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Rudder also served as vice president of Technical Strategy working directly with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on the company's technical planning.

Keynote speakers at past breakfast and dinner events have included author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, urban revitalization strategy consultant Majora Carter, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, Nike's VP of the Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

Our events in Seattle and Portland have featured keynote speakers such as author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously series, Nike's VP of Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

Andersen: Here at The Atlantic we recently published an interview with Bill Gates on the subject of climate change and what can be done about it.

Bill Gates on Books and Blogging (Katherine Rosman for The New York Times): «Bill Gates, the co-founder ofMicrosoft, has emerged as a force in the publishing industry, thanks to the book reviews he posts on his blog, Gates Notes.

First, a really good and short write - up by Bill Gates on Jeff Bezos at Time.

The release of the documentary Waiting for Superman, NBC's Education Nation specials and teacher town hall, and D.C. Schools Superintendent Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates on The Oprah Winfrey Show — all will create a crescendo of voices, images and the master narrative that has been carefully developed over the past decade

George Stephanopoulos goes one - on - one with billionaire Bill Gates on Common Core education standards.

George Stephanopoulos interviews Bill Gates on his support for the Common Core.

Mirsky: That's Bill Gates on February 22nd.

And although we don't know how this is all going to end up we do know one thing and I'd like to steal a quote from Bill Gates whenever he said block chain technology is a tour de force and we couldn't agree more with Bill Gates on that.

This drop in stock sent Bezos back down below Bill Gates on the billionaire list, and removed his short - lived crown.

They point out the alleged «irony» of the fact that Microsoft had a picture of a smiling Bill Gates on its website when the company was facing an antitrust suit.

Not exact matches

Other tech leaders and scientists are on the same page as the SpaceX founder, including Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.

Bill Gates, on the other hand, realized that key to power and profit was the operating system and a thriving ecosystem.

Bill and Melinda Gates sat down with Charlie Rose on Wednesday, where the couple talked the compassion needed to impact global poverty.

And of course, Bill Gates weighed in on the weightiest question of all: whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

The most compelling one - click case for optimism is the 2017 Gates Letter, issued last week by Bill and Melinda Gates on behalf of the the Gates Foundation.

The full interview with Bill and Melinda Gates airs on PBS on Wednesday and on Bloomberg TV on Thursday.

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO and legendary investor made the single biggest charitable donation this year, giving $ 2.1 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of 16.6 million shares of his company, according to Wealth - X's ranking of the 10 largest philanthropic donations of 2014 published on Wednesday.

The success of legendary dropouts cited (satirically) on Silicon Valley — and of other self - made titans, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Richard Branson — suggests that formal education may, in fact, be a waste of time for those naturally predisposed to empire building.

Bill Gates and some of the world's other richest entrepreneurs will join with governments from both rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and wife Melinda Gates launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 with a focus on extreme poverty and improving health in the U.S. and developing countries.

It was around this time that Bill Gates was creating his own version of a desktop spreadsheet program, and slowly Excel and Microsoft's Office encroached on Lotus 1 -2-3's turf.

Imagine if Bill Gates had focused on his failure after his first idea flopped.

«Some of the heroes of today's would - be entrepreneurs, such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Michael Dell did not have business plans in hand when they embarked on ventures that changed the world,» the study noted.

Wise words from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie and other legendary leaders on success, attention, motivation, concentration, opportunity, failure and life.

In March, reports emerged that Microsoft was mulling over an $ 8 billion bid to snatch up the red - hot, $ 3.8 billion work chat app Slack — but Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates put the kibosh on that before an offer could be made.

Smart businesspeople like Buffett and Bill Gates know better than to focus too hard on the immediate past or the immediate future.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and famed investor Warren Buffett are celebrating 25 years of friendship today — an anniversary Gates marked by posting his favorite memories of Buffett on his blog.

The billionaire on Monday donated about $ 3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports.

With an estimated net worth of $ 77 billion, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates can certainly afford all the music he pleases, but what few songs would he want if he was stuck on a desert island?

The amount, on paper, at least, puts Spiegel in a rarified club of tech billionaires alongside Bill Gates, Google co-founder Larry Page, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak with journalist Charlie Rose at an event organized by Columbia Business School on Jan. 27, 2017, in New York.

With a $ 112 billion net worth, he not only leapfrogged over Bill Gates with his $ 90 billion, but also managed the biggest single - year increase of any individual on the list in the last 100 years — and became the first ever centi - billionaire.

Bill Gates attends Boao Forum For Asia Annual Conference 2015 on March 28, 2015 in Qionghai, Hainan province of China.

They were on hand to visit a classroom and to promote the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's philanthropic initiatives — not to mention the millions in grants it's made possible — to expand education reforms in the Bluegrass State.

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, left, plays ping pong with Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and a Berkshire Hathaway director, during a shareholder event on the sidelines of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Sunday, May 3, 2015.

But the performance on Friday of Jeff Bezos — to say nothing of that of Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates — makes her haul look like chump change.

But Kwak also goes on to negatively compare Zuckerberg and Chan's move to other massive philanthropic bequests of the past such as those made by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who «donated directly to charitable organizations or to charitable foundations.»

Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen built a microprocessor that could analyze vehicular data taken from the traffic counters placed on the pavement.

Here's how the software company, founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, paved the way for personal computing and dominated the market.

Microsoft was the Bill Gates — and Paul Allen — founded corporate colossus with such a stranglehold on the web browser that it drew a federal antitrust lawsuit.

On Monday, Warren Buffett made a $ 2.8 billion donation of Berkshire Hathaway A stock to several charities including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates again took the top spot on the list this year, with an estimated net worth of $ 89 billion.

Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were rumoured to stress - cry on the job.

Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world's wealthiest people, passed up on the opportunity to add the latter title to his resume after being offered Liverpool in 2010.

Bill Gates regularly engages on foreign policy issues.

Until relatively recently in human history, malaria was found on every continent except Antarctica, according to Dr. David Brandling - Bennett, an epidemiologist and the former director of the malaria strategy program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

If you want to take a page out of Bill Gates» playbook, wake up early, exercise, read more (definitely cut back on your reality TV intake) and write a daily to - do list.