Bill Gates
Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower
Founder
Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an organization whose goal is improving equity in the United States and around the world. Bill is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare, interdisciplinary education, and technology.
