Sentences with phrase «including bill gates»

Crafted and constructed by international architect Thierry W. Despont — who has been commissioned by other notable clients including Bill Gates, Gianni Agnelli and Stavros Niarchos — 26 Park Lane Circle is a Georgian residence that has everything from an indoor pool and spa to a chapel consecrated by two cardinals.

I am so grateful we could be joined by some of Thrive's founding directors including Bill Gates Sr., Tony -LSB-.....]

The world's brightest minds including Bill Gates of Microsoft, Peter Thiel of PayPal, and Eric Schmidt of Google among others, have spoken positively about cryptocurrency.

Reddit is well known for its interesting AMA (Ask Me Anything) interviews — it reached a high in 2012 when Obama participated in an AMA on the site and subsequently has seen colorful characters including Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg Lion (twice).

He often guides prominent Americans (including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and former President George H. W. Bush) seeking in - depth knowledge of China.

This «accountability» movement, backed by politicians such as Barack Obama and philanthropists including Bill Gates, has been closely associated with the rise of charter schools in the US and academies in Britain.

It came from billionaires and politicians including Bill Gates, Reed Hastings, Eli Broad, Carrie Walton - Penner, Jerry Brown and several other elites.

For example, organizers of TED believe the ideal length of a presentation is 18 minutes, «and so all presenters — including Bill Gates and Bono — are required to come in under this mark» [6].

Many people rapidly found their way to the lessons posted on YouTube, including Bill Gates, who, his blurb for the book tells us, «used these incredible tools with my own kids.»

For this reason, some of the world's wealthiest investors — including Bill Gates, George Soros, and Warren Buffett — hold these stocks in their portfolios.

In August, Memphis Meats raised a large $ 17M Series A led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who invested alongside other notable investors including Bill Gates and Richard Branson.

Certainly we can all think of a few famous entrepreneurs who never exited and iterated, including Bill Gates of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook.

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

In August, it raised $ 120 million from investors including Bill Gates to fund research like the kind being done with LCA, which Bosley told Forbes would be enough to keep the company running for at least three years.

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

Waqar Ahmed pointed out that many of the world's most successful people, including Bill Gates, are avid readers.

They include Bill Gates, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

Going in with Jurvetson was a lineup of household - name investors that includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack Welch; their money will be used to build up Memphis Meats» already formidable trove of intellectual property and to fine - tune the process of combining cells to produce the tastiest steaks and patties, and drive down the cost.

Notable entrepreneurs who have remained in control of their companies from start - up to blue chip include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Vinod Khosla and Michael Dell.

The list of billionaires includes Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation who has already given away billions of dollars to charity as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who pledged to give away 99 per cent of his wealth during his life time in 2015.

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.

Nor is Tyson the first to spot a trend that has the potential to revolutionise the way we eat: other canny investors in Memphis Meats include Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson and Cargill, which provides about a quarter of America's meat.

Supporters of R - 55 include Bill Gates; Rep. Dave Quall, a Democrat who heads the House Education Committee; Professor Pat Wasley of the University of Washington School of Education; Sam Smith, past president of Washington State University; the Federal Way School Board; The Seniors Coalition; business groups; community groups; and parents and teachers throughout Washington state.

Supporters of R - 55 include Bill Gates, the Washington Roundtable, the Association of Washington Business, the bipartisan chairs of the Senate and House education committees, and a diverse group of educators, parents, and teachers throughout Washington state.

TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

This council includes Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and a small group of industry leaders.

The other 2004 recipients of this international award presented by the Center for Schools of Excellence, included the Bill Gates Educational Foundation

The other 2004 recipients of this international award presented by the Center for Schools of Excellence, included the Bill Gates Educational Foundation and MetLife.

Freeman's Bellevue Square, a 1.3 million - square - foot mall in Bellevue, Wash., serves as the centerpiece for a kind of Valhalla of retail demographics (the trade area includes Bill Gates» $ 53 million Pacific Northwest - style lodge).

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

Some of the most successful people in the world dedicate a surprisingly large chunk of time to uninterrupted thinking, including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Quick is known for her hard - hitting interviews and profiles of some of the world's richest and most influential investors, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, T. Boone Pickens, Jamie Dimon, Charlie Munger and many others.

Investors include Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Four Rivers Group, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates, Benchmark, and Founders Fund.

Going beyond the mandate of the Giving Pledge (which requires «a majority» of wealth to be earmarked for charity), Buffett is giving all his wealth to charity, including through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and foundations organized by Buffett's children.

That round included the likes of agro behemoth Cargill Inc., Bill Gates, and Richard Branson.

FWD.us has many other industry heavyweights behind it, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Dropbox founder Drew Houston.

The elite list includes three men — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, stock market sage Warren Buffet and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison — who are wealthier than Zuckerberg, according to Forbes magazine's latest rankings.

As it happens, his roster of mentors includes luminaries like Bill Gates and Marc Andreessen.

HPE supercomputing and A.I. head Bill Mannel said the latest version of the company's supercomputers include more Nvidia GPUs than they ever have and HPE is exploring different types of specialized chips like so - called field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips to help improve the overall performance for certain tasks.

These include billion - dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction.

The nonprofit social venture, which has its headquarters in Pasadena, California, is funded through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and companies including Microsoft and Asal Technologies.

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.

In the CNBC interview, Buffett repeated that Berkshires board, whose members include Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, can install a new chief executive within a day when he steps down, dies or becomes incapacitated.

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

Well - known business leaders who are regarded as possessing entrepreneurship characteristics include Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

The collective of donors includes Microsoft, Google, Salesforce.com, Microsoft - founder Bill Gates, and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.

Investors include Viking Global, Y Combinator's Continuity Fund, Bill Gates» Cascade Investment, and General Atlantic.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin looks back on some of the best ice bucket challenge videos from last week, including from Bill Gates, saying the campaign has now hit China.

Since then, Rotary and its partners, including the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have immunized more than 2.5 billion children, reducing the incidence of polio by 99 percent and eradicating it from all but three countries.