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Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality

By Whizy Kim

The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

By Whizy Kim

Warren Buffett defends his approach to philanthropy as he quits the Gates Foundation board

By Rebecca Heilweil

The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest private farmland owner in the US

By Rebecca Heilweil

Bill Gates will never be the same

By Theodore Schleifer

The biggest impact of the Gates divorce may have nothing to do with the Gates Foundation

By Theodore Schleifer

Bill and Melinda Gates’s divorce could rock the world of charity

By Theodore Schleifer

Tech billionaires are staying “very, very quiet” on proposals to tax their wealth

By Theodore Schleifer

Bill Gates is spending $150 million to try to make a coronavirus vaccine as cheap as $3

By Theodore Schleifer

Extraordinary Twitter hack compromises some of the world’s most prominent accounts

By Theodore Schleifer

Bill Gates has an idea for how to get billionaires to donate more for coronavirus

By Theodore Schleifer

Tech billionaires are already mounting a pressure campaign to prevent the next pandemic

By Theodore Schleifer

Andrew Cuomo is leaning on tech billionaires to help New York rebuild

By Theodore Schleifer

Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply “ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner”

By Theodore Schleifer

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are stepping in on the coronavirus where the government has failed

By Theodore Schleifer

A new MIT report on Jeffrey Epstein raises questions about how much to blame billionaires like Bill Gates

By Theodore Schleifer

The Gates Foundation has enormous impact. Its CEO leaving could have an enormous impact, too.

By Theodore Schleifer

Rockefeller Foundation president Raj Shah: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says

By Eric Johnson

Elon Musk and Bill Gates are trying to do something about global warming. David Wallace-Wells asks, where is everyone else?

By Eric Johnson

Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. What good will he do with all that money?

By Jason Del Rey

Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. This is how he gives away his billions.

By Rani Molla

Bill Gates joins the roster of big names behind trucking startup Convoy

By Theodore Schleifer

Walt Mossberg, Bill Gates and the late-night Taco Bell run that never happened

By Peter Kafka

Bill Gates says robots that steal human jobs should pay taxes

By April Glaser

Bill Gates says investing in clean energy makes sense even if you don’t believe in climate change

By Ina Fried

Bill Gates insists we can make energy breakthroughs, even under President Trump

By Ina Fried

Bill Gates, Jack Ma and John Doerr are pouring $1 billion into a clean energy fund

By Ina Fried

These were Bill Gates’s five favorite books of the year

By Ina Fried

Bill Gates talks about why artificial intelligence is nearly here and how to solve two big problems it creates

By Ina Fried

In Reddit AMA, Bill Gates Spouts Another Nothingburger on Apple-FBI Fight

By Noah Kulwin

Bill Gates: The Energy Breakthrough That Will 'Save Our Planet' Is Less Than 15 Years Away

By Ezra Klein

See if You Can Decipher Bill Gates's Take on Apple-FBI Standoff (Poll)

By Mark Bergen

Beyoncé Gives Bill Gates a Shoutout in Her Amazing New Video

By Arik Hesseldahl

Donald Trump Thinks He Can Call Bill Gates to 'Close Up' the Internet

By Nick Statt

Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Other Tech Billionaires Band Together for Clean Energy Fund

By Mark Bergen

Here's the Email Bill Gates Sent Commemorating Microsoft's Fortieth Birthday

By Ina Fried

Bill Gates Tells Re/code Why We Should Worry About Disease Epidemics, Artificial Intelligence

By Ina Fried

Inside the Mock Ebola Hospital Bill Gates Set Up at TED (Video)

By Ina Fried

Bill Gates on How the Ebola Outbreak Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Epidemic

By Ina Fried

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