LONDON -- Not that long ago Salman Khan thought YouTube was only ''for cats playing the piano. No place for serious mathematics.'' With more than 3.5 million students watching his educational videos every month, the founder of Khan Academy has long since changed his mind. While living in Boston Mr. Khan began the online academy as a way of tutoring...
OVER the past 30 years, as the gap between wealthy and poor grew ever wider, total philanthropic giving almost tripled, according to annual estimates published by the Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. In an age of widening partisanship and plummeting trust in government, this outpouring of philanthropy has...
To the Editor: In ''The Problem With Flat Tax Fever'' (Economic View, Nov. 6), Robert H. Frank says that flat taxes have been embraced by most of the current Republican presidential candidates and that such taxes would increase inequalities by penalizing low- and middle-income groups while rewarding the wealthy few. He sees that as a problem, but...
William Henry Gates III (født 28. oktober 1955), bedst kendt som Bill Gates, er med-grundlægger, nuværende bestyrelsesformand og hovedsoftwarearkitekt for Microsoft. Per 2009, er han den rigeste privatperson i verden og det menes at han tjener 232 dollar i sekundet.
Gates er en af de mest kendte iværksættere i PC-branchen. I forretningskredse er han respekteret for sit intellekt, sin evne til at forudse udviklingen på markedet og sit høje ambitionsniveau. Derudover har hans forretningsmetoder været genstand for kritik. I adskillige lande har han således tabt retssager, bl.a. i USA.
Efter at have samlet sin formue har Bill Gates vist sig som filantrop. I januar 2000 grundlagde han sammen med sin hustru The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, en velgørende organisation med foreløbig 27 milliarder dollar til rådighed. I alt har han doneret omkring 51% af sin samlede formue til velgørende formål og han har (ifølge Forbes) givet mere til velgørenhed end nogen anden person. Fold ud