What does bill gates own?

In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and Gates donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion. read more

Bill Gates is the richest man in the world with a net worth of over $86 billion in 2017, according to Forbes magazine. He dropped out of Harvard University and turned into a technology entrepreneur founding Microsoft in 1975. Over decades, Gates successfully built it into a major technology company, earning himself a fortune in the process. read more

It took Gates seven years and $63 million to build his Medina, Washington estate, named Xanadu 2.0 after the fictional home of "Citizen Kane"'s Charles Foster Kane. At 66,000 square feet, the home is absolutely massive, and it's filled with high-tech details. read more