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Books by Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a co-founder of Microsoft, where he served as CEO until 2000 and as chairman until 2014. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he has been one of the world's largest funders of global health and development programs. His climate work is channeled primarily through Breakthrough Energy, a coalition of investors funding clean energy research. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster draws on more than a decade of study and investment in energy technology. Gates also writes regularly at gatesnotes.com, where he reviews books and discusses science, technology, and policy.