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Microsoft founder Bill Gates explores the making of his internal operating system in new memoir
With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal ...ABC News - 13h -
Bill Gates Just Revealed 3 Unusual Qualities That Helped Make Him a Success
Gates’ memoir ‘Source Code’ comes out February 4.Inc. - 16h -
Bill Gates on wealth, influence and technology
The Microsoft founder gives his verdict on the alliance between Trump and Musk.BBC News - 21h -
5 things to know about Trump's plan to create a sovereign wealth fund
President Trump is taking steps to overhaul the way the U.S. government invests its money and change the nature of America’s financial presence abroad. The president signed an executive order ...The Hill - 5h -
Trump: Sovereign wealth fund could 'perhaps' do something with TikTok
President Trump signed an executive order to work towards establishing a "sovereign wealth fund," and hinted it could potentially be used to make deals with businesses like TikTok.NBC News - 7h -
Trump orders creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund
President Trump is directing his commerce and treasury secretaries to create what's called an American sovereign wealth fund.CBS News - 8h -
Wealth divide will steepen as climate change spikes insurance costs, report finds
Climbing temperatures are sharpening economic divides in American communities, a new report has found. Rising insurance rates are increasingly making broad swaths of the country's biggest cities ...The Hill - 22h -
Bill Gates: We've given away $100bn, but my children won't be poor when I'm gone
The Microsoft co-founder says he enjoys giving away his fortune and it won't leave his kids poor.BBC News - 1d -
How Bill Gates knew he was different
The Harvard dropout revolutionized the computer industry and, later, the world of philanthropy. Now he has been looking back at his childhood, with the first of a three-part autobiography fittingly ...CBS News - 1d -
Source Code by Bill Gates review – growing pains of a computer geek
The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss. The enduring mystery about William Henry Gates III is ...The Guardian - 1d -
Book excerpt: "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates
In his new autobiography, the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his origins, and about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting ...CBS News - 3d -
Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents—and Other Stories of a Wild, Wonky Youth
Terrorizing classmates, spending a night in jail, tripping on LSD: This isn’t the Bill Gates you know.Wired - 3d -
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank
In contrast to the current crop of swaggering tech bros, the Microsoft founder comes across as wry and self-deprecating in this memoir of starting out. Bill Gates is the John McEnroe of the tech ...The Guardian - 3d -
Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires
The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is taking a break from the future to examine his past — and mulling where the billionaires now fit in.The New York Times - 4d -
Bill Gates’s Biggest Regret: Letting an Old Love Slip Away
Bill Gates recently described the dissolution of his 27-year marriage as a painful “mistake.” As he’s learned, you can’t put a price on a relationship that’s seen you through it all.The New York Times - 4d -
Book Review: ‘Source Code,’ by Bill Gates
A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding.The New York Times - 4d -
Bill Gates Just Said 1 Sentence Everyone Who Feels Like a Misfit Needs to Hear
Bill Gates opened up about neurodiversity, his struggles as a kid, and why he’d never take a pill to make him ‘normal.’Inc. - 4d -
Bill Gates says the end of his marriage to Melinda Gates is the mistake he regrets most
Billionaire Bill Gates is opening up about his life and named the end of his 27-year long marriage to Melinda French Gates as his biggest mistake.NBC News - 6d -
Net worth of millennials has quadrupled: Why some call it 'phantom wealth'
Millennials have come a long way since their days of being called lazy or entitled.NBC News - Jan. 27 -
Bill Gates on Musk's growing influence on global politics: 'Insane s‑‑‑'
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discussed tech mogul Elon Musk’s growing influence on global politics during an interview. “You want to promote the right wing but say Nigel Farage is not ...The Hill - Jan. 27 -
Trump Explodes Out of the Gate
For the president’s opponents, it was a week that felt like a decade.The New York Times - Jan. 27 -
Net worth of millennials has quadrupled: Why some call it 'phantom wealth'
Even as millennials became wealthier, inflation and instability have left many feeling financially insecure.CNBC - Jan. 27 -
Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist calls fellow tech titan ‘super-smart’ but guilty of ‘overreach’. Bill Gates has labelled Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians and attempt to ...The Guardian - Jan. 27 -
Inside the race for Greenland's mineral wealth
The territory's untapped mineral wealth has caught the eye of both mining firms and Donald Trump.BBC News - Jan. 27 -
There’s little to keep the stock market down as retiring boomers share their wealth
Market strategist Ed Yardeni: Expect the S&P 500 to hit 7,000 this year and 8,000 in 2026MarketWatch - Jan. 25 -
Bill Gates on His Meeting With Trump, Musk's DOGE, His Childhood
The billionaire spoke with The Wall Street Journal ahead of his coming book, “Source Code.”The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 24 -
Why Age-Gating Social Media is a No-Brainer
This policy has worked with alcohol and tobacco—let’s try it with social media.Inc. - Jan. 24 -
Saudi wealth fund ramps up efforts to tap ETF investors
Public Investment Fund stumps up $200mn as seed investor in SSGA’s Europe-listed bond fund in support of Vision 2030Financial Times - Jan. 21 -
Billionaires' wealth skyrocketing, anti-poverty group says ahead of Davos
Billionaires' wealth soared in 2024, a top anti-poverty group said ahead of an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland of some of the world's political and financial elite.CBS News - Jan. 20 -
Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds
Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals. The wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by $2tn (£1.64tn) in 2024, three times faster than ...The Guardian - Jan. 20 -
Inside "Beyond the Gates," TV's newest soap opera
In the world of daytime network TV, only a handful of long-running soap operas have survived. But in February, CBS is launching a new one: "Beyond the Gates," which traces a prominent African ...CBS News - Jan. 19 -
Independent secures funding from Bill Gates’ foundation
It has given British media group more than $700,000 to fund journalism in ‘under reported’ parts of the worldFinancial Times - Jan. 19 -
Bill Gates on Trump meeting: 'Frankly I was impressed'
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reflected on a recent dinner he had with President-elect Trump in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying he was "impressed" ...The Hill - Jan. 18 -
Bill Gates-Backed Stoke Space Lands $260 Million to Build Out a Fully Reusable Rocket
The rocket startup is eying a niche in the medium-lift launch market.Inc. - Jan. 17 -
The Guardian view on Biden’s warning of oligarchy: Trump and the malefactors of wealth | Editorial
The outgoing president was right, in his farewell address, to warn of the dangers posed by the billionaires around the table. . Aristocrats are “the most difficult Animals to manage, of anything in ...The Guardian - Jan. 16 -
Women held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain
DNA analysis suggests Iron Age societies in Britain were built around women rather than men.BBC News - Jan. 15 -
Warren Buffett Has Already Announced the Beneficiaries of His Fortune After He Dies—and His Pal Bill Gates Isn’t One of Them
The vast majority of Buffett’s wealth will go to the same place.Inc. - Jan. 8 -
This money bias is 'the biggest barrier to building wealth,' says financial psychologist
Putting off some key financial moves because they seem too complex? You could be costing yourself over the long run.CNBC - Jan. 5 -
Polish wealth managers warn against tax changes for family foundations
Structure was set up in 2023 to encourage money to stay in the countryFinancial Times - Jan. 5