Bill Gates may be best known as the brain behind Microsoft, but before he became one of the richest men in the world, he was a young tech geek with a heavy foot on the gas pedal. Long before self ...

These days, we often hear about the importance of failure and the role it may play in launching or advancing our careers. It ...

Bloomberg recalculated Bill Gates' net worth as $52 billion lower to reflect charitable giving, sending him seven places down ...

Billionaire Bill Gates was once crowned the richest man in the world for 18 years, but now as his quest to not die rich ...

Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world's first “software ...

Microsoft has come a long way since it was started by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Allen stepped away from the company in 1983 due to his Hodgkin's disease diagnosis, but remained ...