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In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax , which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [ 165 ]
With Microsoft turning 50 this year and a newly released book about his life called "Source Code: My Beginning," it’s no surprise that many want to take a deeper look at what makes Bill Gates tick.
Still, Gates appeared alongside Jobs in a 1983 video — a "Dating Game" riff — screened for Apple employees ahead of the Macintosh's launch. The original "Dating Game" first aired in the 1960s ...
Bill Gates said he was surprised to see how many tech billionaires support President Donald Trump. The billionaire Microsoft founder donated $50 million to the Kamala Harris campaign and said he ...
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 ]
Business @ the Speed of Thought [1] is a book written by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and explains how digital infrastructures and information networks can help someone get an edge on the competition.
Bill Gates once called the Duty Free Shoppers founder Charles Feeney the “ultimate example of Giving While Living.” The scale of his $8 billion in gifts to charities inspired Bill Gates ...
[12] [4] Lynch was described in the press as the British equivalent of the American businessman Bill Gates. [13] [14] In October 2011, Hewlett-Packard bought Autonomy for more than $11 billion (£8.6 billion). [12] Lynch made an estimated $800 million from the sale. [12] After the sale, Lynch founded a venture capital firm, Invoke Capital. [4]