Gates powers a wide range of industrial applications — from data centers, food and beverage, and warehouse logistics to off-highway equipment used to support agriculture, forestry, construction, mining, or oil and gas.
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.
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Gates, a computer enthusiast from a young age, dropped out of Harvard to cofound Microsoft with Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975, hoping to capitalize on the spread of personal computers.
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Tech billionaire Bill Gates is the latest high-profile name to testify before Congress about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Gates ‘spoke candidly’ about Epstein ties at a Gates Foundation meeting, spokesperson says February 26 47
Bill Gates will sit for an interviews before the House oversight committee on June 10 to discuss his dealings with the late Jeffrey Epstein.