Bill Gates

Since transitioning out of daily operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has concentrated his capital and time on global health, education, agricultural R&D, and climate-mitigation technologies. Alongside his former wife Melinda French Gates (whom he divorced in August 2021 after 27 years of marriage) and longtime ally Warren Buffett, he co-launched The Giving Pledge in 2010 and built the Gates Foundation into the world's largest private charity. Following Melinda's departure from the foundation, Gates became sole Chair and announced in May 2025 that the foundation will spend over $200 billion and permanently shut down on December 31, 2045. In 2026, Gates achieved a major industrial milestone as his advanced nuclear startup TerraPower won U.S. NRC approval and broke ground on its first utility-scale Natrium reactor in Wyoming, even as renewed DOJ/congressional Epstein document releases triggered a closed-door U.S. House Oversight testimony by Gates in June 2026 and prompted Warren Buffett to halt his two-decade annual stock gifts to the Gates Foundation in July 2026.

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