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Fortune
Alena Botros

Bill Gates just wrote his annual giving letter, and he says this man is his 'secret weapon'

Photo of Bill Gates. (Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world, and he’s vowed to give away the majority of his wealth. 

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he founded with his now ex-wife in 2000, has donated nearly $66 billion since it began, and every year, Gates writes a letter about what the foundation has been up to and his outlook for next year. 

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