Secretary_David_Cameron_attends_COP28_%2853376969086%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates and UK Foreign Secretary <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> at <a href="/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference">COP28</a> in Dubai on December 1, 2023</figcaption></figure> In March 2020, Microsoft announced Gates would be leaving his board positions at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate himself to philanthropic endeavors such as climate change, global health and development, and education.<a href="#cite_note-74">[72]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported in May 2021 that Gates stepped down before Microsoft's board finished its investigation into Gates's alleged inappropriate sexual relationship with a Microsoft employee, which an external law firm had begun probing in late 2019.<a href="#cite_note-75">[73]</a> During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates has widely been looked at by media outlets as an expert on the issue, despite him not being a <a href="/wiki/Official" title="Official">public official</a> or having any prior <a href="/wiki/Medical_education" title="Medical education">medical training</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Schwab-2020-76">[74]</a> His foundation did, however, establish the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator in 2020 to hasten the development and evaluation of new and repurposed drugs and biologics to treat patients for <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>,<a href="#cite_note-77">[75]</a> and, as of February 2021, Gates expressed that he and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Fauci" title="Anthony Fauci">Anthony Fauci</a> frequently talk and collaborate on matters including vaccines and other medical innovations to fight the pandemic.<a href="#cite_note-78">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_ventures_and_investments">Business ventures and investments</h3></div> Gates has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio with stakes in companies in multiple sectors and has participated in several entrepreneurial ventures beyond Microsoft, including: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AutoNation" title="AutoNation">AutoNation</a>, an automotive retailer which trades on the <a href="/wiki/NYSE" class="mw-redirect" title="NYSE">NYSE</a> and in which Gates has a 16% stake.<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BgC3" class="mw-redirect" title="BgC3">bgC3</a> LLC, a think-tank and research company founded by Gates.<a href="#cite_note-80">[78]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_National_Railway" title="Canadian National Railway">Canadian National Railway (CN)</a>, a Canadian <a href="/wiki/Class_I_railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Class I railroad">Class I freight railway</a>. As of 2019, Gates is the single largest shareholder of the company.<a href="#cite_note-CBC-81">[79]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_Investment" title="Cascade Investment">Cascade Investment</a> LLC, a private investment and holding company incorporated in the United States, founded and controlled by Gates and headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland, Washington</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[80]</a> <ul><li>Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in the United States with his landholdings owned through Cascade Investment totalling 242,000 acres across 19 states.<a href="#cite_note-bglr-83">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-nebg-84">[82]</a> He is the 49th largest private owner of land in the US.<a href="#cite_note-hwbg-85">[83]</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_Engineering" title="Carbon Engineering">Carbon Engineering</a>, a for-profit venture founded by <a href="/wiki/David_Keith_(scientist)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Keith (scientist)">David Keith</a>, which Gates helped fund.<a href="#cite_note-thts-86">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-aenyt-87">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-guntherguardian-88">[86]</a> It is also supported by <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Corporation" title="Chevron Corporation">Chevron Corporation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Occidental_Petroleum" title="Occidental Petroleum">Occidental Petroleum</a>.<a href="#cite_note-kbcnbc-89">[87]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SCoPEx" class="mw-redirect" title="SCoPEx">SCoPEx</a>, Keith's academic venture in "sun-dimming" <a href="/wiki/Geoengineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoengineering">geoengineering</a>, which Gates provided most of the $12 million for.<a href="#cite_note-tollefson18-90">[88]</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branded_Entertainment_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Branded Entertainment Network">Corbis</a> (originally named Interactive Home Systems and now known as Branded Entertainment Network), a digital image licensing and rights services company founded and chaired by Gates.<a href="#cite_note-91">[89]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EarthNow" title="EarthNow">EarthNow</a>, a Seattle-based startup company aiming to blanket the Earth with live satellite video coverage. Gates is a large financial backer.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclipse_Aviation" title="Eclipse Aviation">Eclipse Aviation</a>, a defunct manufacturer of <a href="/wiki/Very_light_jet" title="Very light jet">very light jets</a>. Gates was a major stake-holder early on in the project.<a href="#cite_note-Aviation.com15Jan08-93">[91]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impossible_Foods" title="Impossible Foods">Impossible Foods</a>, a company that develops <a href="/wiki/Meat_analogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Meat analogue">plant-based substitutes</a> for meat products. Some of the $396 million <a href="/wiki/Patrick_O._Brown" title="Patrick O. Brown">Patrick O. Brown</a> collected for his business came from Gates around 2014 to 2017.<a href="#cite_note-kgcnbc-94">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-ssnyt-95">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-bmbh-96">[94]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecolab" title="Ecolab">Ecolab</a>, a global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to the food, energy, healthcare, industrial and hospitality markets. Combined with the shares owned by the Foundation, Gates owns 11.6% of the company. A shareholder agreement in 2012 allowed him to own up to 25% of the company, but this agreement was removed.<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ResearchGate" title="ResearchGate">ResearchGate</a>, a social networking site for scientists. Gates participated in a $35 million round of financing along with other investors.<a href="#cite_note-98">[96]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TerraPower" title="TerraPower">TerraPower</a>, a nuclear reactor design company co-founded and chaired by Gates, which is developing next generation <a href="/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor" title="Traveling wave reactor">traveling-wave reactor</a> <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant" title="Nuclear power plant">nuclear power plants</a> in an effort to tackle <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-100">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[99]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[101]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Energy_Ventures" class="mw-redirect" title="Breakthrough Energy Ventures">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a>, a closed fund for wealthy individuals who seek <a href="/wiki/Return_on_investment" title="Return on investment">ROI</a> on a 20-year horizon (see <a href="#Climate_change_and_energy">next section</a>), which "is funding green start-ups and a host of other low-carbon entrepreneurial projects, including everything from advanced <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_technology" title="Nuclear technology">nuclear technology</a> to synthetic <a href="/wiki/Breast_milk" title="Breast milk">breast milk</a>." It was founded by Gates in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-katnr-104">[102]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginkgo_Bioworks" title="Ginkgo Bioworks">Ginkgo Bioworks</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology">biotech</a> startup that received $350 million in venture funding in 2019, in part from Gates's investment firm Cascade Investment.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters_2019-10-09-105">[103]</a></li> <li>Luminous Computing, a company that develops <a href="/wiki/Neuromorphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Neuromorphic">neuromorphic</a> <a href="/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuits" class="mw-redirect" title="Photonic integrated circuits">photonic integrated circuits</a> for <a href="/wiki/AI" class="mw-redirect" title="AI">AI</a> acceleration.</li> <li>Mologic, a British diagnostic technology company that Gates purchased, along with the <a href="/wiki/Soros_Economic_Development_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Soros Economic Development Fund">Soros Economic Development Fund</a>, "which has developed 10-minute Covid <a href="/wiki/Lateral_flow_test" title="Lateral flow test">lateral flow tests</a> that it aims to make for as little as $1".<a href="#cite_note-mfdt-106">[104]</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Climate_change_and_energy">Climate change and energy</h2></div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates,_in_Glasgow,_Scotland_on_November_02,_2021_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg/220px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1280"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 128px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg/220px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="128" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg/330px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg/440px-The_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi_meeting_with_Mr._Bill_Gates%2C_in_Glasgow%2C_Scotland_on_November_02%2C_2021_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>With Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference">COP26 climate summit</a> in Glasgow in November 2021</figcaption></figure> Gates considers <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and <a href="/wiki/Energy_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy access">global access to energy</a> to be critical, interrelated issues. He has urged governments and the private sector to invest in research and development to make clean, reliable energy cheaper. Gates envisions that a breakthrough innovation in <a href="/wiki/Sustainable_energy" title="Sustainable energy">sustainable energy</a> technology could drive down both greenhouse gas emissions and poverty, and bring economic benefits by stabilizing energy prices.<a href="#cite_note-Wattles-2015-107">[105]</a> In 2011, he said: "If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring that energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I'd pick the energy thing."<a href="#cite_note-Wired_2011-108">[106]</a> In 2015, he wrote about the challenge of transitioning the world's energy system from one based primarily on fossil fuels to one based on sustainable energy sources. Global <a href="/wiki/Energy_transitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy transitions">energy transitions</a> have historically taken decades. He wrote, "I believe we can make this transition faster, both because the pace of innovation is accelerating, and because we have never had such an urgent reason to move from one source of energy to another."<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> This rapid transition, according to Gates, would depend on increased government funding for basic research and financially risky private-sector investment, to enable innovation in diverse areas such as <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power" title="Nuclear power">nuclear energy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grid_energy_storage" title="Grid energy storage">grid energy storage</a> to facilitate greater use of solar and wind energy, and <a href="/wiki/Solar_fuels" class="mw-redirect" title="Solar fuels">solar fuels</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Thornhill-2015-110">[108]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_(41).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg/220px-Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2667"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg/220px-Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg/330px-Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg/440px-Ursula_von_der_Leyen_attends_the_2021_UN_Climate_Change_Conference_%2841%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_Investment_Bank" title="European Investment Bank">European Investment Bank</a> and Gates' <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Energy" title="Breakthrough Energy">Breakthrough Energy Catalyst</a> agreed at the 2021 <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Climate Change conference">UN Climate Change conference</a> to work together to bring green technologies to market.</figcaption></figure> Gates spearheaded two initiatives that he announced at the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a> in Paris. One was <a href="/wiki/Mission_Innovation" title="Mission Innovation">Mission Innovation</a>, in which 20 national governments pledged to double their spending on research and development for carbon-free energy in over five years' time.<a href="#cite_note-Wattles-2015-107">[105]</a> Another initiative was <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Energy" title="Breakthrough Energy">Breakthrough Energy</a>, a group of investors who agreed to fund high-risk startups in clean energy technologies. Gates, who had already invested $1 billion of his own money in innovative energy startups, committed a further $1 billion to Breakthrough Energy.<a href="#cite_note-Thornhill-2015-110">[108]</a> In December 2020, he called for the U.S. federal government to create institutes for clean energy research, analogous to the <a href="/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health" title="National Institutes of Health">National Institutes of Health</a>.<a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> Gates has also urged rich nations to shift to 100% <a href="/wiki/Synthetic_beef" class="mw-redirect" title="Synthetic beef">synthetic beef</a> industries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production.<a href="#cite_note-vlredef-112">[110]</a> Gates has been criticized for holding a large stake in <a href="/wiki/Signature_Aviation" title="Signature Aviation">Signature Aviation</a>, a company that services emissions-intensive private jets.<a href="#cite_note-113">[111]</a> In 2019, he began to <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel_divestment" title="Fossil fuel divestment">divest from fossil fuels</a>. He does not expect divestment itself to have much practical impact, but says that if his efforts to provide alternatives were to fail, he would not want to personally benefit from an increase in fossil fuel stock prices.<a href="#cite_note-114">[112]</a> After he published his book <a href="/wiki/How_to_Avoid_a_Climate_Disaster" title="How to Avoid a Climate Disaster">How to Avoid a Climate Disaster</a>, parts of the climate activist community criticized Gates's approach as <a href="/wiki/Technological_solutionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Technological solutionism">technological solutionism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a> In 2022, educational streamer <a href="/wiki/Wondrium" class="mw-redirect" title="Wondrium">Wondrium</a> produced the series "Solving for Zero: The Search for Climate Innovation" inspired by the book.<a href="#cite_note-116">[114]</a> In June 2021, Gates's company <a href="/wiki/TerraPower" title="TerraPower">TerraPower</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warren_Buffett" title="Warren Buffett">Warren Buffett</a>'s <a href="/wiki/PacifiCorp" title="PacifiCorp">PacifiCorp</a> announced the first <a href="/wiki/Sodium" title="Sodium">sodium</a> nuclear reactor in <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>. Wyoming Governor <a href="/wiki/Mark_Gordon_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Gordon (politician)">Mike Gordon</a> hailed the project as a step toward carbon-negative nuclear power. Wyoming Senator <a href="/wiki/John_Barrasso" title="John Barrasso">John Barrasso</a> also said that it could boost the state's once-active uranium mining industry.<a href="#cite_note-117">[115]</a> Gates supported the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act_of_2022" class="mw-redirect" title="Inflation Reduction Act of 2022">Inflation Reduction Act of 2022</a>. He tried to convince <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Joe Manchin</a> to support a climate bill starting in 2019, and especially in the months leading up to the adoption of the bill. The bill aimed to cut the global greenhouse gas emissions in a level similar to "eliminating the annual planet-warming pollution of France and Germany combined" and may help to limit the warming of the planet to 1.5 degrees – the target of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-118">[116]</a> He thanked both Joe Manchin and <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> for their efforts in a guest essay in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, where he said "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may be the single most important piece of climate legislation in American history" given its potential to spur development of new technologies.<a href="#cite_note-119">[117]</a> Gates gave further insights on climate change in his commencement address at <a href="/wiki/Northern_Arizona_University" title="Northern Arizona University">Northern Arizona University</a> on May 6, 2023, where he was bestowed an honorary doctorate.<a href="#cite_note-120">[118]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2></div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> In October 2024, The New York Times reported Gates had recently donated $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, a <a href="/wiki/501(c)_organization" title="501(c) organization">501(c)(4)</a> organization supporting <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign" title="Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign">Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign</a>. In response to the report, he did not explicitly address the donation or endorse Harris, but said "this election is different."<a href="#cite_note-121">[119]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regulation_of_the_software_industry">Regulation of the software industry</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Antitrust_litigation">Bill Gates § Antitrust litigation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp." title="United States v. Microsoft Corp.">United States v. Microsoft Corp.</a></div> In 1998, Gates rejected the need for regulation of the software industry in testimony before the United States Senate.<a href="#cite_note-mzyf-122">[120]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission" title="Federal Trade Commission">Federal Trade Commission</a>'s (FTC) investigation of Microsoft in the 1990s, Gates was reportedly upset at then Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Yao" title="Dennis Yao">Dennis Yao</a> for "float[ing] a line of hypothetical questions suggesting possible curbs on Microsoft's growing monopoly power". According to one source: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Gates was vexed. "He started by calling Yao's ideas socialistic," recalls a source familiar with the July 15 meeting, "and as he got angrier and angrier and louder and louder, he got into calling them Communistic."<a href="#cite_note-123">[121]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Donald_Trump_Facebook_ban">Donald Trump Facebook ban</h3></div> After <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> had banned <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> from their platforms on February 18, 2021, as a result of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 United States presidential election</a> which led to the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6 United States Capitol attack</a>, Gates said a permanent ban of Trump "would be a shame" and would be an "extreme measure". He warned that it would cause "polarization" if users with different political views divide up among various social networks, and said: "I don't think banning somebody who actually did get a fair number of votes (in the presidential election) – well less than a majority – but I don't think having him off forever would be that good."<a href="#cite_note-mzyf-122">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Patents_for_COVID-19_vaccines">Patents for COVID-19 vaccines</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement_waiver" title="TRIPS Agreement waiver">TRIPS Agreement waiver</a></div> In April 2021, during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Gates was criticized for suggesting that pharmaceutical companies should hold onto patents for <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccines" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19 vaccines">COVID-19 vaccines</a>. The criticism came due to the possibility of this preventing poorer nations from obtaining adequate vaccines. Tara Van Ho of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Essex" title="University of Essex">University of Essex</a> stated, "Gates speaks as if all the lives being lost in India are inevitable but eventually the West will help when in reality the US & UK are holding their feet on the neck of developing states by refusing to break [intellectual property rights] protections. It's disgusting."<a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> Gates is opposed to the <a href="/wiki/TRIPS_waiver" class="mw-redirect" title="TRIPS waiver">TRIPS waiver</a>.<a href="#cite_note-observer-125">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-apartheid-126">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-colonialism-127">[125]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg News</a> reported him as saying he argued that Oxford University should not give away the rights to its COVID-19 information, as it had announced, but instead sell it to a single industry partner, as it did.<a href="#cite_note-oxford_pledge-128">[126]</a> His views on the value of <a href="/wiki/Government-granted_monopoly" title="Government-granted monopoly">legal monopolies</a> in medicine have been linked to his views on legal monopolies in software.<a href="#cite_note-apartheid-126">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-colonialism-127">[125]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cryptocurrencies">Cryptocurrencies</h3></div> Gates has been critical of <a href="/wiki/Cryptocurrency" title="Cryptocurrency">cryptocurrencies</a> like <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a>. According to him, cryptocurrencies provide no "valuable output", contribute nothing to society, and pose a danger especially for smaller investors who could not survive the potentially high losses. Gates also does not own any cryptocurrencies himself.<a href="#cite_note-129">[127]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2></div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> In an interview with the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> in 2025, Gates stated that his charitable donations have totalled $100 billion, of which $60 billion have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<a href="#cite_note-130">[128]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/220px-Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2705"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 145px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/220px-Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="145" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/330px-Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/440px-Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates with <a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queen_Rania_of_Jordan" title="Queen Rania of Jordan">Queen Rania of Jordan</a>, former British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>, then President of Nigeria <a href="/wiki/Umaru_Musa_Yar%27Adua" title="Umaru Musa Yar'Adua">Umaru Yar'Adua</a> and others during the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum</figcaption></figure> Gates studied the work of <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller">John D. Rockefeller</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Gates_Foundation" title="Gates Foundation">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's largest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.<a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[130]</a> The foundation allows benefactors to access information that shows how its money is being spent, unlike other major charitable organizations such as the <a href="/wiki/Wellcome_Trust" title="Wellcome Trust">Wellcome Trust</a>.<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[132]</a> Gates, through his foundation, also donated $20 million to the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a> for a new building to be named Gates Center for Computer Science which opened in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-135">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[134]</a> Gates has credited the generosity and extensive philanthropy of <a href="/wiki/David_Rockefeller" title="David Rockefeller">David Rockefeller</a> as a major influence. He and his father met with Rockefeller several times, and their charity work is partly modeled on the <a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_family" title="Rockefeller family">Rockefeller family</a>'s philanthropic focus, whereby they are interested in tackling the global problems that are ignored by governments and other organizations.<a href="#cite_note-bill_foundation-137">[135]</a> The foundation is organized into five program areas: Global Development Division, Global Health Division, United States Division, and Global Policy & Advocacy Division. Among others, it supports a wide range of public health projects, granting aid to fight transmissible diseases such <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>, as well as widespread vaccine programs to eradicate <a href="/wiki/Polio" title="Polio">polio</a>. It grants funds to learning institutes and libraries and supports scholarships at universities. The foundation established a water, sanitation and hygiene program to provide sustainable sanitation services in poor countries.<a href="#cite_note-138">[136]</a> Its agriculture division supports the <a href="/wiki/International_Rice_Research_Institute" title="International Rice Research Institute">International Rice Research Institute</a> in developing <a href="/wiki/Golden_Rice" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Rice">Golden Rice</a>, a genetically modified rice variant used to combat <a href="/wiki/Vitamin_A_deficiency" title="Vitamin A deficiency">vitamin A deficiency</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[137]</a> The foundation aims to provide women and girls in the developing world with information and support regarding contraception and, ultimately, universal access to consensual <a href="/wiki/Family_planning" title="Family planning">family planning</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[138]</a> In 2007, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> criticized the foundation for investing its assets in companies that have been accused of worsening poverty, pollution and pharmaceutical firms that do not sell to <a href="/wiki/Developing_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Developing countries">developing countries</a>.<a href="#cite_note-141">[139]</a> Although the foundation announced a review of its investments to assess social responsibility,<a href="#cite_note-142">[140]</a> it was subsequently canceled and upheld its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg/220px-Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1152"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 124px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg/220px-Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="124" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg/330px-Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg/440px-Bill_Gates_at_Singapore_FinTech_Festival_2020.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates in a fireside chat moderated by <a href="/wiki/Shereen_Bhan" title="Shereen Bhan">Shereen Bhan</a> virtually at the <a href="/wiki/Singapore_FinTech_Festival" title="Singapore FinTech Festival">Singapore FinTech Festival</a> 2020</figcaption></figure> Gates delivered his thoughts in a fireside chat moderated by journalist and news anchor <a href="/wiki/Shereen_Bhan" title="Shereen Bhan">Shereen Bhan</a> virtually at the <a href="/wiki/Singapore_FinTech_Festival" title="Singapore FinTech Festival">Singapore FinTech Festival</a> on December 8, 2020, on the topic, "Building Infrastructure for Resilience: What the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19</a> Response Can Teach Us About How to Scale Financial Inclusion".<a href="#cite_note-billgates-144">[142]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Governments are there to think ahead to bad things that might happen. In the case of (the COVID-19) pandemic, not enough was done. We can't forget that another pandemic will come and we'll need to invest in being ready in that, ... while not forgetting that we were not prepared and we're going to have to invest – just like having a fire department – some money in an intelligent way and actually simulate what might happen and make sure that we're ready for it.<a href="#cite_note-billgates-144">[142]</a></blockquote> Gates favors the normalization of COVID-19 masks. In a November 2020 interview, he said: "What are these, like, nudists? I mean, you know, we ask you to wear pants, and no American says, or very few Americans say, that that's, like, some terrible thing."<a href="#cite_note-ammbg-145">[143]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_donations">Personal donations</h3></div> Melinda Gates suggested that people should emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, who sold their home and gave away half of its value, as detailed in their book, <a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Half" title="The Power of Half">The Power of Half</a>.<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a> Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor <a href="/wiki/Warren_Buffett" title="Warren Buffett">Warren Buffett</a> each signed a commitment they called the "<a href="/wiki/Giving_Pledge" class="mw-redirect" title="Giving Pledge">Giving Pledge</a>", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.<a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-148">[146]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[147]</a> The Foundation has received criticism, particularly over its role in <a href="/wiki/Common_Core" title="Common Core">Common Core</a>, with critics stating the support is "<a href="/wiki/Cronyism" title="Cronyism">cronyist</a>" in that it profits from the "federal, state, and local contracts."<a href="#cite_note-150">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[151]</a> Gates has also provided personal donations to educational institutions. In 1999, Gates donated $20 million to the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> for the construction of a computer laboratory named the "William H. Gates Building" that was designed by architect <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gehry" title="Frank Gehry">Frank Gehry</a>. While Microsoft had previously given financial support to the institution, this was the first personal donation received from Gates.<a href="#cite_note-154">[152]</a> The Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory of the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School_of_Engineering_and_Applied_Sciences" title="Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences">Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences</a> is named after the mothers of both Gates and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer, both of whom were students (Ballmer was a member of the school's graduating class of 1977, while Gates left his studies for Microsoft), and donated funds for the laboratory's construction.<a href="#cite_note-155">[153]</a> Gates also donated $6 million to the construction of the Gates Computer Science Building, completed in January 1996, on the campus of <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>. The building contains the Computer Science Department and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) of Stanford's Engineering department.<a href="#cite_note-156">[154]</a> Since 2005, Gates and his foundation have taken an interest in solving global <a href="/wiki/Sanitation" title="Sanitation">sanitation</a> problems. For example, they announced the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", which has received considerable media interest.<a href="#cite_note-157">[155]</a> To raise awareness for the topic of sanitation and possible solutions, Gates drank water that was "produced from human feces" in 2014 – it was produced from a <a href="/wiki/Sewage_sludge_treatment" title="Sewage sludge treatment">sewage sludge treatment</a> process called the <a href="/wiki/Omni_Processor" class="mw-redirect" title="Omni Processor">Omni Processor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-158">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-159">[157]</a> In early 2015, he also appeared with <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Fallon" title="Jimmy Fallon">Jimmy Fallon</a> on <a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show" title="The Tonight Show">The Tonight Show</a> and challenged him to see if he could taste the difference between this <a href="/wiki/Reclaimed_water" title="Reclaimed water">reclaimed water</a> or bottled water.<a href="#cite_note-160">[158]</a> In November 2017, Gates said he would give $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that seeks treatment for <a href="/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease" title="Alzheimer's disease">Alzheimer's disease</a>. He also pledged an additional $50 million to start-up ventures working in Alzheimer's research.<a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a> Bill and Melinda Gates have said that they intend to leave their three children $10 million each as their inheritance. With only $30 million kept in the family, they are expected to give away about 99.96% of their wealth.<a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a> On August 25, 2018, Gates distributed $600,000 through his foundation via <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNICEF">UNICEF</a> which is helping flood affected victims in <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, India.<a href="#cite_note-163">[161]</a> In June 2018, Gates offered free <a href="/wiki/Ebook" title="Ebook">ebooks</a>, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities,<a href="#cite_note-164">[162]</a> and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world.<a href="#cite_note-165">[163]</a><a href="#cite_note-166">[164]</a> The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds <a href="/wiki/OpenStax" title="OpenStax">OpenStax</a>, which creates and provides free digital textbooks.<a href="#cite_note-167">[165]</a> In July 2022 he reiterated the commitment he had made by starting <a href="/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge" title="The Giving Pledge">the Giving Pledge</a> campaign by announcing on his Twitter channel he planned to give 'virtually all' his wealth to charity and eventually 'move off of the list of the world's richest people.'<a href="#cite_note-168">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charity_sports_events">Charity sports events</h3></div> In April 2017, Gates partnered with Swiss tennis player <a href="/wiki/Roger_Federer" title="Roger Federer">Roger Federer</a> in playing in the <a href="/wiki/Match_for_Africa#Match_for_Africa_4" title="Match for Africa">Match for Africa 4</a>, a noncompetitive tennis match at a sold-out <a href="/wiki/Key_Arena" class="mw-redirect" title="Key Arena">Key Arena</a> in Seattle. The event was in support of the <a href="/wiki/Roger_Federer_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger Federer Foundation">Roger Federer Foundation</a>'s charity efforts in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-169">[167]</a> Federer and Gates played against <a href="/wiki/John_Isner" title="John Isner">John Isner</a>, the top-ranked American player for much of this decade, and <a href="/wiki/Mike_McCready" title="Mike McCready">Mike McCready</a>, the lead guitarist for <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Jam" title="Pearl Jam">Pearl Jam</a>. The pair won the match 6 games to 4. Overall, they raised $2 million for children in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-match4-170">[168]</a> The following year, Gates and Federer returned to play in the <a href="/wiki/Match_for_Africa#Match_for_Africa_5" title="Match for Africa">Match for Africa 5</a> on March 5, 2018, at San Jose's <a href="/wiki/SAP_Center" title="SAP Center">SAP Center</a>. Their opponents were <a href="/wiki/Jack_Sock" title="Jack Sock">Jack Sock</a>, one of the top American players and a grand slam winner in doubles, and <a href="/wiki/Savannah_Guthrie" title="Savannah Guthrie">Savannah Guthrie</a>, a co-anchor for <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Today_(U.S._TV_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="Today (U.S. TV program)">Today</a> show. Gates and Federer recorded their second match victory together by a score of 6–3 and the event raised over $2.5 million.<a href="#cite_note-match5-171">[169]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2></div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> In 1989, Gates wrote the foreword to the Microsoft Press book <a href="/wiki/Learn_BASIC_Now" title="Learn BASIC Now">Learn BASIC Now</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Halvorson" title="Michael Halvorson">Michael Halvorson</a> and David Rygmyr, reflecting on the growth of the BASIC language and its use in most of the era's personal computers. He also sketched out plans for BASIC's use as a universal language to embellish or alter the performance of a range of software applications.<a href="#cite_note-172">[170]</a> Gates has authored several books. <a href="/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Bill_Gates_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book)">The Road Ahead</a>, co-authored with Microsoft executive <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold" title="Nathan Myhrvold">Nathan Myhrvold</a> and journalist <a href="/wiki/Peter_Rinearson" title="Peter Rinearson">Peter Rinearson</a>, was published in November 1995. It summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global <a href="/wiki/Information_superhighway" title="Information superhighway">information superhighway</a>. His second book, <a href="/wiki/Business_@_the_Speed_of_Thought" title="Business @ the Speed of Thought">Business @ the Speed of Thought</a>, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, was published in 1999, and discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help to get an edge on the competition. In 2021 he published <a href="/wiki/How_to_Avoid_a_Climate_Disaster" title="How to Avoid a Climate Disaster">How to Avoid a Climate Disaster</a>, which presents what Gates learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems.<a href="#cite_note-Gates2021-173">[171]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> Gates published <a href="/wiki/How_to_Prevent_the_Next_Pandemic" title="How to Prevent the Next Pandemic">How to Prevent the Next Pandemic</a> in 2022 which proposes a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion, under the auspices of the WHO.<a href="#cite_note-174">[172]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[173]</a> The first of Gates's planned three memoirs, <a href="/wiki/Source_Code_(memoir)" title="Source Code (memoir)">Source Code</a> was published in February 2025.<a href="#cite_note-PenguinUK-176">[174]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> Gates is an avid reader, and the ceiling of his large home library is engraved with a quotation from <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a>.<a href="#cite_note-177">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[176]</a> He also enjoys bridge, golf, and tennis.<a href="#cite_note-179">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-180">[178]</a> His days are planned for him on a minute-by-minute basis, similarly to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._president" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. president">U.S. president</a>'s schedule.<a href="#cite_note-181">[179]</a> Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates flew <a href="/wiki/Coach_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Coach class">coach</a> (economy class) in <a href="/wiki/Commercial_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial aircraft">commercial aircraft</a> until 1997, when he bought a <a href="/wiki/Private_jet" class="mw-redirect" title="Private jet">private jet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-zuckerman19971027-182">[180]</a> Gates purchased the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Leicester" title="Codex Leicester">Codex Leicester</a>, a collection of scientific writings by <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, for US$30.8 million at an auction in 1994.<a href="#cite_note-183">[181]</a> In 1998, he reportedly paid $30 million for the original 1885 maritime painting <a href="/wiki/Lost_on_the_Grand_Banks" title="Lost on the Grand Banks">Lost on the Grand Banks</a>, at the time a record price for an American painting.<a href="#cite_note-184">[182]</a> In 2016, he revealed that he was <a href="/wiki/Color_blindness" title="Color blindness">color-blind</a>.<a href="#cite_note-185">[183]</a> On May 10, 2022, Gates said that he tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing mild symptoms.<a href="#cite_note-CP24-2022-186">[184]</a> Gates has received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.<a href="#cite_note-CP24-2022-186">[184]</a> In 2025, in <a href="/wiki/Source_Code_(memoir)" title="Source Code (memoir)">Source Code</a>, Gates wrote that he believed he was <a href="/wiki/Autism" title="Autism">autistic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-187">[185]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage,_family_and_divorce">Marriage, family and divorce</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_(bilde_01).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG/220px-Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2808" data-file-height="1872"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG/220px-Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG/330px-Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG/440px-Bill_og_Melinda_Gates_2009-06-03_%28bilde_01%29.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates with former wife <a href="/wiki/Melinda_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Melinda Gates">Melinda</a>, June 2009</figcaption></figure> In 1987, at a trade fair in New York, Gates met <a href="/wiki/Melinda_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Melinda Gates">Melinda French</a>, a recent graduate of <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a> who had begun working at Microsoft around four months earlier.<a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a> Gates and French became engaged in 1993 after dating for six years.<a href="#cite_note-189">[187]</a> They married on January 1, 1994, at the 12th hole of the <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicklaus" title="Jack Nicklaus">Jack Nicklaus</a>–designed Manele Golf Course on the Hawaiian Island of <a href="/wiki/Lanai" title="Lanai">Lānaʻi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-190">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[189]</a> They had three children together: Jennifer Katherine Gates Nassar (born April 26, 1996), Rory John Gates (born May 23, 1999), and Phoebe Adele Gates (born September 14, 2002).<a href="#cite_note-192">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-193">[191]</a> The family resided in an <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates%27s_house" title="Bill Gates's house">earth-sheltered mansion</a> in the side of a hill overlooking <a href="/wiki/Lake_Washington" title="Lake Washington">Lake Washington</a> in <a href="/wiki/Medina,_Washington" title="Medina, Washington">Medina, Washington</a>. In 2009, <a href="/wiki/Property_tax" title="Property tax">property taxes</a> on the mansion were reported to be US$1.063 million, on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.<a href="#cite_note-194">[192]</a> The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) estate has a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, as well as a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room.<a href="#cite_note-195">[193]</a> On May 3, 2021, the couple announced their decision to divorce after more than 27 years of marriage.<a href="#cite_note-divorce-196">[194]</a><a href="#cite_note-divorce-nytimes-197">[195]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that Melinda had begun meeting with divorce attorneys in 2019, citing interviews that suggested Gates's ties with Jeffrey Epstein were among her concerns.<a href="#cite_note-198">[196]</a> However, the couple delayed their divorce until their youngest daughter Phoebe had graduated from high school.<a href="#cite_note-199">[197]</a> The divorce was finalized on August 2, 2021, and the financial details have remained confidential.<a href="#cite_note-:0-200">[198]</a> In February 2023, Gates confirmed that he was dating Paula Hurd, widow of former <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a> chief executive <a href="/wiki/Mark_Hurd" title="Mark Hurd">Mark Hurd</a>.<a href="#cite_note-201">[199]</a> He became a grandfather in March 2023 when his eldest daughter Jennifer, who had married Olympic equestrian <a href="/wiki/Nayel_Nassar" title="Nayel Nassar">Nayel Nassar</a> in October 2021, gave birth to a daughter.<a href="#cite_note-202">[200]</a> Jennifer gave birth to a second daughter in October 2024.<a href="#cite_note-203">[201]</a> In a February 2025 appearance on the <a href="/wiki/Today_(American_TV_program)" title="Today (American TV program)">Today</a> show, Gates described Hurd as a "serious girlfriend" and stated that he had "moved past the divorce."<a href="#cite_note-204">[202]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_image">Public image</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:170217-D-GO396-0147_(32577063650).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg/220px-170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3982" data-file-height="2655"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg/220px-170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg" data-alt="" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg/330px-170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg/440px-170217-D-GO396-0147_%2832577063650%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>With then U.S. Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Jim_Mattis" title="Jim Mattis">Jim Mattis</a>, February 2017.</figcaption></figure> Gates's public image has changed over the years. At first he was perceived as a brilliant but ruthless "robber baron", a "nerd-turned-tycoon".<a href="#cite_note-Carr-2021-205">[203]</a> Starting in 2000 with the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, poverty, and education. His image morphed from "tyrannical technocrat to saintly savior" to a "huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist", celebrated on magazine covers and sought after for his opinions on major issues like global health and climate change.<a href="#cite_note-Carr-2021-205">[203]</a> Still another shift in public opinion came in 2021 with the announcement that he and Melinda were divorcing. Coverage of that proceeding brought out information about romantic pursuits of women who worked for him, a long-term extra-marital affair, and a friendship with convicted sex offender <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein" title="Jeffrey Epstein">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Flitter-206">[204]</a> This information and his response to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some deterioration of his public image, going from "a lovable nerd who was out to save the world" to "a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health."<a href="#cite_note-207">[205]</a> Investigative journalist Tim Schwab has accused Gates of using his contributions to the media to shape their coverage of him in order to protect his public image.<a href="#cite_note-Schwab-2020-76">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-208">[206]</a> In September 2022, <a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a> published an exposé critical of NGO leadership at the helm of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic response, written in cooperation with the German newspaper <a href="/wiki/Die_Welt" title="Die Welt">Die Welt</a>. Criticisms included the interconnectivity of the non-profits with Gates, as well as his personal lack of formal credentials in medicine.<a href="#cite_note-209">[207]</a> Gates and the projects of his foundation have been the subject of many conspiracy theories that proliferate on Facebook and elsewhere. He has been implausibly accused of attempting to depopulate the world, distributing harmful or unethical vaccines, and implanting people with privacy-violating microchips. These unfounded theories reached a new level of influence during the COVID-19 pandemic when, according to New York Times journalist Rory Smith, the uncertainties of pandemic life drove people to seek explanations from the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-210">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-211">[209]</a> When asked about the theories, Gates has remarked that some people are tempted by the "simple explanation" that an evil person rather than biological factors are to blame, and that he does not know for what purpose anyone believes he would want to track them with microchips.<a href="#cite_note-212">[210]</a><a href="#cite_note-213">[211]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_views">Religious views</h3></div> In an interview with <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>, Gates said in regard to his faith: "The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief."<a href="#cite_note-God-214">[212]</a> In the same 2014 interview he also said: "I agree with people like <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."<a href="#cite_note-God-214">[212]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wealth">Wealth</h3></div> In 1987, Gates was listed as a billionaire in <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> magazine's first ever <a href="/wiki/Forbes_400" title="Forbes 400">America's richest</a> issue; he was the world's youngest-ever self-made billionaire, with a net worth of $1.25 billion. Since then, he has been featured on <a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires" title="The World's Billionaires">The World's Billionaires</a> list and was ranked as the richest person in 1995, 1996, 1998–2007, and 2009, maintaining the position until 2018, when <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> surpassed his wealth. Gates was ranked first on the <a href="/wiki/Forbes_400" title="Forbes 400">Forbes 400</a> list of wealthiest Americans from 1993 to 2007, in 2009, and from 2014 to 2017.<a href="#cite_note-Wahba-215">[213]</a><a href="#cite_note-216">[214]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>, as of 17 February 2025, Gates' estimated net worth stood at US$108.8 billion, making him the 16th richest individual in the world.<a href="#cite_note-Forbes-217">[215]</a> Gates's wealth briefly surpassed US$100 billion in 1999, making him the first person to reach this net worth.<a href="#cite_note-218">[216]</a><a href="#cite_note-zuckerman19971027-182">[180]</a> After 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings declined, partly because of the decline in Microsoft's stock price after the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a> burst, and partly because of the multi-billion dollar donations he had made to his charitable foundations. In May 2006, Gates remarked that he wished that he were not the richest man in the world, because he disliked the attention that it brought.<a href="#cite_note-219">[217]</a> In March 2010, Gates was the second wealthiest person after <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Slim" title="Carlos Slim">Carlos Slim</a>, but regained the top position in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<a href="#cite_note-Bloom-220">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-221">[219]</a> Slim regained the position again in June 2014<a href="#cite_note-wealthy_list-222">[220]</a><a href="#cite_note-New_wealthiest_man-223">[221]</a> (but then lost the top position back to Gates). Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to US$82 billion.<a href="#cite_note-224">[222]</a> In October 2017, Gates was surpassed by <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> as the richest person in the world.<a href="#cite_note-225">[223]</a> In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2023, he was ranked sixth with a wealth of $115.0 billion.<a href="#cite_note-226">[224]</a> He once again became the richest person in the world in November 2019 after a 48% increase in Microsoft shares, surpassing Bezos.<a href="#cite_note-227">[225]</a> Gates told the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, "I've paid more tax than any individual ever, and gladly so ... I've paid over $6 billion in taxes."<a href="#cite_note-228">[226]</a> He is a proponent of higher taxes, particularly for the rich.<a href="#cite_note-229">[227]</a> Gates has several investments outside Microsoft, which in 2006 paid him a salary of US$616,667 and a bonus of US$350,000, for a total of US$966,667.<a href="#cite_note-230">[228]</a> In 1989, he founded <a href="/wiki/Branded_Entertainment_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Branded Entertainment Network">Corbis</a>, a digital imaging company. In 2004, he became a board member of <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway" title="Berkshire Hathaway">Berkshire Hathaway</a>, the investment company headed by long-time friend <a href="/wiki/Warren_Buffett" title="Warren Buffett">Warren Buffett</a>.<a href="#cite_note-231">[229]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2></div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antitrust_litigation">Antitrust litigation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/United_States_Microsoft_antitrust_case" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Microsoft antitrust case">United States Microsoft antitrust case</a> and <a href="/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union Microsoft competition case">European Union Microsoft competition case</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png/220px-US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="699" data-file-height="478"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 150px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png/220px-US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png" data-width="220" data-height="150" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png/330px-US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png/440px-US_v._Microsoft_Bill_Gates_Color.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft on August 27, 1998</figcaption></figure> During his tenure as CEO of Microsoft, Gates approved of many decisions that led to <a href="/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law" title="United States antitrust law">antitrust</a> litigation over Microsoft's business practices. In the 1998 <a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft" class="mw-redirect" title="United States v. Microsoft">United States v. Microsoft</a> case, Gates gave <a href="/wiki/Deposition_(law)" title="Deposition (law)">deposition</a> testimony that several journalists characterized as evasive. He argued with examiner <a href="/wiki/David_Boies" title="David Boies">David Boies</a> over the contextual meaning of words such as "compete", "concerned", and "we". Later in the year, when portions of the videotaped deposition were played back in court, the judge was seen laughing and shaking his head.<a href="#cite_note-GatesDepositionJudgeLaugh-232">[230]</a> BusinessWeek reported: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Early rounds of his deposition show him offering obfuscatory answers and saying "I don't recall" so many times that even the presiding judge had to chuckle. Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail that Gates both sent and received.<a href="#cite_note-233">[231]</a></blockquote> Gates later said that he had simply resisted attempts by Boies to mischaracterize his words and actions. "Did I fence with Boies? ... I plead guilty ... rudeness to Boies in the first degree."<a href="#cite_note-truth-234">[232]</a> Despite Gates's denials, the judge ruled that Microsoft had committed <a href="/wiki/Monopolization" title="Monopolization">monopolization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tying_(commerce)" title="Tying (commerce)">tying</a> and blocking competition, each in violation of the <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act" title="Sherman Antitrust Act">Sherman Antitrust Act</a>.<a href="#cite_note-truth-234">[232]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Treatment_of_colleagues_and_employees">Treatment of colleagues and employees</h3></div> Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy from the company's founding in 1975 until 2006. He gained a reputation for being distant from others; an industry executive complained in 1981 that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."<a href="#cite_note-freiberger19810831-235">[233]</a> An Atari executive recalled that he showed Gates a game and defeated him 35 of 37 times. When they met again a month later, Gates "won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it. That is a competitor".<a href="#cite_note-Atari_Thorlin_Interview_2000-236">[234]</a> In the early 1980s, while business partner Paul Allen was undergoing treatments for <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>, Gates—according to Allen—conspired to reduce Allen's share in Microsoft by issuing himself stock options.<a href="#cite_note-alforbes-237">[235]</a><a href="#cite_note-acarr-238">[236]</a><a href="#cite_note-hkcnn-239">[237]</a> In his autobiography, Allen would later recall that Gates was "scheming to rip me off. It was mercenary opportunism plain and simple".<a href="#cite_note-alforbes-237">[235]</a> Gates says he remembers the episode differently.<a href="#cite_note-acarr-238">[236]</a> Allen would also recall that Gates was prone to shouting episodes.<a href="#cite_note-hkcnn-239">[237]</a> Gates has often been accused of bullying Microsoft employees.<a href="#cite_note-bbc5/8/2021-240">[238]</a> He met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and the managers described him as being verbally combative, berating them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.<a href="#cite_note-rensin-241">[239]</a><a href="#cite_note-242">[240]</a> Gates saw competition in personal terms; when <a href="/wiki/Borland" title="Borland">Borland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Turbo_Pascal" title="Turbo Pascal">Turbo Pascal</a> performed better than Microsoft's own tools, he yelled at programming director <a href="/wiki/Greg_Whitten" title="Greg Whitten">Greg Whitten</a> "for half an hour" because, Gates believed, Borland's <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Kahn" title="Philippe Kahn">Philippe Kahn</a> had surpassed Gates.<a href="#cite_note-243">[241]</a> Gates interrupted presentations with such comments as "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard"<a href="#cite_note-time_GOS-244">[242]</a> and "why don't you just give up your <a href="/wiki/Employee_stock_option" title="Employee stock option">options</a> and join the <a href="/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">Peace Corps</a>?"<a href="#cite_note-245">[243]</a> The target of his outburst would then have to defend the proposal in detail until Gates was fully convinced.<a href="#cite_note-time_GOS-244">[242]</a> Not all harsh language was criticism; a manager recalled that "You're full of shit. That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard" meant that Gates was amazed. "In the lore of Microsoft, if Bill says that to you, you're made".<a href="#cite_note-smith20230226-246">[244]</a> When subordinates appeared to be procrastinating, he was known to remark sarcastically, "I'll do it over the weekend".<a href="#cite_note-chapman-247">[245]</a><a href="#cite_note-pdc97-56">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-herbold-248">[246]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_Jeffrey_Epstein">Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein</h3></div> A 2019 <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> article reported that Gates's relationship with financier <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein" title="Jeffrey Epstein">Jeffrey Epstein</a> started in 2011, just a few years after Epstein was convicted for procuring a <a href="/wiki/Child_prostitution" title="Child prostitution">child for prostitution</a>, and continued for some years, including a visit to Epstein's house with his wife in the fall of 2013, despite her declared discomfort.<a href="#cite_note-Flitter-2019-249">[247]</a> Gates said in 2011 about Epstein: "His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me".<a href="#cite_note-Flitter-206">[204]</a> The depth of the friendship between Gates and Epstein is unclear though Gates generally commented that "I met him. I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him".<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-250">[248]</a> However, Gates visited Epstein "many times, despite [Epstein's] past".<a href="#cite_note-Flitter-2019-249">[247]</a> It was reported that Epstein and Gates "discussed the Gates Foundation and philanthropy".<a href="#cite_note-Flitter-2019-249">[247]</a> However, in an interview in 2019 Gates completely denied any connection between Epstein and the Gates Foundation or his philanthropy generally.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-250">[248]</a> In August 2021, Gates said the reason he had meetings with Epstein was because Gates hoped Epstein could provide money for philanthropic work, though nothing came of the idea. Gates added, "It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there."<a href="#cite_note-bbc5/8/2021-240">[238]</a> Gates came under further scrutiny after it was revealed that he had travelled on Epstein's private jet, though further claims about Gates travelling to Little St James proved unsubstantiated.<a href="#cite_note-251">[249]</a> It has also been reported that Epstein and Gates met with <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Committee" title="Nobel Committee">Nobel Committee</a> chair <a href="/wiki/Thorbj%C3%B8rn_Jagland" title="Thorbjørn Jagland">Thorbjørn Jagland</a> at his residence in <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg,_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Strasbourg, France">Strasbourg, France</a>, in March 2013 to discuss the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a>.<a href="#cite_note-252">[250]</a> Also in attendance were representatives of the <a href="/wiki/International_Peace_Institute" title="International Peace Institute">International Peace Institute</a> which has received millions in grants from the <a href="/wiki/Gates_Foundation" title="Gates Foundation">Gates Foundation</a>, including a $2.5 million "community engagement" grant in October 2013.<a href="#cite_note-253">[251]</a> In 2023, it was reported that Epstein threatened to expose an alleged affair Gates had with a Russian <a href="/wiki/Contract_bridge" title="Contract bridge">bridge</a> player.<a href="#cite_note-254">[252]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2></div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm/220px-seek%3D2395.5-President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="3614" data-mwtitle="President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm.480p.vp9.webm#t=00:38:41.500,00:40:05.500" type='video/webm; 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codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm.360p.webm#t=00:38:41.500,00:40:05.500" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm/President_Obama_Awards_the_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom.webm.360p.vp9.webm#t=00:38:41.500,00:40:05.500" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source></video><figcaption>Bill and Melinda Gates being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in 2016</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Time magazine listed Gates as <a href="/wiki/Time_100:_The_Most_Important_People_of_the_Century" title="Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century">one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century</a> in 1999, as well as <a href="/wiki/Time_100" title="Time 100">one of the 100 most influential people</a> in 2004, 2005, and 2006 respectively.<a href="#cite_note-255">[253]</a></li> <li>Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer <a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a> as the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year" title="Time Person of the Year">Persons of the Year</a> for their humanitarian efforts.<a href="#cite_note-256">[254]</a> In 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time" published by <a href="/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a>.<a href="#cite_note-257">[255]</a></li> <li>Gates was listed in the <a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a> power list in 1999, named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998, ranked number two in the <a href="/wiki/Upside_(magazine)" title="Upside (magazine)">Upside</a> Elite 100 in 1999, and was also included in <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-258">[256]</a></li> <li>Gates has received honorary doctorates from <a href="/wiki/Nyenrode_Business_Universiteit" class="mw-redirect" title="Nyenrode Business Universiteit">Nyenrode Business Universiteit</a> (1996),<a href="#cite_note-259">[257]</a> <a href="/wiki/KTH_Royal_Institute_of_Technology" title="KTH Royal Institute of Technology">KTH Royal Institute of Technology</a> (2002),<a href="#cite_note-260">[258]</a> <a href="/wiki/Waseda_University" title="Waseda University">Waseda University</a> (2005),<a href="#cite_note-261">[259]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tsinghua_University" title="Tsinghua University">Tsinghua University</a> (2007),<a href="#cite_note-262">[260]</a> Harvard University (2007),<a href="#cite_note-263">[261]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Karolinska_Institute" title="Karolinska Institute">Karolinska Institute</a> (2007),<a href="#cite_note-264">[262]</a> the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> (2009),<a href="#cite_note-cam-265">[263]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northern_Arizona_University" title="Northern Arizona University">Northern Arizona University</a> (2023).<a href="#cite_note-266">[264]</a><a href="#cite_note-267">[265]</a> He was also made an honorary trustee of <a href="/wiki/Peking_University" title="Peking University">Peking University</a> in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-268">[266]</a></li> <li>In 1994, he was honored as the 20th <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Fellow_of_the_British_Computer_Society" title="Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society">Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society</a> (DFBCS). In 1999, Gates received <a href="/wiki/New_York_Institute_of_Technology" title="New York Institute of Technology">New York Institute of Technology</a>'s President's Medal.<a href="#cite_note-269">[267]</a></li> <li>Gates was elected a Member of the US <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing".<a href="#cite_note-270">[268]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entomology" title="Entomology">Entomologists</a> named <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates%27_flower_fly" title="Bill Gates' flower fly">Bill Gates' flower fly</a>, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997.<a href="#cite_note-271">[269]</a></li> <li>He was awarded <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association_Honorary_Membership" title="American Library Association Honorary Membership">American Library Association Honorary Membership</a> in 1998.<a href="#cite_note-272">[270]</a></li> <li>In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Awards_for_Public_Service" title="Jefferson Awards for Public Service">Jefferson Award</a> for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.<a href="#cite_note-273">[271]</a></li> <li>Gates was made an Honorary <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (KBE) by Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> in 2005.<a href="#cite_note-274">[272]</a></li> <li>He was given the 2006 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from <a href="/wiki/The_Tech_Awards" title="The Tech Awards">the Tech Awards</a>.<a href="#cite_note-275">[273]</a></li> <li>In January 2006, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Prince_Henry" title="Order of Prince Henry">Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry</a> by the then President of Portugal <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Sampaio" title="Jorge Sampaio">Jorge Sampaio</a>.</li> <li>In November 2006, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Aztec_Eagle" title="Order of the Aztec Eagle">Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle</a>, together with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Insignia of the same order, both for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".<a href="#cite_note-276">[274]</a></li> <li>Gates received the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Bower_Award_for_Business_Leadership" class="mw-redirect" title="Bower Award for Business Leadership">Bower Award for Business Leadership</a> from <a href="/wiki/The_Franklin_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="The Franklin Institute">The Franklin Institute</a> for his achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work.<a href="#cite_note-277">[275]</a></li> <li>Also in 2010, he was honored with the <a href="/wiki/Silver_Buffalo_Award" title="Silver Buffalo Award">Silver Buffalo Award</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Boy Scouts of America">Boy Scouts of America</a>, its highest award for adults, for his service to youth.<a href="#cite_note-SB2010-278">[276]</a></li> <li>According to Forbes, Gates was ranked as the fourth most powerful person in the world in 2012,<a href="#cite_note-279">[277]</a> up from fifth in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-280">[278]</a></li> <li>In 2015, Gates and his wife Melinda received the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a>, India's third-highest civilian award for their social work in the country.<a href="#cite_note-281">[279]</a><a href="#cite_note-282">[280]</a></li> <li>In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> honored Bill and Melinda Gates with the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> for their philanthropic efforts.<a href="#cite_note-283">[281]</a></li> <li>In 2017, <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande" title="François Hollande">François Hollande</a> awarded Bill and Melinda Gates with France's highest national order, as Commanders in <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">the Legion of Honour</a>, for their charity efforts.<a href="#cite_note-284">[282]</a></li> <li>He was elected a foreign member of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Engineering" title="Chinese Academy of Engineering">Chinese Academy of Engineering</a> in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-285">[283]</a></li> <li>In 2019, Gates was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Hawking_Fellowship" title="Hawking Fellowship">Professor Hawking Fellowship</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Union" title="Cambridge Union">Cambridge Union</a> in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-286">[284]</a></li> <li>In 2020, Gates received the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun" title="Order of the Rising Sun">Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun</a> for his contributions to Japan and the world in regard to worldwide technological transformation and advancement of global health.<a href="#cite_note-287">[285]</a></li> <li>In 2021, Gates was nominated at the 11th annual <a href="/wiki/Streamy_Awards" title="Streamy Awards">Streamy Awards</a> for the crossover for his personal YouTube channel.<a href="#cite_note-288">[286]</a></li> <li>In 2022, Gates received the <a href="/wiki/Hilal-e-Pakistan" title="Hilal-e-Pakistan">Hilal-e-Pakistan</a>, the second-highest civilian award in Pakistan for his social work in the country.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(11)"><h2 id="Depiction_in_media">Depiction in media</h2></div><section class="mf-section-11 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-11"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentary_films_about_Gates">Documentary films about Gates</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 210px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" data-alt="video icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7C97C4381B7849D791CD357588C2FE89">The Machine That Changed The World; Interview with Bill Gates, 1990</a> (raw video), 44:03, <a href="/wiki/WGBH_Educational_Foundation" title="WGBH Educational Foundation">Open Vault WGBH</a><a href="#cite_note-wgbhov-289">[287]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_World_(miniseries)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Machine That Changed the World (miniseries)">The Machine That Changed the World</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds" title="Triumph of the Nerds">Triumph of the Nerds</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1" title="Nerds 2.0.1">Nerds 2.0.1</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman%22" title='Waiting for "Superman"'>Waiting for "Superman"</a> (2010)<a href="#cite_note-290">[288]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Virtual_Revolution" title="The Virtual Revolution">The Virtual Revolution</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inside_Bill%27s_Brain:_Decoding_Bill_Gates" title="Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates">Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates</a> (2019)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Feature_films">Feature films</h3></div> <ul><li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley" title="Pirates of Silicon Valley">Pirates of Silicon Valley</a>, a film that chronicles the rise of <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> from the early 1970s to 1997. Gates is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Michael_Hall" title="Anthony Michael Hall">Anthony Michael Hall</a>.</li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Nothing_So_Strange" title="Nothing So Strange">Nothing So Strange</a>, a mockumentary featuring Gates as the subject of a modern assassination. Gates briefly appears at the start, played by Steve Sires.</li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/The_Social_Network" title="The Social Network">The Social Network</a>, a film that chronicles the development of <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>. Gates is portrayed by Steve Sires.<a href="#cite_note-291">[289]</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> vs. Bill Gates: The Competition to Control the Personal Computer, 1974–1999: Original film from the <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic Channel">National Geographic Channel</a> for the <a href="/wiki/American_Genius" title="American Genius">American Genius</a> series.<a href="#cite_note-292">[290]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_and_film_clips">Video and film clips</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_(522695099).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg/220px-Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3076" data-file-height="2194"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 157px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg/220px-Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="157" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg/330px-Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg/440px-Steve_Jobs_and_Bill_Gates_%28522695099%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>With <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> at <a href="/wiki/All_Things_Digital" title="All Things Digital">D: All Things Digital</a> in 2007</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1983: Steve Jobs hosts Gates and others in the "Macintosh dating game" at the <a href="/wiki/Macintosh_128K" title="Macintosh 128K">Macintosh</a> pre-launch event (a parody of the television game show <a href="/wiki/The_Dating_Game" title="The Dating Game">The Dating Game</a>)<a href="#cite_note-293">[291]</a></li> <li>1991: Gates spoke to the <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Macintosh_Users_Group" title="Berkeley Macintosh Users Group">Berkeley Macintosh Users Group</a> lively weekly Thursday night meeting with questions and answers in PSL Hall (renamed Pimentel Hall in 1994)<a href="#cite_note-294">[292]</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a><a href="#cite_note-YouTube=R7x7W4zaroM-295">[293]</a><a href="#cite_note-YouTube=N1Qqq3n_yhE-296">[294]</a><a href="#cite_note-YouTube=6jU7_qQ8Nbc-297">[295]</a></li> <li>2007: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhW8cp15tk">Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together at the D5 Conference</a> on <a href="/wiki/YouTube_video_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="YouTube video (identifier)">YouTube</a>, <a href="/wiki/All_Things_Digital" title="All Things Digital">All Things Digital</a></li> <li>Since 2009, Gates has given numerous <a href="/wiki/TED_(Conference)" class="mw-redirect" title="TED (Conference)">TED talks</a> on current concerns such as innovation, education and fighting global diseases<a href="#cite_note-298">[296]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3></div> Gates was the guest on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a> on January 31, 2016, in which he talked about his relationships with his <a href="/wiki/William_H._Gates_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Gates Sr.">father</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>, meeting <a href="/wiki/Melinda_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Melinda Gates">Melinda Ann French</a>, the start of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> and some of his habits (for example reading <a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a> "from cover to cover every week"). His choice of things to take on a desert island were, for music: "<a href="/wiki/Blue_Skies_(Irving_Berlin_song)" title="Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song)">Blue Skies</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>; a book: <a href="/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature" title="The Better Angels of Our Nature">The Better Angels of Our Nature</a> by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Pinker" title="Steven Pinker">Steven Pinker</a>; and luxury item: a DVD Collection of Lectures from <a href="/wiki/The_Teaching_Company" title="The Teaching Company">The Teaching Company</a>.<a href="#cite_note-299">[297]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3></div> Gates starred as himself in a brief appearance on the <a href="/wiki/Frasier" title="Frasier">Frasier</a> episode “The Two Hundredth Episode".<a href="#cite_note-300">[298]</a> He also made a guest appearance as himself on the TV show <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory" title="The Big Bang Theory">The Big Bang Theory</a>, in an episode titled "<a href="/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory_(season_11)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Big Bang Theory (season 11)">The Gates Excitation</a>".<a href="#cite_note-301">[299]</a> He also appeared in a cameo role in 2019 on the series finale of <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)" title="Silicon Valley (TV series)">Silicon Valley</a>.<a href="#cite_note-302">[300]</a> Gates was parodied in <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a> episode "<a href="/wiki/Das_Bus" title="Das Bus">Das Bus</a>". In 2023, Gates was the interviewee in an episode of the <a href="/wiki/Amol_Rajan" title="Amol Rajan">Amol Rajan</a> Interviews series on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a>,<a href="#cite_note-303">[301]</a> and was the subject of an episode of the UK <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> series The Billionaires Who Made Our World.<a href="#cite_note-304">[302]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(12)"><h2 id="Books_2">Books</h2></div><section class="mf-section-12 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-12"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGates2025" class="citation book cs1">Gates, Bill (February 4, 2025). Source Code: My Beginnings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0593801581" title="Special:BookSources/978-0593801581"><bdi>978-0593801581</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1485475200">1485475200</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Source+Code%3A+My+Beginnings&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Alfred+A.+Knopf&rft.date=2025-02-04&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1485475200&rft.isbn=978-0593801581&rft.aulast=Gates&rft.aufirst=Bill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(13)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div><section class="mf-section-13 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-13"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_History_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Big History Project">Big History Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_richest_Americans_in_history" title="List of richest Americans in history">List of richest Americans in history</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(14)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div><section class="mf-section-14 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-14"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Gates regularly documents his share ownership through public U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="/wiki/Form_4" title="Form 4">Form 4</a> filings.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> His father was named William H. Gates II, but he is now generally known as William H. Gates, Senior to avoid confusion with his son. </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(15)"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div><section class="mf-section-15 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-15"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft/institutional-holdings">MSFT</a> (Holdings), NASDAQ, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111019112613/http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/holdings.asp?symbol=MSFT&selected=MSFT&FormType=form4">archived</a> from the original on October 19, 2011, retrieved April 10, 2016</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=MSFT&rft.pub=NASDAQ&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasdaq.com%2Fsymbol%2Fmsft%2Finstitutional-holdings&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft">MSFT</a> (Symbol), NASDAQ, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160408230653/http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft">archived</a> from the original on April 8, 2016, retrieved April 10, 2016</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=MSFT&rft.pub=NASDAQ&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasdaq.com%2Fsymbol%2Fmsft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Gates">"Bill Gates (American computer programmer, businessman, and philanthropist)"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130328082612/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/226865/Bill-Gates">Archived</a> from the original on March 28, 2013. 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December 9, 2019. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209223844/https://www.geekwire.com/2019/big-fan-bill-gates-makes-appearance-silicon-valley-series-finale-hbo-comedy-logs-off/">Archived</a> from the original on December 9, 2019. 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Channel 4. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230220115531/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-billionaires-who-made-our-world/on-demand/72330-002">Archived</a> from the original on February 20, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Billionaires+Who+Made+Our+World%3A+Bill+Gates&rft.pub=Channel+4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.channel4.com%2Fprogrammes%2Fthe-billionaires-who-made-our-world%2Fon-demand%2F72330-002&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFridson2001" class="citation book cs1">Fridson, Martin (2001). How to Be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth. <a href="/wiki/John_Wiley_%26_Sons" class="mw-redirect" title="John Wiley & Sons">John Wiley & Sons</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-471-41617-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-471-41617-7"><bdi>0-471-41617-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=How+to+Be+a+Billionaire%3A+Proven+Strategies+from+the+Titans+of+Wealth&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-471-41617-7&rft.aulast=Fridson&rft.aufirst=Martin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGates1996" class="citation book cs1">Gates, Bill (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/roadahead00gate_1">The Road Ahead</a>. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin Books</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-026040-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-026040-4"><bdi>0-14-026040-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Road+Ahead&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-14-026040-4&rft.aulast=Gates&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Froadahead00gate_1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLesinski2006" class="citation book cs1">Lesinski, Jeanne M. (2006). Bill Gates (biography). <a href="/wiki/A%26E_Television_Networks" class="mw-redirect" title="A&E Television Networks">A&E Television Networks</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8225-7027-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8225-7027-0"><bdi>0-8225-7027-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bill+Gates&rft.pub=A%26E+Television+Networks&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-8225-7027-0&rft.aulast=Lesinski&rft.aufirst=Jeanne+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManes1994" class="citation book cs1">Manes, Stephen (1994). Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America. <a href="/wiki/Touchstone_Pictures" title="Touchstone Pictures">Touchstone Pictures</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-88074-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-88074-8"><bdi>0-671-88074-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gates%3A+How+Microsoft%27s+Mogul+Reinvented+an+Industry+and+Made+Himself+the+Richest+Man+in+America&rft.pub=Touchstone+Pictures&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-671-88074-8&rft.aulast=Manes&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallace1993" class="citation book cs1">Wallace, James (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/harddrivebillgat00wall_0">Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire</a>. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-471-56886-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-471-56886-4"><bdi>0-471-56886-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hard+Drive%3A+Bill+Gates+and+the+Making+of+the+Microsoft+Empire&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins+Publishers&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-471-56886-4&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fharddrivebillgat00wall_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h3></div> <ul><li>Gates, Bill (2024). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/tech/bill-gates-ai-gps-interview/index.html">Bill Gates Explains How AI Will Change Our Lives in 5 Years</a>". CNN.</li> <li>Gates, Bill (2013). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191102112703/http://www.nicoleguihaume.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/An-exclusive-interview-with-Bill-Gates.pdf">An Exclusive Interview with Bill Gates</a>". Financial Times 1.</li> <li>Gates, Bill. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191102112703/http://www.mountbatteninstitute.org/docs/Bill_Gates_Harvard_Commencement_Address.Pdf">Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement 2007</a>". <a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="The Harvard Gazette">The Harvard Gazette</a> 7 (2007).</li> <li>Kinsley, Michael, and Conor Clarke, Eds. Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders (Simon and Schuster, 2009).</li> <li>National Museum of American History. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm">Bill Gates Interview</a>".</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(16)"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div><section class="mf-section-16 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-16"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBank2001" class="citation book cs1">Bank, David (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/breakingwindowsh00bank">Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft</a>. New York: Free Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-0315-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-0315-1"><bdi>0-7432-0315-1</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/46634139">46634139</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Breaking+Windows%3A+How+Bill+Gates+Fumbled+the+Future+of+Microsoft&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Free+Press&rft.date=2001&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F46634139&rft.isbn=0-7432-0315-1&rft.aulast=Bank&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbreakingwindowsh00bank&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.economist.com/node/11622119">"The Meaning of Bill Gates: As His Reign at Microsoft Comes to an End, so Does the Era He Dominated"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a>. June 28, 2008. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101029233737/https://www.economist.com/node/11622119">Archived</a> from the original on October 29, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Economist&rft.atitle=The+Meaning+of+Bill+Gates%3A+As+His+Reign+at+Microsoft+Comes+to+an+End%2C+so+Does+the+Era+He+Dominated&rft.date=2008-06-28&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fnode%2F11622119&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKildall2004" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Kildall" title="Gary Kildall">Kildall, Gary</a> (October 25, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060404211733/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm">"The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates"</a>. Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm">the original</a> on April 4, 2006. Retrieved June 9, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bloomberg+BusinessWeek&rft.atitle=The+Man+Who+Could+Have+Been+Bill+Gates&rft.date=2004-10-25&rft.aulast=Kildall&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Fmagazine%2Fcontent%2F04_43%2Fb3905109_mz063.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeibovich2002" class="citation book cs1">Leibovich, Mark (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newimperialists00mark">The New Imperialists</a>. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. pp. [ 139–182]. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780735203174" title="Special:BookSources/9780735203174"><bdi>9780735203174</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/47990010">47990010</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+Imperialists&rft.place=Upper+Saddle+River%2C+N.J.&rft.pages=+139-182&rft.pub=Prentice+Hall&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F47990010&rft.isbn=9780735203174&rft.aulast=Leibovich&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnewimperialists00mark&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRivlin1999" class="citation book cs1">Rivlin, Gary (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/plottogetbillgat00rivl">The Plot to Get Bill Gates: An Irreverent Investigation of the World's Richest Man... and the People Who Hate Him</a>. New York: Times Business. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8129-3006-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8129-3006-1"><bdi>0-8129-3006-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Plot+to+Get+Bill+Gates%3A+An+Irreverent+Investigation+of+the+World%27s+Richest+Man...+and+the+People+Who+Hate+Him&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Times+Business&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0-8129-3006-1&rft.aulast=Rivlin&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fplottogetbillgat00rivl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallace1997" class="citation book cs1">Wallace, James (1997). Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace. New York: John Wiley & Sons. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780471180418" title="Special:BookSources/9780471180418"><bdi>9780471180418</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/36201264">36201264</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Overdrive%3A+Bill+Gates+and+the+Race+to+Control+Cyberspace&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F36201264&rft.isbn=9780471180418&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100822154638/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/microsoft.html">"83 Reasons Why Bill Gates's Reign Is Over"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a>. Vol. 6, no. 12. December 1998. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/microsoft.html">the original</a> on August 22, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wired&rft.atitle=83+Reasons+Why+Bill+Gates%27s+Reign+Is+Over&rft.volume=6&rft.issue=12&rft.date=1998-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fwired%2Farchive%2F6.12%2Fmicrosoft.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Gates" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(17)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div><section class="mf-section-17 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-17"> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/">Official website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%A2%E1%88%8D_%E1%8C%8C%E1%89%B5%E1%88%B5" title="ቢል ጌትስ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ቢል ጌትስ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target">अंगिका</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بيل غيتس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بيل غيتس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D4%BF%D5%A7%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%BD" title="Պիլ Կէյթս – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Պիլ Կէյթս" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Արեւմտահայերէն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%A6%9B" title="বিল গেট্‌ছ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="বিল গেট্‌ছ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">অসমীয়া</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">अवधी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Geyts" title="Bill Geyts – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Bill Geyts" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%82%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بیل قئیتس – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بیل قئیتس" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%B8" title="বিল গেটস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বিল গেটস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Banjar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Banyumasan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Біл Гейтс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Біл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Біл Гейтс – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Біл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bislama</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Бил Гейтс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Бил Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiTumbuka</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%DD%A3%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بيل ݣييتس – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="بيل ݣييتس" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">الدارجة</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dz mw-list-item"><a href="https://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8A%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8D_Bill_Gates" title="བིལ་གེ་ཊིས། Bill Gates – Dzongkha" lang="dz" hreflang="dz" data-title="བིལ་གེ་ཊིས། Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="ཇོང་ཁ" data-language-local-name="Dzongkha" class="interlanguage-link-target">ཇོང་ཁ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BB_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%82" title="Μπιλ Γκέιτς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μπιλ Γκέιτς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بیل گیتس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بیل گیتس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ki mw-list-item"><a href="https://ki.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Kikuyu" lang="ki" hreflang="ki" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Gĩkũyũ" data-language-local-name="Kikuyu" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gĩkũyũ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AC%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B2_%E0%AA%97%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%9F%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B8" title="બિલ ગેટ્સ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="બિલ ગેટ્સ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target">ગુજરાતી</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target">गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C_%EA%B2%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%B8%A0" title="빌 게이츠 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="빌 게이츠" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D4%B3%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%BD" title="Բիլ Գեյթս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բիլ Գեյթս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Igbo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81,_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Гейтс, Билл – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Гейтс, Билл" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A1" title="ביל גייטס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ביל גייטס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಬಿಲ್ ಗೇಟ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಬಿಲ್ ಗೇಟ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ბილ გეიტსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბილ გეიტსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%90%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%95%D8%B3" title="بِل گیٹٕس – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="بِل گیٹٕس" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target">कॉशुर / کٲشُر</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9A%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%A5_%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%94" title="ບິລ ເກດ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ບິລ ເກດ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Gates" title="Gulielmus Gates – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gulielmus Gates" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_Geitss" title="Bills Geitss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bills Geitss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ligure</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/bil._geits" title="bil. geits – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="bil. geits" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target">La .lojban.</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%98%D1%82%D1%81" title="Бил Гејтс – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Бил Гејтс" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ബിൽ ഗേറ്റ്സ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബിൽ ഗേറ്റ്സ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ბილ გეიტსი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ბილ გეიტსი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بيل جيتس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بيل جيتس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بیل گیتس – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="بیل گیتس" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%95%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%9C_%EA%AF%92%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%A0%EA%AF%81" title="ꯕꯤꯜ ꯒꯦꯠꯁ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯕꯤꯜ ꯒꯦꯠꯁ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Mirandés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гэйтс – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Билл Гэйтс" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%98%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%82%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA" title="ဘီလ် ဂိတ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဘီလ် ဂိတ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेत्स – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="बिल गेत्स" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84" title="ビル・ゲイツ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ビル・ゲイツ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8D_%E0%AC%97%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%9F%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D" title="ବିଲ୍ ଗେଟ୍ସ୍ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ବିଲ୍ ଗେଟ୍ସ୍" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target">ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gate" title="Bill Gate – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Bill Gate" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%B8" title="ਬਿਲ ਗੇਟਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਬਿਲ ਗੇਟਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B3" title="بل گیٹس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="بل گیٹس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AB%DB%8C%D9%BC" title="بیل ګیټ – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="بیل ګیټ" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%94%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%9B_%E1%9E%A0%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%82%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%8F" title="ប៊ីល ហ្គេត – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ប៊ីល ហ្គេត" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81,_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB" title="Гейтс, Билл – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Гейтс, Билл" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="बिल गेट्स – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="बिल गेट्स" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B6%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%9A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A" title="බිල් ගේට්ස් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="බිල් ගේට්ස්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%8A%D9%BD%D8%B3" title="بل گيٽس – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="بل گيٽس" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target">Soomaaliga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="بیل گەیتس – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="بیل گەیتس" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%98%D1%82%D1%81" title="Бил Гејтс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Бил Гејтс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D" title="பில் கேட்ஸ் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="பில் கேட்ஸ்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taqbaylit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%82%87%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BA%E1%81%B5%E1%80%B5%E1%81%B5%E1%80%BA%E1%82%89" title="ပီႇလ်ၵဵၵ်ႉ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="ပီႇလ်ၵဵၵ်ႉ" data-language-autonym="တႆး" data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target">တႆး</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D" title="బిల్ గేట్స్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="బిల్ గేట్స్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C" title="บิล เกตส์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="บิล เกตส์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Билл Гейтс – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Билл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ge%C3%BDts" title="Bill Geýts – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Bill Geýts" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81" title="Білл Гейтс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Білл Гейтс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B3" title="بل گیٹس – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="بل گیٹس" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%89%D9%84_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89%D8%B3" title="بىل گايتىس – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="بىل گايتىس" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target">ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vèneto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatesi_Bill" title="Gatesi Bill – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Gatesi Bill" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target">Võro</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E8%8C%A8" title="比尔·盖茨 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="比尔·盖茨" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A1" title="ביל געיטס – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="ביל געיטס" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target">ייִדיש</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo mw-list-item"><a href="https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Yoruba" lang="yo" hreflang="yo" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Yorùbá" data-language-local-name="Yoruba" class="interlanguage-link-target">Yorùbá</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E7%88%BE%E8%93%8B%E8%8C%A8" title="比爾蓋茨 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="比爾蓋茨" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">粵語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-diq mw-list-item"><a href="https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Dimli" lang="diq" hreflang="diq" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Zazaki" data-language-local-name="Dimli" class="interlanguage-link-target">Zazaki</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bat-smg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bat-smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bils_Geitsos" title="Bils Geitsos – Samogitian" lang="sgs" hreflang="sgs" data-title="Bils Geitsos" data-language-autonym="Žemaitėška" data-language-local-name="Samogitian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Žemaitėška</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E8%8C%A8" title="比尔·盖茨 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="比尔·盖茨" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-btm mw-list-item"><a href="https://btm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates – Batak Mandailing" lang="btm" hreflang="btm" data-title="Bill Gates" data-language-autonym="Batak Mandailing" 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