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The following 10 books have all been picked from the past few years of Gates' summer reading lists. If you're looking to be inspired and learn something, pick up one or more of these Bill Gates' recommended books.

The political network backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch has unveiled a multi-year, multimillion dollar plan to oppose the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum implemented by President Donald Trump and his administration.

Microsoft announced last week that it was buying the software development platform GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock – making its founders instant billionaires.

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. He recently sat down for a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session and shared two key pieces of advice for investors and aspiring investors.

Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge in 2010 with 40 members who pledged to give at least half of their personal wealth away to philanthropy during their lifetimes. Since then, 183 people from 22 countries have joined the pledge.

Jack Dorsey had a heck of a month in May. The co-founder of Twitter and founder of Square has seen his net worth skyrocket in the past month thanks to his stakes in those two companies.

Uber's Chief Executive Officer, Dara Khosrowshahi, gave Buffett a counteroffer that involved decreasing the investment from $3 billion to $2 billion, but they still weren't able to reach an agreement.

In 1981, Howard Schultz walked into a small coffee shop called Starbucks for the first time. Fast forward a few decades and has grown the company to more than 28,000 locations in 77 countries. Now, he is stepping down from Starbucks amid speculation that he's mounting a 2020 Presidential campaign.

If you've ever dreamed of bending the ear of the Oracle of Omaha, you recently had the chance. For the 19th straight year, bidding took place for lunch for you and seven friends with billionaire Warren Buffett.

It wasn't all that long ago that NASCAR was big business. Races were jam packed with spectators. Nearly every weekend you could find a race on television. Today, there's a different story surrounding NASCAR. Declining attendance and a waning taste for the high-octane world of stock car racing has left the sport vulnerable to sale.

These 11 women are some of the youngest and wealthiest female billionaires in the world. Some inherited their family's money, others inherited the family business, and two who founded their own billion dollar-businesses.

There is drama in the billionaire media mogul set. Rupert Murdoch's bitter rival, Comcast owner Brian Roberts, is reportedly complicating Murdoch's plan to sell his Fox assets to Disney for $52.4 billion.

It all started in 2000, when Buffett's late wife Susie came up with the idea to auction off lunch with her famous, wealthy husband, and it's still going on to this day.

On Tuesday, 2.5 million shares owned by Koum were vested. He held back about half of them for tax obligations according to the regulatory filing. He sold the rest of those shares on Wednesday.

Elon Musk is having a strange day. Not that that is unusual for him. After all, he's been known to take to Twitter to spout off on some truly bizarre theories. That's exactly what he did early Friday morning.