Recent estimates are that Bill Gates owns around 270,000 acres of farmland around the United States. Gates himself has said ...

Bill Gates is giving it all away. The megabucks Microsoft founder’s fortune has plunged a staggering $51 billion in a few days because he’s ramped-up his charitable donations, according to the ...

Bill Gates lost about $52 billion or 30% of his wealth on Thursday. But don't feel bad — his net worth was simply recalculated to reflect the Microsoft cofounder's charitable giving. The recalculation ...

Earlier this year, billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates announced plans to donate the vast majority of his enormous wealth over the next 20 years, and it seems like he is wasting no time in doing so.

America's top philanthropists increased their charitable donations. Their wealth grew faster than their giving. Warren ...

Bill Gates once recalled how a rare 1962 tornado — the first ever recorded in Western Washington — tore through his Seattle neighborhood, damaging his family's home when he was just six years old but ...

"What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, as Thiel recounted. "You know, it would be much worse to ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are exceptions to the idea that dropping out of college leads to entrepreneurial success.

Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999 after founding Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. While Gates has steadily decreased his ownership interest in Microsoft, his wealth continues to grow ...

Melinda French Gates is worth an estimated $29.4 billion, an amount that comes mainly from the division of assets after her divorce from Bill Gates and her subsequent independent investments, ...

Bernard Arnault is chair of LVMH, a group that owns luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Moet & Chandon.