William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates)

Person Multiple Sources Backed by 5 sources 26 connections Score: 1/10 (Very Low) 1955-10-28 Also known as: Bill Gates, William Gates III, Trey, William Henry Gates III

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American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft, became the world's youngest billionaire in 1987 at age 31

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Entities connected to William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates) through shared intermediaries, but not directly linked.

Document Epstein documents (20,000-plus released records)

Connected via: Bill Gates, The Harvard Crimson, Melinda French Gates

Document Jeffrey Epstein Emails

Connected via: Bill Gates, The Harvard Crimson

Person Ghislaine Maxwell

Connected via: Microsoft, Bill Gates

Organization U.S. Southern District of New York

Connected via: Bill Gates, The Harvard Crimson

Person Kathryn Ruemmler

Connected via: Microsoft, Bill Gates

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Event Keynote speech (cancelled India event) - Bill Gates cancelled his scheduled keynote speech in India Credible Reporting
Person Bill Thompson - Thompson succeeded Gates as chairman of Microsoft on February 5, 2014 Credible Reporting
Organization The Harvard Crimson - Gates enrolled at Harvard University in 1973 but dropped out in 1975 to co-found Microsoft, never returning to comple... Official Document

Associated With

Person Paul Allen - Gates co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, had a strained formal business partnership b... Official Document
Person Steve Ballmer - Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft CEO in 2000 Official Document
Person Warren Buffett - Gates and Buffett founded the Giving Pledge in 2010 Official Document
Person Ric Weiland - Weiland was a high school collaborator of Gates, first employee hired at Microsoft, and part of the Lakeside Programm... Credible Reporting
Person Kent Evans - Evans was Gates's best friend and first business partner, killed in a mountain climbing accident in 1971 while workin... Credible Reporting
Organization Computer Center Corporation (CCC) - CCC initially banned Gates and others for exploiting bugs, then hired them to find bugs in exchange for computer time... Credible Reporting
Person Satya Nadella - Gates became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders in 2014, a position he still holds Credible Reporting
Person Ray Ozzie - Gates placed Ray Ozzie in charge of management when he divided responsibilities between successors in 2006 Credible Reporting
Person Craig Mundie - Gates placed Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy when he divided responsibilities between successors... Credible Reporting
Person Harry Lewis - Professor Harry Lewis presented unsolved problems in combinatorics class for which Gates devised a pancake sorting al... Credible Reporting
Person Christos Papadimitriou - Gates's pancake sorting solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christ... Credible Reporting
Person Bill Gates - William H. Gates Sr. is Bill Gates's father Credible Reporting
Person Melinda French Gates - Gates and his then-wife Melinda French Gates co-chaired the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2000 until 2024 when... Official Document

Employed By

Organization Microsoft - Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as its CEO for 25 years, then as president and chairman, later as chief... Official Document
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) - Gates is the sole chair of the Gates Foundation (formerly Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), focusing on philanthropic... Official Document
Organization Traf-O-Data - Gates formed a venture called Traf-O-Data with Paul Allen at age 17 to make traffic counters based on Intel 8008 proc... Credible Reporting
Financial Entity Cascade Investment - Gates is the founder and chairman of Cascade Investment Credible Reporting
Organization BEN - Gates is the founder and chairman of BEN Credible Reporting
Organization TerraPower - Gates is the founder and chairman of TerraPower Credible Reporting
Organization Gates Ventures - Gates is the founder and chairman of Gates Ventures Credible Reporting
Organization Breakthrough Energy - Gates is the founder and chairman of Breakthrough Energy Credible Reporting

Attended

Organization Lakeside School - Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School where he befriended Paul Allen and developed his computing interests Official Document

Located At

Location Seattle, Washington - Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington Official Document

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📖 Wikipedia - Deep Research (Bill Gates)

“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... Gates became the world's then-...”

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