Sentences with phrase «cofounder bill gates»

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.

(In January of last year, it separately raised $ 100 million in Series A funding from Illumina, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and GV.)

Alongside his cofounder Bill Gates, Paul Allen credits Microsoft for his fortune.

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.

First, Apple actually sued Microsoft over the very first version of Windows, with Jobs personally claiming that Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates had just swiped the Lisa's proprietary technology.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Beyond Meat, which also sells a chicken substitute, is funded by Bill Gates and Twitter cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.

In a 2009 interview with CNBC, Microsoft cofounder and chairman Bill Gates admired Warren Buffett's ability to keep things simple:

Founded in 2009, Beyond Meat has attracted funding from Bill Gates and Twitter cofounder Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

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.

Entrepreneur and investor Paul Allen is best known for being the cofounder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft.

By contrast, Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, currently holds the title with a total net worth of $ 89.7 billion.

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