Sentences with phrase «ceo bill gates»

The company was an early adopter, and former CEO Bill Gates had expressed his support for the cryptocurrency.

For years, the honor went to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and then to his successor, Steve Ballmer.

The filing also claimed that the proliferation of such patents is «effectively tax innovation,» and includes a 1991 quote from former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates that warns that patents could have brought the early software industry to «a standstill.»

That was Robbie Bach, one of the masterminds behind the original Xbox, speaking from the Consumer Electronics Show, 2001, where pro wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson participated in some scripted on - stage banter with then - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about his company's much - scrutinized entry into the video game console business.

Only former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates can boast a bigger bank account.

Ultimately, they took the Courier idea to Microsoft founder, chairman and former CEO Bill Gates.

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates suggested during a television interview that rumors of the company's death in the tablet PC space were, at best, premature.

«Cheaper energy is on the list of three to four things you would most want to happen for the poorest people in the world,» former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates noted.

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is investing a ton of money — around $ 80 million to be exact — in building a «smart city» just outside Phoenix, Arizona.

In a Facebook post today, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan have joined former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in launching...

That includes musician John Legend, Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, actor Matt Damon, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and football player Tom Brady.

Not exact matches

Long - serving founder / CEOs like Bill Gates are the exception to the rule, Wasserman says.

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.

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000.

Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, revealed in a weekend interview with Fox News Sunday that he is a recent convert to the software of a long - time business rival.

In a conversation with Bill Gates, billionaire investor Warren Buffet said he wanted to be a mattress tester, and in the «No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis» podcast, Rent The Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman said she always wanted to be a wedding singer.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will turn into one of those legendary CEO's that we have seen like Bill Gates, like Larry Ellison, said Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber.

At a 2007 CEO gathering hosted by Bill Gates, at which I served as a moderator, Warren Buffett asked Rupert Murdoch about his intended succession plans.

But none of the new products the company had produced under its second CEO — from its Bing search engine to its Zune, Kin, and Lumia mobile devices — generated anywhere near the revenues of the smash hits created under its first, cofounder Bill Gates.

The chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway was also joined by the company's Vice Chairman Charles Munger and Buffett - friend Bill Gates.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

Bezos surpassed Bill Gates after a surge in Amazon's shares propelled the online retailer's CEO's net worth to $ 90.4 billion as of Thursday morning, according to Forbes.

These days, the former Microsoft CEO and his lawyer father give each other advice as cochairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but back in the day, the elder Gates was the one doling out counsel to his son.

Boisterous Richard Branson is the stereotypical CEO in a way that unassuming Bill Gates is not.

The tech giant will reportedly appoint Satya Nadella its new CEO and is considering replacing founder Bill Gates as chairman.

Here's what she wants to accomplish in her role Why being company founders helped Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Reed Hastings succeed as CEOs

Academy of Management Journal 49, p. 161) Among these introverted CEOs are Charles Schwab, Bill Gates, Brenda Barnes (Sara Lee), and James Copeland (Deloitte).

Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2000, but remained chairperson and served as the company's chief software architect for years.

Microsoft was subject to a decade of of DOJ oversight and the case was one of the big reasons why founder Bill Gates left the CEO role.

All of these qualities can be seen in famous CEOs and entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Dell.

While a 2005 study found 96 % of managers at U.S. companies self - identify as extroverts, there's a long list of successful CEOs — individuals like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos — who value quiet reflection over social stimulation.

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Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, briefly surged past Bill Gates as the world's richest person but climbed back down when the company's stock reversed direction several hours later.

Ballmer, 57, who succeeded Bill Gates as CEO in 2000, will stay on until a successor is found.

Acquiring Slack is no longer in Microsoft's plans, as the company's co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella do not seem to like the idea.

Bezos took the top spot on Forbes» world's billionaires list for the first time ever with a net worth of $ 112 billion at the end of 2017, leaping past Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

CEO and founder of Microsoft, Apple's largest competitor, Bill Gates.

Investors include Bill Gates, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Kleiner Perkins, former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson, Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman, Humane Society of the United States, and Tyson Foods.

They included Bill Gates and Richard Branson, as well as food industry heavyweight Cargill and former GE CEO Jack Welch.

- Bill Gates and Softbank CEO Masoyoshi Son are pushing a project to install satellites that will provide 24/7 video coverage of the entire planet.

Its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has traded off the position of world's richest man with Bill Gates.

His 2008 talk at the TED Conference, the annual hajj of tech barons and thought leaders, has snagged more than 1.5 million hits since it was posted online; it also earned Stamets invitations to brainstorming sessions with Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the guys who run Google.

The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.

Susan Desmond - Hellmann, the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will be the next CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The high - tech food start - up company Hampton Creek, now renamed JUST, and its CEO Josh Tetrick, and its financial backers with Bill Gates among them, see this as the future of food.

He served as vice president of Broadband Media Applications at Microsoft and as president and CEO of Continuum Productions (now Corbis), a company founded by Bill Gates to pioneer the creation of large digital libraries.

In a one - on - one interview last week, Bill Gates, the chairman and CEO of the Microsoft Corp., talked with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter about the «Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.»

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, addressing state governors, CEOs, and educators at the National Education Summit on High Schools in 2005, said, «America's high schools are obsolete.

Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

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.