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.

2 days ago · Bill Gates doing math on the chalkboard at high school in 1973. Mr. Gates said that if his teenage self were diagnosed now, he would probably be told he was on the spectrum. Credit... via Gates Family

1 day ago · In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—a coder who had figured out how to run a business, and who then seemed to be running the world.

4 days ago · Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his own words with the memoir Source Code, being released on Feb. 4 "My parents and early friends put me in a position to have ...

4 days ago · Bill Gates, the visionary computer programmer and co-founder of Microsoft, revolutionized the technology industry with his innovations and became one of the world’s most influential philanthropists.

2 days ago · Bill Gates diversified his fortune from software firm Microsoft into dozens of holdings, including waste disposal firm Republic Services and tractor maker Deere & Co.

Apr 3, 2014 · Entrepreneur Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world.