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26 - year - old Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has joined fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and pledged to donate half his wealth to...

Venture capitalists have been pouring money into clean meat companies such as Memphis Meats, which has attracted capital from billionaires Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack and Suzy Welch, and Just (formerly known as Hampton Creek).

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It's picked up $ 1 billion in funding from the likes of future - focused billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

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.

Take a lesson from generous billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and Ken Langore.

He has competed in online bridge tournaments for years alongside fellow billionaire Bill Gates.

Recent research — most notably a 2013 project funded by software billionaire Bill Gates — concluded that student scores can be an effective evaluation tool.

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

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is taking heat from education groups, which say the Gates Foundation's philanthropic support comes with strings attached.

Wealthy philanthropists, including Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, were pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into education reform.

The biggest funder of geoengineering research has been a nonprofit fund supported by billionaire Bill Gates, which has disbursed some $ 8.5 million for research and meetings since 2007.

Billionaire Bill Gates has also pumped millions into an aerosol geoengineering project in conjunction with Harvard set to begin this year.

Not exact matches

Billionaires such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Elon Musk credit much of their success to reading and learning.

Billionaire, innovator, philanthropist, author, Bill Gates has worn a lot of hats — and inspired millions of people.

Billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates has a new favorite book: «Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.»

Zimbabwean telecom tycoon (and the country's only billionaire) Strive Masiyiwa has been called a «global business influential,» a «face of New Africa,» and the «Bill Gates of Africa.»

His Giving Pledge also boasts dozens of billionaire signees, including Bill Gates, who have committed half their net worth to charitable causes.

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.

It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it's beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

If success leaves clues, billionaires like Bill Gates and the others are giving us a pretty big hint.

Along with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Buffett is a founder of The Giving Pledge, which is a promise made by more than 100 billionaires to give their fortunes away.

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.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos surpassed Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett to snag the number three spot behind Spain's Amancio Ortega, the founder of the clothing retailer Zara, and Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and the world's richest person.

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.

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.

The three people above Bezos are Microsoft (AMZN) co-founder Bill Gates, Spanish clothing retailer Amancio Ortega, and billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

And check out my Fortune colleague Carol Loomis» story about nine new signers of The Giving Pledge, which is Buffett's and Bill and Melinda Gates» philanthropic program to encourage billionaires to donate their money during their lifetimes.

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has donated another roughly $ 2.86 billion of his holdings in the company's stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities, as part of his plan to give away nearly his entire fortune.

These 14 billionaires just promised to give away more than half of their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

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

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.

Billionaires, including Bill Gates, say there is no way to produce enough meat traditionally to feed the world population of the future.

Moskovitz and his wife later started philanthropic foundation Good Ventures, and became the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, which asks billionaires to bequest most of their wealth to charity.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

LONDON (Reuters)- Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $ 50 million (# 38.2 million) in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain - wasting disease.

When I left a secure corporate job, I was immersed in writing about visionaries like Jobs, Bill Gates, and others who started companies in their garages or dorm rooms, dropped out of college, and became billionaires.

As of August 1, the 53 - year - old Amazon founder fell behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega on Forbes» list of billionaires.

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.

Other tech billionaires who have donated to public health include Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Yesterday Forbes declared Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim the world's richest man, beating out Bill Gates by a nose.

Bill Gates is still the world's richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which sees Bezos behind the Microsoft cofounder.

Melinda Gates first heard about the controversial memo written by an engineer at Google from her husband, Bill — the billionaire founder of Microsoft.

Reuters reports that on Monday, the billionaire donated about $ 3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to give charities, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Which business opportunity has the potential to help me become a billionaire like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison or Warren Buffett?

Forbes identifies a record 1,826 billionaires, value a merged $ 7.05 trillion Photograph: Reuters Bill Gates has as soon as again topped Forbes magazine's yearly ranking of world - wide billionaires.

«Bezos has seen his wealth remain in excess of $ 100 billion, and with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg also tipped to reach that eye - watering milestone, it seems we're entering the era of the centi - billionaire,» Vishal Chhatralia, vice president digital operations for RS Components said in a statement.

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.

Osberg parlayed a gift for the game into a series of business opportunities and high - powered «elephant bumping» that includes Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, billionaires whose net worths clock in at $ 74 billion and $ 90 billion, respectively.