We have to go
see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening.
«We have to
see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening.
And
I saw Bill Gates in the middle seat two rows up.
Not exact matches
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.
I once had a boss who stalked the halls every evening to
see who was still working, but in the early days of Microsoft,
Bill Gates had a sneakier way of determining who stayed late and who had already checked out.
Though
See's doesn't officially give public tours of its plants, well - known fans like Cher — who worked at
See's before she achieved fame — have come by, and Buffett once brought
Bill Gates for a tour.
When we think of entrepreneurs deciding to go to space, like Branson, Musk, and Bezos, or take on malaria like
Bill Gates, are we not
seeing people expressing themselves with freedom like Monet in his later years, when he had the freedom to paint anything he wanted?
Despite a disappointing Windows 8 rollout, Microsoft could be
seeing a halo effect from the
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett famously read books constantly, and I
see them more as ideals than outliers.
All of these qualities can be
seen in famous CEOs and entrepreneurs such as
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Michael Dell.
Some say
Bill Gates pushed him out, but many say it was a life - changing experience for Allen and he
saw there were other opportunities that he could invest his time in.
Microsoft founder and Buffett pal
Bill Gates is regularly
seen trying his hand in that one.
Bill Gate Think Weeks Steve Jobs — zen meditation, stop responding to all that is coming in Success
seen as money and power — 2 - legged stool.
Bill Gates is still the world's richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which
sees Bezos behind the Microsoft cofounder.
Already we
see hints of that: in the efforts of the
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation to eliminate malaria; in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to improve schools; in Sean Parker, the founder Napster, pledging $ 600 million for research into cancer and malaria, among other causes.
«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.
While Apple maintains that helping the FBI access the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone would set a dangerous precedent,
Bill Gates told the Financial Times that he doesn't quite
see it that way:
@Gadflie «
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation» @Chad «
Bill is not atheist:
see http://www.billgateswindows.com/ms/141/is-
bill-
gates-an-atheist/
Did you know that
Bill Gates makes so much money every minute that if he is walking down the sidewalk, and sees a hundred dollar bill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick it
Bill Gates makes so much money every minute that if he is walking down the sidewalk, and
sees a hundred dollar
bill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick it
bill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick it up?
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — Senior officers of the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation (BMGF) are at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) this week to
see for themselves the work being done at the world's premier research center on rice.
So ffing what it's meaningless in terms of
seeing where the two teams are, today just like your silly 3.6 average is meaningless in assessing where the club is today and where it's heading... If you have 10 people in a pub and their average income is 10,000 quid and then
bill gates walks in the average income of the pub goers goes up to100 million FACT... And??
The
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation
sees so much promise in gene drive technology that it plans to double spending on its Target Malaria initiative, which aims to create systems for driving genes in two species of malaria mosquitoes, to $ 70 million.
But Feedback was more than a little disappointed to
see that
Bill Gates had already left the hall.
«When I compare our high schools to what I
see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our workforce of tomorrow,» Microsoft founder
Bill Gates said in a 2005 speech.
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — Senior officers of the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation (BMGF) are at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) this week to
see for themselves the work being done at the world's premier research center on rice.
Recently, I've
seen posts from everyone from Dr. Mercola to Dr. Oz touting the benefits of proper bathroom posture, and even
Bill Gates held a contest to redesign the modern toilet.
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.
Once you've built your empire, you will
see your name on top of
Bill Gates.
While IBM
saw no market potential for PCs, two college dropouts named
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs viewed the same data as IBM and perceived massive opportunity.
This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation (
see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the family.
Only in recent years have we
seen serious, broad - scale efforts at cooperation, such as the charter / district compacts now sponsored in 21 cities by the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
The schools have attracted the attention of another education philanthropist:
Bill Gates visited Summit Sierra in Seattle last year and praised what he
saw on his «gatesnotes» blog.
You'll clearly
see that
Bill Gates was hoping that MET would do what I described above.
Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist
Bill Gates (
see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.
The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (
see here;
see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»
This last point, which according to the judge «shock [ed] the conscience,» came almost entirely thanks to the testimony of Thomas Kane (
see prior posts about his
Bill and Melinda
Gates funded research here and here) and the testimony of Raj Chetty, Kane's colleague at Harvard who has also been the source of many prior posts (
see here and here), but whose research at the source of his testimony has also been recently (and seriously) scrutinized given how bias in his study actually made false this key assertion.
It's always a hoot to dig a little into the folks who make up these small bands of ragtag «advocates» to
see who
Bill Gates is using to spread his message.
The group, Educators4Excellence, was founded by Evan Stone and Sydney Morris in 2010, and later received a six - figure donation from the
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, which hopes to
see the group act as a counterweight to the teachers unions.
Notwithstanding the influential nature of it in the electoral process, one only needs to
see how bags of dough from the mega-rich-one-percenters — largely led by
Bill Gates — have bought their way in their attempt to corporatize K - 12 education (
see, for example, here).
The meeting, part of the Leading for Effective Teaching Project that CEL is leading with generous support from the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, included participants from 13 districts and charter management organizations (
see box).
I believe the excellent work of Salman Khan through his Khan Academy website, which has now received funding from
Bill Gates, and his TED talk (
see below) raised the profile significantly to a whole new audience.
While
Bill Gates may have been central to funding the development of the Common Core State Standards, we simply would not
see them in classrooms across the country with standardized testing rolled out already and teachers» evaluations connected to those tests without Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his signature initiatives.
In addition, we asked our consulting experts to reflect on four specific approaches to personalized learning described by the
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation: learner profiles; personal learning paths; competency - based progressions; and flexible learning environments (
see glossary, page 33).
Billionaire philanthropist
Bill Gates saw an opportunity with a new federal education law that has widespread repercussions for American...
Adler is also a critic of the work of Thomas Kane, another person of interest (
see prior posts about Kane here and here), as Kane is also involved with the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, he is a proponent of VAMs as aligned with the
Gates Foundation's interests, and he (like Chetty) served as a key witness for the prosecution in the same Vergara v. California trial.
Bill and Melinda
Gates said the best part of their work in education was
seeing great teachers at work, but they didn't ask one teacher to be part of creating standards for K - 12 education.
Billionaire philanthropist
Bill Gates saw an opportunity with a new federal education law that has widespread repercussions for American classrooms.
The
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation has just launched a five - year, $ 500 million initiative to quantify what, exactly, makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement (
see story).
Perhaps next year when Danny is luxuriating in his hot tub with Pryor, Perry,
Bill Gates, and Eli Broad he wil
see the true product of his folly.
I Call it worst then the Windows VISTA Erra!!!!! Did you hire
bill gates to write this release or are you just a Communist demanding people use their machines how you
see fit?