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    1970s and 1980s. Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gates led the company...
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation...
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    Washington State Bar associations. He was the father of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, in 1925, and was the...
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    Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion incorporates technology...
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  • also refer to: Bill Gates Sr. (1925–2020), American attorney and philanthropist, father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Willie Gates (born 1987), U...
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    at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful...
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  • The firm is distinct from Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation although Gates uses it to support the Foundation's projects. Areas...
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  • including Gates being caked in Belgium by Noël Godin, while on a visit to European Union officials. Bill Gates Melinda Gates Kristi Gates, sister of Bill Libby...
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    eighth-richest person with a net worth of $125.4 billion. Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980, and subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford...
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  • children, one of whom is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In 1975, Governor Daniel J. Evans appointed Gates to the board of regents for her alma mater,...
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    centibillionaire included in the ranking, surpassing Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who had topped the list 18 of the previous 24 years. In 2022, after topping...
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    : 323–324  On January 13, 2000, Bill Gates handed over the CEO position to Steve Ballmer, an old college friend of Gates and employee of the company since...
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    Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly endemic to Costa Rica named after Bill Gates. Another fly found in similar habitats was named...
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  • Trust and Bill Gates, but did not announce this until February 2017. Losses increased from €5.4m in 2014 to €6.2m in 2015, but ResearchGate's CEO expressed...
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    Putin 3. Donald Trump 4. Angela Merkel 5. Jeff Bezos 6. Pope Francis 7. Bill Gates 8. Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud 9. Narendra Modi 10. Larry Page Note: No...
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  • computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its current best-selling products...
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  • biography The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates (c. 1908) was authored by Iola Beebe, his mother-in-law. Gates was known to be at the gold fields of...
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    The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than...
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  • of the Seattle Art Museum. In 1996, she married Bill Gates Sr., the father of Bill Gates. Gates holds a B.A. degree in art history from Stanford University...
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  • established in 1999 and funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates Millennium Scholars are provided with a full...
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    died in 1937, about $24 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018. Meanwhile, Bill Gates in 1999 was worth nearly $150 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018. The...
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    health claims have targeted such prominent figures as Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and Joe Biden. He has written books including The Real Anthony Fauci...
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  • Michael Larson (businessman) (category Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people)
    manager. He is the chief investment officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Bill Gates' personal fortune through Cascade Investment. He assumed...
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  • cream pie in the face of the American businessman and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, who was on a visit to Brussels at the time. (in French) Caroline Hanotte...
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    Warren Buffett and ahead of Bill Gates. On 11 March 2009, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's third-richest person, behind Gates and Buffett and ahead of Larry...
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  • History of Humankind". RSB. Retrieved 2019-07-02. Gates, Bill (2016-05-20). "My 10 Favorite Books: Bill Gates". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved...
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    unseated Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world. Bezos would continue to sporadically surpass Gates throughout the month of October...
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  • Traf-O-Data (category Bill Gates)
    Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data...
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  • father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart merged with Preston Gates in 2007 to form K&L Gates, LLP. Measured by headcount, it...
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    after the 1988 "Imported Vehicle Safety Compliance Act". Otis Chandler, Bill Gates, Bruce Canepa, and others managed to convince the US government to allow...
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