Bill Gates

🇺🇸 United States

Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Records

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Age at First Billion

1 record

5 records

2026Net worth depressed materially by lifetime Gates Foundation donations.
$115Bsrc
2019Jan 1, 2019
$96.5Bsrc
2017Jul 27, 2017
$89.8Bsrc
2016Jul 1, 2016
$77.7Bsrc
2015Jan 1, 2015
$79.2Bsrc

1 record

1999Crossed $100B nominal at the dot-com peak — first person to do so in the modern Forbes era.
$100Bsrc

Sources

2 sources cited on this page

OfficialForbes
Annual World's Billionaires list. Source-of-wealth, country, net worth as of publication.
Community-sourcedWikidata
Cross-cutting structured data via SPARQL. Use as a backbone for entity slugs and IDs; verify numbers against tier-1 sources before publishing.

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