Bill Gates

Why the rhetoric surrounding wealth inequality is especially acute this election season among Democratic presidential candidates — and will continue to be so.

Billionaire Bill Gates warned about the dangers of a global viral outbreak years before the coronavirus pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of people and upended the global economy. But Gates now wishes he’d been more urgent in order to convince global leaders to take the threat of a ‘once-in-a-century pathogen’ more seriously, he told The Wall Street Journal.

Warren Buffett’s longtime friend and business partner Charlie Munger says the “20-slot” rule for success had always been obvious to him “since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to many other people.”

“A number of years ago, we talked about, ‘What if there wasn’t clean water? What if there wasn’t enough food? Where might we go? What might we do as a family?'” Melinda Gates told BBC Radio on Thursday.

Billionaire Bill Gates has been outspoken about steps global leaders need to take to combat the spread of coronavirus. Now, an analysis of TV and social media by The New York Times and Zignal Labs shows that Gates is the leading target of conspiracy theorists who are making false claims linking the billionaire to the deadly pandemic.

Billionaire Bill Gates is a top target for conspiracy theories related to the coronavirus pandemic and a potential Covid-19 vaccine. “It’s almost hard to deny this stuff because it’s so stupid or strange,” he said.

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, said he learned meditation tools from the book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” by Yuval Noah Harari to help him make better decisions.

The state of the Covid-19 pandemic on both a global and national scale, is “more bleak than I would have expected,” Bill Gates said on CNN’s “Coronavirus Town Hall” Thursday.

Smart people make not-so-smart decisions all the time. Even legendary billionaire investor Warren Buffett has long said that IQ isn’t the single defining factor to successful outcomes.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told BBC Radio 4 that he memorized his employees’ license plate numbers to track their work hours.

“As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse,” Bill Gates said. The US should create the equivalent of the NIH for energy to help prepare.

Climate change is transforming what consumers want and how businesses operate. Here are five major trends which are changing shopping as retailers ‘go green.’

Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion.

As 2020 draws to a close, CNBC Make It looks at some of the major breakthroughs achieved this year and the positive shifts they foretell for 2021 and beyond.

What Bill Gates understands is that you can only be an optimist in the long run if you’re pessimistic enough to survive the short run.

Big Tech got much bigger in 2020, and Tesla joined the pack of mega-cap tech stocks after climbing ninefold.

“[T]he hope you feed with your gift is likely to feed your own,” MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, said Tuesday after giving away $4 billion.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tells CNBC he was given bitcoin once as a birthday present, but he sold shortly after.

The billionaire philanthropist shared what the Biden administration can do to handle future pandemics during an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Amazon, Panasonic and recycling start-ups are preparing for a tsunami of demand for battery recycling as the electric car market grows.