Bill Gates

Microsoft Corporation‘s (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder Bill Gates said that it could take three to five years to develop logical quantum computing qubits while immediately adding that the timeline could be longer. What Happened: Gates, who is invested in the quantum computing company IonQ Inc....

Harry Lewis, the former Harvard professor of Bill Gates, recently expressed that Gates’ decision to drop out of Harvard to start Microsoft did not come as a surprise to him. What Happened: Lewis, who taught Gates applied mathematics at Harvard, remembered the future billionaire as being ...

Bill Gates is recommending a book that could help people understand the massive changes artificial intelligence is bringing. It's called The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma and was written by Mustafa Suleyman, a key figure in AI who cofounded DeepMind...

Public speaking might look effortless for tech titans, but Nvidia Corporation CEO Jensen Huang and other Silicon Valley leaders, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett, have all admitted to struggling with stage fright. What Happened: Last year in December, Huang, known for his...

Back in 2017 – long before ChatGPT became a household name and artificial intelligence started raising existential questions – Bill Gates floated a bold idea: tax the robots. The Microsoft cofounder suggested that companies deploying automation to replace human workers should pay taxes on those...

Editor's Note: Corrections have been made below to reflect updated information retrieved from representatives of Bill Gates' team. Bill Gates is one of the biggest supporters of fighting climate change, but his use of private jets makes some people question his seriousness. Despite his efforts to...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates offered his perspective on a range of subjects, including President Donald Trump’s reform task force and the Department of Government Efficiency on Sunday. What Happened: A Wall Street Journal interview revealed that Gates is in favor of the Elon Musk-led task...

In his upcoming memoir, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates suggests that he may be neurodivergent, stating that if he were a child today, he would likely be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. What Happened: As revealed in an excerpt published by The Wall Street Journal, Gates...

Microsoft cofounder and America's largest private farmland owner Bill Gates ranks 43rd on the 2025 Land Report 100 with 275,000 acres, but his influence extends far beyond agriculture. In June 2024, Gates made headlines by breaking ground on what he described as "the most advanced nuclear facility...

When you hold the title of richest man in the world for 18 years, you will have a few quirks. Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, may now be known for his philanthropy and thoughtful demeanor. Still, in the early days of building his tech empire, he was something else entirely – a self-...

When most people think of Bill Gates, they picture the bespectacled tech visionary who cofounded Microsoft, revolutionized personal computing and went on to dedicate his fortune to tackling some of the world's toughest problems. But the man behind the billions wasn't always known for his...

What's left on the bucket list of a billionaire who has seemingly done it all? For Bill Gates, the answer is unexpectedly simple: "Don't die." The quip came during a 2013 Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), where Gates, then the cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, fielded questions about...

Learning how to achieve success by studying the work of successful people who came before you can be an effective tactic, especially in the world of investing. That's why so many people closely watch and emulate the financial moves of tech titans like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. If you fall into...

Raising children with good values is a challenge for any parent, but it gets even trickier when you're among the richest people in the world.  Bill and Melinda Gates, despite their multi-billion-dollar net worth, made headlines for their decision to raise their three children – Jennifer, Rory...

Bill Gates is turning heads again, but not for anything tech-related. While Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) remains his largest holding (about $15.4 billion) in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation portfolio, Gates has been making some surprising moves.  Over the past year, he sold nearly a quarter...