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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School, where he befriended Allen and developed his computing interests. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. He served as its CEO for the next 25 years and also became president and chairman of the board when the company was incorporated in 1981. Succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer in 2000, he transitioned to chief software architect, a position he held until 2008. He stepped down as chairman of the board in 2014 and became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds. He resigned from the board in 2020.
Over time, Gates reduced his role at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization, which he and his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, co-chaired from 2000 until 2024. Focusing on areas including health, education, and poverty alleviation, Gates became known for his efforts to combat transmissible diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and polio. After French Gates resigned as co-chair following the couple's divorce, the foundation was renamed the Gates Foundation, with Gates as its sole chair.
Gates is the founder and chairman of several other companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. In 2010, he and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledged to give at least half their wealth to philanthropy. Named as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999, he has received numerous other honors and accolades, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded jointly to him and French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic work. The subject of several documentary films, he published the first of three planned memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025.
Most Popular Bill Gates Trailers
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26 October 2006
Learn from the two richest men in America -- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- as they discuss business and life in this lecture from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln's College of Business Administration.
07 November 2005
On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians from across the globe - asked people not for their money, but for their voice.
22 June 1996
It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are.
30 May 2007
The complete interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the All Things Digitial D5 conference July 7
22 April 2026
At the center of Bitcoin lies the greatest unsolved mystery of the digital age. Who created it, and who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Finding Satoshi presents the conclusion reached after a four-year, evidence-based investigation, drawing on original reporting and rare access to key figures in crypto to uncover the human ideas, motivations, and philosophy behind the code that reshaped global finance.
18 April 2020
A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.
01 January 1987
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.
18 December 2025
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
16 May 2023
This 2024 GLAAD Media Award winning film explores Ric Weiland’s journey as both a trailblazer in the tech world and a quiet, yet transformative philanthropist.
12 September 2024
Oprah Winfrey explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence on people's daily lives, demystifies the technology and empowers viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future.
01 October 2010
Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.
06 November 2001
Der Film portraitiert eine Gruppe von Microsoft-Aussteigern: im Ruhestand mit 32, Multimillionäre und ohne die geringste Idee, was sie mit dem Rest ihres Leben anstellen sollen.
22 June 2021
Bill Gates, the extraordinarily successful American business leader and philanthropist. One of the best-known entrepreneurs, who started a business out of a tiny space and grew it into one of the most powerful companies in the world, Microsoft.
21 December 2011
The Money Programme's Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found.
30 January 2017
The story of the evolution of a boy from Nebraska who became one of the most respected men in the world, and the heroes who helped guide him along the way.
02 March 2023
For so long anyone who dared suggest COVID-19 began in a Wuhan lab was dismissed, criticised and mocked.
15 February 2022
Explore the contradictions at the heart of famed financier Carl Icahn. A polarizing figure described as both an activist investor and a ruthless corporate raider, Icahn rose from modest beginnings in Queens to become one of the richest men in the world, embodying the American Dream.
24 October 2020
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?
08 November 2019
Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.
31 January 1994
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
15 November 2014
Three teenagers battle their way through the world of competitive ping pong with their hearts set on the Olympics.
01 October 2021
Monopoly – Who Owns The World is an independent documentary produced by Tim Geilen. The film shows the institutional investment firms that sit at the top of the complex and opaque corporate pyramid structure.
02 March 2012
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy.
01 March 2018
Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization.
01 January 2012
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched an unusual campaign in June 2010: both agreed to donate half of their fortunes to charity.
21 November 2003
Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg.
27 October 1992
Two brothers, Jake and Max work in product development at the Kitty Carnival Amusement company. The two office workers do not work well together and are sceptical at the new Microsoft Workgroups for Windows operating systems they are being forced to use, but with a looming deadline and some help from Bill Gates, they soon learn to love it, and go on to start their own successful company.
07 November 2020
With humor and scientific rigor, this documentary lifts the veil on this eternal taboo and takes us all over the world to discover what the future holds for our toilets.
01 August 2016
Alexandra Pelosi looks at money in politics and interviews wealthy donors to Republican and Democratic parties to ask them about their contributions and philosophies.
30 October 1995
Bill Gates gives a speech about Windows 95 and DirectX, starring as the marine from the hit game Doom.
24 September 2005
The PC has changed the world of work and communication possibilities faster and more profoundly than any other technical invention before.
