Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates holds roughly $138 billion in 2026, with his wealth anchored in a diversified portfolio managed by Cascade Investment LLC spanning Caterpillar, Canadian National Rail, and Four Seasons Hotels rather than Microsoft stock alone. Gates donated over $60 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has saved an estimated 6 million lives through polio eradication, malaria prevention, and global vaccine access programs in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, took it public in 1986, and stepped back from the board in 2020 to focus entirely on philanthropy and climate technology investment.
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