Bill Gates
Co-founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Net worth $86 B
From his perch atop the world's largest private charitable
foundation, Bill Gates keeps pushing to save lives in the developing world
through efforts to eliminate polio, attack malaria and expand childhood
vaccinations. The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation is also working to improve K-12 education in the U.S., an area in
which it's had fewer tangible results.The richest person in the world for 18
out of the past 23 years, Gates stepped down as Microsoft chairman in 2014 but
remains a technology advisor and board member of the company he cofounded in
1975. Gates sells his Microsoft shares on a regular basis and now owns 2.3% of
the company, which in turn accounts for 13% of his fortune. He also has
investments in Canadian National Railway, tractor maker Deere & Co. and car
dealer AutoNation. In December 2016, Gates announced the creation of a $1
billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people -
including Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and Alibaba founder Jack Ma - to invest in
new forms of clean energy.


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