Bill Gates
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Bill Gates

United States 70 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Microsoft
Industry
Technology
Residence
Medina, Washington
Organization
Chairman at The Gates Foundation
Education
Harvard University (Drop Out)
Marital Status
Divorced
Children
3

Assets

  • Arch Capital Group
    0 shares @ $102.01
    $0
    ACGL-US
  • Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc
    0 shares @ $8.18
    $0
    ARCO-US
  • AutoNation Inc.
    7,062,000 shares @ $187.65
    $1,325,184,300
    AN-US
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Cl A)
    4,350 shares @ $748250.00
    $3,254,887,500
    BRK.A-US
  • Canadian National Railway Co.
    3,539,000 shares @ $122.68
    $434,164,520
    CNI-US
  • Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A.B de C.V.
    0 shares @ $104.53
    $0
    KOF-US
  • Deere & Co
    19,771,000 shares @ $596.74
    $11,798,146,540
    DE-US
  • Ecolab
    29,178,000 shares @ $274.12
    $7,998,273,360
    ECL-US
  • Evolv Technologies Holdings
    18,659,000 shares @ $6.05
    $112,886,950
    EVLV-US
  • Exicure
    0 shares @ $1.70
    $0
    XCUR-US
  • Fomento de Construcciones y Contrata
    8,533,000 shares @ $14.66
    $125,077,818
    FCC-ES
  • Fomento Economico Mex-SP ADR
    27,900,000 shares @ $127.80
    $3,565,620,000
    FMX-US
  • Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings
    3,797,000 shares @ $9.07
    $34,438,790
    DNA-US
  • Givaudan S.A.
    950,000 shares @ $4252.57
    $4,039,945,416
    GIVN-CH
  • Grupo Televisa S.A.B Unit Class A (TLEVISACPO-MX)
    0 shares @ $0.55
    $0
    TLEVISACPO-MX
  • Heineken Holding
    6,534,000 shares @ $78.78
    $514,741,139
    HEIO-NL
  • Microsoft
    22,975,000 shares @ $383.34
    $8,807,236,500
    MSFT-US
  • OCI NV
    0 shares @ $4.67
    $0
    OCI-NL
  • Orascom Construction Industries S.A.
    0 shares @ $4.46
    $0
    OCIC-EG
  • Otter Tail Corp.
    2,973,000 shares @ $89.57
    $266,291,610
    OTTR-US
  • Republic Services
    109,812,000 shares @ $220.46
    $24,209,153,520
    RSG-US
  • Sika
    0 shares @ $201.28
    $0
    SIKA-CH
  • Vicarious Surgical
    603,000 shares @ $0.16
    $95,107
    RBOT-US
  • Vroom
    0 shares @ $6.00
    $0
    VRMMQ-US
  • Waste Management
    0 shares @ $233.94
    $0
    WM-US

Biography

Bill Gates helped usher in huge changes in personal technology with software firm Microsoft; now he's focused on giving away his massive fortune.

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.

After Gates donated Microsoft shares worth billions to the trust that funds the Gates Foundation in 2022, his Microsoft stake is now less than 1%, Forbes estimates.

In 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates each announced they were ending their marriage after 27 years. He is now the sole chairman of the charitable Gates Foundation.

Gates, who's donated more than $59 billion to the Gates Foundation, announced in May 2025 that the foundation will shut down in 20 years.

About

Gates has spent nearly two decades and more than $1 billion supporting a nuclear power company,Terrapower, that is aiming to complete its first reactor by 2030.

Gates took a break from classes his senior year in high school to do programming with his friend Paul Allen at a power plant in North Bonneville, Washington.