Bill Gates, who is already at retirement age (Gates is 68 years old), has no intention of slowing down his work pace.. He said on CNBC’s Make It that he hopes to follow in the footsteps of his longtime friend Warren Buffett, who at the age of 94 serves as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, still comes to the office six days a week and has no plans to retire.
“I hope my health will allow me to be like Warren,” Gates tells CNBC Make It.
Gates still has a lot of work to do
Bill Gates, who still remains Microsoft’s “technology advisor”also deals with activities supporting solutions to global problems. Co-founder of Microsoft spends most of his time is dedicated to funding the world’s most pressing problems, especially disease, poverty, climate change and access to healthcare and educationfor which he uses his fortune, estimated by Forbes at $128 billion.
“We haven’t gotten rid of polio, we haven’t gotten rid of malaria. I’m very, very committed to these things,” Gates says. “We want to cut child deaths in half again, from 5 million to 2.5 million.”
Gates wants to catch up with Buffett
This is the main reason Gates wants to wait at least another 10 years to retire, health permitting, adding that hopes it will be more like 20 or 30 years.
Gates carries out his philanthropic activities through the Gates Foundation.Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation”which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.
