Articles about Bill Gates – Page 14 of 24

Do introverts make better CEOs? Study suggests leaders like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg see stronger returns

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” You don’t have to look much farther than the legacies of… Read More

Influencing the influencers: Where tech industry analysts look for expertise and information

Industry analysts play a large role in helping corporate technology buyers make wise decisions (and sometimes in helping journalists understand technology).… Read More

Bill Gates: Why young entrepreneurs are Africa’s greatest hope

Bill Gates believes countries throughout Africa can obtain economic prosperity and fairly distributed wealth — but only by mobilizing the… Read More

Bill Gates talks Trump and Clinton and his hope to continue global health efforts with either

Bill Gates has spent years working on global health and fighting to eradicate diseases of poverty in developing countries, and in… Read More

Bill Gates: LinkedIn deal gives Microsoft a new chance ‘to surprise the world’

In a new interview with Bloomberg TV, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he was “very encouraging” of Microsoft’s $26 billion LinkedIn… Read More

What Bill Gates would do if he were living on $2 a day

Bill Gates, chicken farmer? The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says in a blog post that investing in poultry would his first move… Read More

Marc Benioff, Airbnb founders join Giving Pledge, committing majority of wealth to charity

Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and wife Lynne are among 17 billionaires… Read More

Bill Gates tops Forbes list with net worth of $76 billion, plus a map of the richest people in each state

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has once again been declared the richest person in the U.S., with a net worth of… Read More

Bill Gates thinks you should read these 5 books this summer

Summer came early in Seattle this year and Northwest native Bill Gates just released his recommended beach reads to help… Read More

Bill Gates: This is what the U.S. presidential candidates should really be focusing on

With an eye toward presidential politics and what’s been lacking in the run-up to the November election, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates… Read More

NYT burnishes Seattle’s reputation for world-changing nonprofits, fueled by tech money

It goes without saying that Paul Allen and Bill Gates had an enormous impact on Seattle. But their influence on… Read More

Reddit AMA: Bill Gates on FBI vs. Apple, climate change, and artificial intelligence

Bill Gates just wrapped up his fourth Reddit AMA, covering everything from the threat of terrorism to his fastest time… Read More

Forbes says Bill Gates still world’s richest person, while Jeff Bezos jumps 10 spots to No. 5 on list of billionaires

Though the value of his personal fortune fell by $4 billion during the past year, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates remains… Read More

Bill Gates doesn’t like unicorns’ near future, says he’d short them

Lots of people have predicted that the tech sector’s seemingly endless supply of investor money will soon dry up. Add Bill… Read More

Guest Commentary: I’m with Bill Gates on the Apple debate — we need to talk

Last week was a big week in the world of cyber security news, with a potentially landmark bombshell dropping. Apple… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates’ message to teens: Time and energy are superpowers — and they can help fight global poverty

For wealthy people, living in wealthy countries, privilege manifests itself in obvious ways. But it also exists in more subtle… Read More

Beyonce, black power and Bill Gates: Super Bowl performance takes unique ‘Formation’

Monday morning pop quiz: What do you picture when you hear the words Beyonce, black power and the Super Bowl… Read More

Hard-working Bill Gates memorized license plates to monitor early Microsoft employees

In the early days of Microsoft, there were few enough cars in the parking lot that co-founder Bill Gates says… Read More

How Melinda Gates got her daughters excited about science, and slept in on Saturday mornings

Melinda Gates was one of the speakers on a panel about gender parity on Friday at the World Economic Forum… Read More

Bill Gates ‘confident’ that poverty can be wiped out by 2030

Bill Gates expressed renewed optimism this week that poverty can be eradicated in all its forms by 2030, and that… Read More

62 richest people have as much wealth as half of world’s population, report finds

The 62 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, according… Read More

Bill Gates and other investors give $62M boost to Kymeta satellite antenna venture

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond-based satellite antenna venture backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, says it has closed a $62 million… Read More

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos invest in Grail, Illumina’s $100M cancer testing venture

One of the giants of gene sequencing, Illumina, has spun off a new $100 million company called Grail to create… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates don’t Whip or Nae Nae after eating Cocoa Puffs and Wheat Chex

Bill Gates says that he and his wife Melinda are interviewed dozens of times a year, but in a new blog… Read More

Bill Gates picks his favorite feel-good stories of the year

It’s easy to feel down with all the bad news out there. In fact, tragedies trended aplenty among Google, Bing and Facebook‘s… Read More

Bill Gates slows his Microsoft stock sell-off in 2015, still tops list of U.S. insider sales at $1.5B

Bill Gates sold more than $1.5 billion worth of Microsoft stock in 2015 — topping the list of U.S. corporate insiders… Read More

Bill Gates as Secret Santa just made a Redditor’s holiday beyond amazing — again

Ah, it’s the season of giving. And Bill Gates just gave one Redditor the gift of her life. Gates has made… Read More

Bill Gates tops LinkedIn’s list of influencers for 2015

LinkedIn publishes many lists about those who are tops in their fields, but who made the cut for being an… Read More

Donald Trump advocates ‘closing up the Internet,’ wants to get Bill Gates on that

If ridiculous passed ridiculous well into ludicrous land, well, that wouldn’t even come close to where Donald Trump is living… Read More

Bill Gates reveals his favorite books of 2015

We should all know by now that Bill Gates is an avid reader with taste that tends to lean toward… Read More