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William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
In 1999, Gates received New York Institute of Technology's President's Medal. [265] Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing". [266] Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997. [267]
Gates Ventures is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Known until 2018 as bgC3 , it comprises his personal staff, a think tank on problems of health and global development, and a technology investment portfolio. [ 2 ]
A complementary initiative of Gates, Mission Innovation, was announced at the same time. [ 2 ] In December 2016, a group of investors collectively worth US$170 billion announced more personal commitment to funding the efforts of a US$1 billion fund "focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation."
Bill Gates met with President-elect Donald Trump for more than three hours about and talked about global health issues, including efforts to develop an HIV cure and to fight polio.
Building 92, home to the Microsoft Visitor Center One of the two treehouses built by Pete Nelson, near Building 31. In September 2015, The Seattle Times reported that Microsoft had hired architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to begin a multibillion-dollar redesign of the Redmond campus, using an additional 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m 2) permitted by an agreement with the City of ...
From 2009 to 2011, the number of users of the site grew from 25,000 to more than 1 million. [12] A second round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund was announced in February 2012. [22] On June 4, 2013, it closed Series C financing arrangements for $35M from investors including Bill Gates. [23] [24]
Its original name as the American Eugenics Society lasted from 1922 to 1973, but the group changed their name after open use of the term "eugenics" became disfavored; it was known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology from 1973–2008, and the Society for Biodemography and Social Biology from 2008–2019.