Sentences with phrase «bill gates got»

The filthy rich like Eli Broad and Bill Gates got onboard and it is their money and power which has created momentum and given credence to the sense of urgency.

It was at Lakeside, notes Gladwell on page 51, that «Bill Gates got to do real - time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

Bill Gates got rich selling people large, complicated software programs that cost a great deal to code and support.

The second headline is my take on the Bill Gates gets rich story.

As Bill Gates gets set to decamp from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)-- he'll get the plaque and the cheap watch on June 27 — WSJ does some good wo...

Barack Obama has six hours kip and runs the most powerful country in the world and Bill Gates gets just seven hours per night.

Not exact matches

«You don't have to be Bill Gates or Michael Jordan to get a signing bonus anymore,» observes Barry Lawrence, a spokesperson for the Society for Human Resource Management, in Alexandria, Va. «You could be a butcher or hairstylist.»

Bill Gates and Paul Allen, after getting started as a services business that wrote operating system software for the then - nascent PC industry, transitioned to selling application software like MS Word and Excel in shrink - wrapped boxes.

He automatically deletes emails that he doesn't get to after one day (this caused him to once miss an email from Bill Gates)

«I got closed out because of Richard Branson and Bill Gates,» bemoaned Jody Rasch, the managing trustee of an angel fund that wasn't able to buy in.

«Things are definitely getting much more competitive,» says Bill Gates of Microsoft.

Microsoft's Bill Gates says the best advice he's ever gotten from his friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett is to keep things simple.

The theme of the latest Time magazine, edited by Bill Gates, focuses on the fact the world is getting better.

In his healthcare role, he received Marketer of the Year recognition and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer stated it was the model for how MSFT should target vertical markets due to the dominance it achieved in getting the leading 3rd party ISVs to bet their platform on MSFT.

At Whole Foods you can get the brand new «Just Mayo» (company sponsored by Bill Gates).

02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested in the food tech startup which lab - grows meat directly from animal cells.

The Brooklyn, New York native is getting the red carpet treatment based on this «Lock The Gates» edit received by Aaron Bills:

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and evidence based research is behind me, and my voice is getting stronger.

Evolutionary psychologists say that no matter how often masters of our universe like Bill Gates beat their chests, the real secret to gaining power over others is — get this — being nice

• We got the name of one of the two founders of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wrong (25 October, p 40).

But when they formalized their partnership, Gates insisted on a 60 - 40 split in his favor, according to the recent book, The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin, on the grounds that Allen had been getting a salary for six months, and he hadn't.

«There's the old joke that if you have 10 regular people in a room and Bill Gates walks in, everybody gets a billion dollars richer on average — that's a lognormal distribution,» Fox - Kemper said.

The TerraPower «wave reactor» concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department.

«Bill Gates is getting richer off Einstein — I find this totally absurd,» he says.

You can boot up but don't light up at next month's Olympics: China's pledge to host «smoke - free» games in Beijing has gotten a boost from former Microsoft executive and co-founder Bill Gates.

Well, my work at the [Bill & Melinda Gates] Foundation that will become my full - time focus is based on optimism that, whether it's software or biology, the advances can be shaped in a way to help the poorest two billion people on the planet — whether that's a breakthrough for malaria, a breakthrough for a high - quality health care system, a breakthrough for the educational opportunities that those poor people are not able to get today.

«We've got a guy by the name of Bill Gates who has taken this very seriously,» Henderson says.

In contrast, today, the world average is 67 years and it is much higher is developed nations Japan is 85 years and United States is 80 years, I don't think Albert Einstein ate lots of fat and refrained from eating grains and neither did Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Nicola Tesla or Boeing or,... you get the picture.

For example if you are as wealthy as Bill Gates or as handsome as Bradd Pitt you may get a bride even 20 or 25 years younger than you are.

This game got way over criticized to the point I think a lot of gamers are becoming as disillusioned as IGN, because its actually a fun game with a pinch of Resident Evil nostalgia set in a what if universe and the game is like a cross between gears of war and left 4 dead, so maybe its a tad bit buggy, but its still a fun game and if you paid 10 or so bucks then you got moneys worth for sure, so don't pay attention to all the haters, because they probably drink the Bill Gates kool aid.

The film opens in limited release tomorrow and got a big boost from Oprah Winfrey earlier this week when she brought Guggenheim, D.C. school district chancellor Michelle Rhee (who features prominently in the film) and recent tag - along Bill Gates onto the show to spread the message to an obviously gigantic audience in her farewell season.

But if you're the type who tends to get sentimental at the airport arrivals gate, watching this group of high - wattage, British thespians, including Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman (RIP), Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, and The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln, navigate love under the mistletoe, the movie is a perfect seasonal reminder that love actually is all around.

I'm also sure that Bill Gates would have preferred being able to get a government - backed committee to enshrine Microsoft - DOS or Windows forever.

«Bill [Gates] got really excited,» [Professor Tom] Kane said.

At that 2007 meeting in New York City's posh Pierre Hotel, he got still another surprise: Almost every inch of Bill Gates»...

To read more about students» work on the agricultural challenge with the Visitors» Center and to get the perspective from our outside expertise partner, view the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's blog, Impatient Optimists.

Bill and Melinda Gates, for instance, devote much of their gigantic philanthropy to getting black and brown kids ready for college, yet they earn her scorn for «corporate foundations, which indeed have those funds because they can avoid paying taxes that the rest of us must foot.»

In July 2011, Bill Gates told the Wall Street Journal, «I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts....

As the ALEKS algorithm gets better and Bill Gates throws more gold bricks at Sal Khan and more people flip their classrooms, though, it's clear to me that the second act isn't our job anymore.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — which largely paid for the creation of the Common Core standards and the campaign to get them adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia — is among the organizations that funded the survey.

Get Schooled was founded through a partnership with Viacom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Here are recent suggestions: 1) train teachers better (Melody Barnes, President Obama's head of domestic policy); 2) attract smarter people to teaching (a new McKinsey study shows that most teachers come from the bottom third of their college class); 3) pay good teachers more (Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates); and 4) get rid of bad teachers, who are protected from accountability by the teachers unions («Waiting for «Superman,»» and many others).

Well, Fed Ed Head Arne Duncan in his infinite wisdom as a former pro basketball player in Australia just got darned tired of waiting for Congress to remake NCLB in the image of Bill Gates and Michelle Rhee, so he first sent forth Race to the Top, the federal bribery plan that allowed Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children to rewrite state education laws across the land.

These are just seven of the many great small high schools that I have had the privilege of getting to know through my work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates, the soft - spoken philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO, was on the attack today, complaining about schools that don't teach kids and teachers who get raises anyhow.

LISC's CEO Michael Rubinger gives bond markets a fat «F» for this behavior — but his outfit recently got together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to generate some change.

Before joining Get Schooled, Ms. Groark served as a Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading its efforts to improve educational outcomes through advocacy and communication work.

The work got early support from local individuals and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, parties interested in hearing teacher voice on policy issues.

How big a hot tub is Danny getting from his Hedge Fund Johns, Bill Gates, Eli Broad, Michelle Rhee (anyone remember her?).

Make sure you let potential buyers know that you got a review on Kirkus or Sci Fi Magazine or that Bill Gates loved your book.