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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being its largest ...
e. " An Open Letter to Hobbyists " is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software. In the letter, Gates expressed frustration ...
6. Be the guy who predicts the future. Obviously easier said than done, but Gates saw the future first at several key moments. One of them--and this is a classic story--came in 1980, when he ...
Bill Gates' house. Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify][2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million. [3]
One very memorable conversation featured in the new show is between Gates, 68, and Phoebe, the youngest of the three children he shares with ex-wife Melinda French Gates. In fact, Bill wrote that ...
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 ...
In a blog post on his website, GatesNotes, in July, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation cofounder wrote: “This will be a cyclical process: Someone finds a way to detect fakery, someone else ...
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.