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Cascade Investment, L.L.C. Cascade Investment, L.L.C. is an American holding company and private investment firm headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, United States. [2] It is controlled by Bill Gates, and managed by Michael Larson. [3] More than half of Gates's fortune is held in assets outside his holding of Microsoft shares. [4]
In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's largest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates.In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it.
There are many problems billionaire tech tycoon Bill Gates is hoping to help solve: eradicating polio, water sanitization, and agricultural development to name a few.But one frontier he worries is ...
For the Gates Foundation, that number is $77 billion. That size and influence has invited criticism, as has Gates' leadership style at the Foundation—which some have likened to a king holding court.
That’s according to a new report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that calls for a boost to programs to help address childhood malnutrition. Much of the world has emerged from the ...
The Road Ahead. October 1996 ("Completely revised and up-to-date.") The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft; Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft executive; and former Microsoft vice president Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead ...
According to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust revealed it had bought 1.7 million AB InBev shares in the second quarter ...