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"What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, as Thiel recounted. "You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates."

One year since the philanthropist left the Gates Foundation, she’s still figuring things out—but there’s one cause she’s committed to for life.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates highlighted how a small group of IIT graduates helped transform Microsoft's engineering capabilities at a time when U.S. visa policies are sparking global debate.

Abigail Disney previously said the need to tax rich people like her “has never been so dire.”

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates has launched a $100 million initiative to address the severe underfunding of women's health research, her firm, the Pivotal Ventures, announced on Sept. 10.

A billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates may be among the world's richest philanthropists, but when it comes to their 23-year-old daughter Phoebe's first company, the only thing they offered was advice, not cash.

Before launching her $8 million startup, Phoebe Gates turned to her billionaire founder parents for advice. After all, when your dad is the cofounder of Microsoft, he might know a thing or two about building a business.

Bill Gates once handed over a signed $1 bill to concede an argument, a rare souvenir that former Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan recently revealed he has framed.

NYU professor and seasoned business leader Suzy Welch says that handing out business cards at industry functions won’t lead to success. Melinda French Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Gayle King have also leaned on friends for professional growth.

The U.S.’s 1,135 billionaires are sitting on a collective $5.7 trillion, but few are giving back through philanthropy: They've only pledged or donated 3% of that in the last decade.

When Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett unveiled the Giving Pledge in 2010, it sounded almost radical: convince the world's richest to part with at least half their fortunes for the greater good.