Bill Gates
Biografia
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 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School, where he befriended Allen and developed his computing interests. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. He served as its CEO for the next 25 years and also became president and chairman of the board when the company was incorporated in 1981. Succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer in 2000, he transitioned to chief software architect, a position he held until 2008. He stepped down as chairman of the board in 2014 and became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds. He resigned from the board in 2020. Over time, Gates reduced his role at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization, which he and his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, co-chaired from 2000 until 2024. Focusing on areas including health, education, and poverty alleviation, Gates became known for his efforts to combat transmissible diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and polio. After French Gates resigned as co-chair following the couple's divorce, the foundation was renamed the Gates Foundation, with Gates as its sole chair. Gates is the founder and chairman of several other companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. In 2010, he and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledged to give at least half their wealth to philanthropy. Named as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999, he has received numerous other honors and accolades, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded jointly to him and French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic work. The subject of several documentary films, he published the first of three planned memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Gates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Ameryko, jaka jesteś?
Serial • 2026
jako Self (archive footage)
Finding Satoshi
Film • 2026
jako Self
1975: Rok, który zmienił Amerykę
Film • 2025
jako Self
Co dalej? Przyszłość oczami Billa Gatesa
Serial • 2024
jako Self
AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special
Film • 2024
jako Self
Climate Change – the World's Most Dangerous Show
Serial • 2023
jako Self
Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story
Film • 2023
jako Self
Lab Leak Liars: How China and Authorities Deceived Us
Film • 2023
jako Self
Carl Icahn Niespokojny miliarder
Film • 2022
jako Self
Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure
Serial • 2022
jako Self (archive footage)
Power On: Historia konsoli Xbox
Serial • 2021
jako Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Monopoly: Who Owns the World?
Film • 2021
jako Self (archive footage)
Amol Rajan Interviews
Serial • 2021
jako Self - Interviewed Guest
Tech Billionaires: Bill Gates
Film • 2021
jako Himself
Toilettes sans tabou
Film • 2020
jako Bill Gates
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Film • 2020
jako Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Pandemic: The People, The Conspiracy, The Journey
Film • 2020
Wyjaśniamy: Koronawirus
Serial • 2020
jako Self
One World: Together at Home
Film • 2020
jako Self
Retro Tech
Serial • 2019
jako Self - Environmentalist & Philanthropist
Aces & Knaves
Film • 2019
jako Self
Maischberger
Serial • 2019
jako Self
W głowie Billa Gatesa
Serial • 2019
jako Self
Axios
Serial • 2018
jako Self
Być patriotą — zaprasza Hasan Minhaj
Serial • 2018
jako Self (archive footage)
유 퀴즈 온 더 블럭
Serial • 2018
jako Self
Explained
Serial • 2018
jako Self
trustWHO
Film • 2018
jako Self (archive footage)
Mojego następnego gościa nie trzeba nikomu przedstawiać – zaprasza David Letterman
Serial • 2018
jako Self
Trump: Amerykański sen
Serial • 2017
jako Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The New Fire
Film • 2017
jako Self
Код доступа
Serial • 2017
jako Self
Mosquito: Judgment Day For A Killer
Film • 2017
Becoming Warren Buffett
Film • 2017
jako Himself (archive footage)
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
Film • 2016
jako Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Serial • 2015
jako Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Serial • 2015
jako Self - Guest
Top Spin
Film • 2014
jako Self - CEO, Microsoft
Dolina Krzemowa
Serial • 2014
jako Bill Gates
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Serial • 2014
jako Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Serial • 2014
jako Self
Duels
Serial • 2014
jako Self
Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius
Film • 2012
jako Self - Microsoft Founder
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
Film • 2012
jako Self (archive footage)
Das Milliardenversprechen
Film • 2012
jako Himself
Bill Gates. Jak maniak komputerowy zmienił oblicze świata
Film • 2011
jako himself
Freakonomics
Film • 2010
jako Himself
Roslings värld
Film • 2009
jako Self - (archive footage)
Q&A
Serial • 2008
jako Self - Panellist
Teoria wielkiego podrywu
Serial • 2007
jako Bill Gates
All Things Digital: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Film • 2007
jako Himself
Buffett and Gates Go Back to School
Film • 2006
jako Himself
Live 8
Film • 2005
jako Self
Eine kurze Geschichte des PCs
Film • 2005
jako Self
Unsere Besten
Serial • 2003
jako Self
Nadprodukcja. Terror konsumpcji
Film • 2003
jako Self
Leben nach Microsoft
Film • 2001
jako himself
Click
Serial • 2000
jako Self
maybrit illner
Serial • 1999
jako Self
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
Serial • 1998
jako Himself (co-founder, Microsoft)
Sabine Christiansen
Serial • 1998
jako Self
Im Dialog
Serial • 1997
jako self
The Daily Show
Serial • 1996
jako Self - Guest
The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
Film • 1996
jako Self - Co-Founder, Microsoft
Triumph of the Nerds
Serial • 1996
Microsoft Judgment Day: Doom
Film • 1995
jako William J. Blazkowicz III (Doom Slayer)
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Film • 1994
jako Self
Frasier
Serial • 1993
jako Bill Gates
Microsoft: How to Succeed in Business with Workgroup Computing
Film • 1992
jako Self
Countryfile
Serial • 1988
jako Self
Citizen Steve
Film • 1987
jako Self - Businessman
Newsnight
Serial • 1980
jako Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
Serial • 1979
jako Self
60 Minutes
Serial • 1968
jako Self
Bambi
Serial • 1948
jako Self