Bill Gate is Our Man of The Month of January 2016!
Who is this Bill gate?
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You are not the first to be Multi Millionaire in this World but to join them you need to know them and know their ways to the top otherwise you will be at the same point by the help of centripetal force of poverty. This month, we want you to be familiar with one of the them and our Multi Millionaire of the week we think worth emulation is Bill Gate.
Bill Gate is one of the most successful men in the World today and got all his fortunes from legitimate business and he is also a big time philanthropist. business Clinic welcomes you to Bill Gate as authored by Wikipedia. Here we go:
William Henry "Bill"
Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate,
philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen
co-founded Microsoft,
which became the world's largest PC
software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of
chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest
individual shareholder until May 2014.Gates
has authored and co-authored several books.
Starting
in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people
and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since
2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more
than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased by
US$15 billion. Gates is currently the richest man in the world. Gates is
one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has
been criticized for his business tactics, which
have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some
cases been upheld by numerous court rulings.[12][13]
Later in his career Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating
large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific
research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
established in 2000.
Gates
stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He
remained as Chairman and created the position of Chief Software Architect for
himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from
full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie,
chief software architect and Craig Mundie,
chief research and strategy officer. Ozzie later left the company. Gates's last
full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He stepped down as Chairman of
Microsoft in February 2014, taking on a new post as technology advisor to
support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.
Early life
Gates was born in Seattle,
Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the son
ofWilliam H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates' ancestral origin
includes English, German,
and Irish, Scots-Irish. His father was a prominent
lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's maternal grandfather
was JW Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder
sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth
of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or
"Trey" because his father had the "II" suffix. Early on in
his life, Gates's parents had a law career in mind for him. When Gates was young, his family
regularly attended a Protestant Congregational church. The
family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter
whether it was hearts
or pickleball
or swimming to the dock ... there was always a reward for winning and there was
always a penalty for losing”. At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside
School, a private preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers
Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale
to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of
computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's
students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes
to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an
implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games
against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would
always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment,
he said, "There was just something neat about the machine." After the
Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on
systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems
was a PDP-10
belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside
students – Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland,
and Kent Evans – for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in
the operating system to obtain free computer time.
At
the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in
exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went
to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on
the system, including programs in Fortran,
Lisp, and machine
language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the
company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc.
hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in Cobol, providing them
computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his
programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule
students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with
"a disproportionate number of interesting girls." He later stated
that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so
unambiguously demonstrate success." At age 17, Gates formed a venture with
Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic
counters based on the Intel 8008
processor. In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Gates
graduated from Lakeside School in 1973, and was a National Merit Scholar. He
scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard
College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer,
who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft.
The Poker Room in Currier House at Harvard
College, where Gates and Allen founded Microsoft
In
his sophomore year, Gates devised an algorithm
for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a
series of unsolved problems presented in a combinatorics
class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates's
solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years; its
successor is faster by only one percent. His solution was later formalized in a
published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.
Gates
did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot
of time using the school's computers. Gates remained in contact with Paul
Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year saw
the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080
CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their
own computer software company. Gates dropped out of Harvard at this time. He
had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him
after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.
Microsoft
BASIC
After reading the January 1975 issue
of Popular Electronics, that demonstrated the Altair 8800,
Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform
them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the
platform. In reality, Gates and Allen
did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to
gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo,
and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator
that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration,
held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in
a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC.
Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard
to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their
partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in
Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976,
the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the
Secretary of the State of New Mexico. Gates never returned to
Harvard to complete his studies.
Microsoft's
BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a
pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and
distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS
newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and
maintain high-quality software without payment. This letter was unpopular with
many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software
developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of
MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software
for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979. During
Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the
company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write
code as well. In the first five years, Gates personally reviewed every line of
code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
IBM partnership
IBM approached Microsoft
in July 1980, regarding its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC.
The computer company first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter.
When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system,
Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely
used CP/M
operating system. IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and they
did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the
licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and told him to
get an acceptable operating system. A few weeks later, Gates proposed using 86-DOS
(QDOS), an operating system similar to CP/M that Tim Paterson
of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made
for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the
exclusive licensing agent, and later the full owner, of 86-DOS. After adapting
the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC DOS
in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000. Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright
on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would
clone IBM's system. They did, and the sales of MS-DOS
made Microsoft a major player in the industry. Despite IBM's name on the
operating system the press quickly identified Microsoft as being very
influential on the new computer. PC Magazine asked if Gates were
"the man behind the machine?", and InfoWorld
quoted an expert as stating "it's Gates' computer". Gates oversaw
Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the
company in Washington state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the
Chairman of the Board.
Windows
Microsoft
launched its first retail version of Microsoft
Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a
deal with IBM
to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two
companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting
creative differences caused the partnership to deteriorate.
Management style
From Microsoft's founding in 1975
until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product
strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and
wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it.He
gained a reputation for being distant to others; as early as 1981 an industry
executive complained in public that "Gates is notorious for not being
reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls." Another executive
recalled that after he showed Gates a game and defeated him 35 of 37 times,
when they met again a month later Gates "won or tied every game. He had
studied the game until he solved it. That is a competitor." As an
executive, Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program
managers. Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally
combative, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies
or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
He
has interrupted presentations with such comments "That's the stupidest
thing I've ever heard! and, "Why don't you just give up your options and join the Peace Corps?"
The target of his outburst then had to
defend the proposal in detail until, hopefully, Gates was fully convinced. When
subordinates appeared to be procrastinating, he was known to remark
sarcastically, "I'll do it over the weekend."
Gates's role at Microsoft for most of its
history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an
active software developer in the early years, particularly on the company's programming language products. He has not
officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model
100, but wrote code as late as 1989 that shipped in the company's
products. On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his
day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy.
He divided his responsibilities between two successors, placing Ray Ozzie
in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie
in charge of long-term product strategy.
Antitrust litigation
Many decisions that led to antitrust litigation over Microsoft's
business practices have had Gates's approval. In the 1998 United States v. Microsoft case, Gates
gave deposition testimony that several journalists characterized as evasive. He
argued with examiner David Boies over the contextual meaning of
words such as, "compete", "concerned", and "we".
The judge and other observers in the court room were seen laughing at various
points during the deposition. BusinessWeek reported:
Early rounds of his deposition show
him offering obfuscatory answers and saying 'I don't recall,' so many times
that even the presiding judge had to chuckle. Worse, many of the technology
chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors
with snippets of e-mail that Gates both sent and received.
Gates
later said he had simply resisted attempts by Boies to mischaracterize his
words and actions. As to his demeanor during the deposition, he said, "Did
I fence with Boies? ... I plead guilty. Whatever that penalty is should be
levied against me: rudeness to Boies in the first degree." Despite Gates'
denials, the judge ruled that Microsoft had committed monopolization
and tying, and blocking competition, both in
violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Appearance in ads
Gates
appeared in a series of ads to promote Microsoft in 2008. The first commercial,
co-starring Jerry Seinfeld, is a 90-second talk between
strangers as Seinfeld walks up on a discount shoe store (Shoe Circus) in a mall
and notices Gates buying shoes inside. The salesman is trying to sell Mr. Gates
shoes that are a size too big. As Gates is buying the shoes, he holds up his
discount card, which uses a slightly altered version of his own mugshot
of his arrest in New Mexico in 1977, for a traffic violation. As
they are walking out of the mall, Seinfeld asks Gates if he has melded his mind
to other developers, after getting a "Yes", he then asks if they are
working on a way to make computers edible, again getting a "Yes".
Some say that this is an homage to Seinfeld's own show about
"nothing" (Seinfeld). In a second commercial in the series, Gates and
Seinfeld are at the home of an average family trying to fit in with normal
people.
Post-Microsoft
Since leaving day-to-day operations
at Microsoft, Gates continues his philanthropy and works on other projects.
According
to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gates was the world's highest-earning
billionaire in 2013, as his fortune increased by US$15.8 billion to US$78.5
billion. As of January 2014, most of Gates's assets are held in Cascade
Investment LLC, an entity through which he owns stakes in numerous businesses,
including Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and Corbis Corp. On February 4,
2014, Gates stepped down as Chair of Microsoft to become Technology Advisor
alongside Satya Nadella.
In a substantial interview with Rolling Stone
magazine, published in the March 27, 2014 issue, Gates provided his perspective
on a range of issues, such as climate change, his charitable activities,
various tech companies and people involved in them, and the state of America.
In response to a question about his greatest fear when he looks 50 years into
the future, Gates stated: "... there'll be some really bad things that'll
happen in the next 50 or 100 years, but hopefully none of them on the scale of,
say, a million people that you didn't expect to die from a pandemic, or nuclear
or bioterrorism." Gates also identified innovation as the "real
driver of progress" and pronounced that "America's way better today
than it's ever been."
Personal life
After being named one of Good
Housekeeping 's
"50 Most Eligible Bachelors" in 1985, Gates married Melinda
French on January 1, 1994. They have three children: daughters
Jennifer Katharine (born 1996) and Phoebe Adele (born 2002), and son Rory John
(born 1999). The family resides in the Gateses' home, an earth-sheltered
house in the side of a hill overlooking Lake
Washington in Medina. According to 2007 King County public records, the total
assessed value of the property (land and house) is $125 million, and the
annual property tax is $991,000. The 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2)
estate has a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system,
as well as a 2,500 sq ft (230 m2) gym and a
1,000 sq ft (93 m2) dining room. In an interview with
Rolling Stone,
Gates stated in regard to his faith:
The
moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We've raised our kids
in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to
and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and
reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I
mean, it's at least a moral belief.
In
the same interview, Gates said: "I agree with people like Richard
Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we
really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we
sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm
– not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the
world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how
it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem,
you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to
believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently
because of it, I don't know."
Among Gates's private acquisitions is the Codex
Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da
Vinci, which Gates bought for $30.8 million at an auction in
1994. Gates is also known as an avid reader, and the ceiling of his large home
library is engraved with a quotation from The Great
Gatsby. He also enjoys playing bridge, tennis, and golf. Gates
was number one on the Forbes 400 list from 1993 through to 2007, and
number one on Forbes list of The World's Richest People from 1995 to
2007 and 2009. In 1999, his wealth briefly surpassed $101 billion, causing
the media to call Gates a "centibillionaire". Despite his wealth and
extensive business travel Gates usually flew coach
until 1997, when he bought a private jet. Since 2000, the nominal value of his
Microsoft holdings has declined due to a fall in Microsoft's stock price after
the dot-com bubble burst and the
multibillion-dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. In a
May 2006 interview, Gates commented that he wished that he were not the richest
man in the world because he disliked the attention it brought. In March 2010,
Gates was the second wealthiest person behind Carlos Slim,
but regained the top position in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires
List. Carlos Slim retook the position again in June 2014 (but then lost the top
position back to Gates).
Gates
has several investments outside Microsoft, which in 2006 paid him a salary of
$616,667 and $350,000 bonus totalling $966,667. He founded Corbis,
a digital imaging company, in 1989. In 2004, he became a director of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company
headed by long-time friend Warren
Buffett.
Philanthropy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates studied the work of Andrew
Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and in 1994, sold some of
his Microsoft stock to create the "William H. Gates Foundation." In
2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations to create the
charitable "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,"
which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's
wealthiest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than
$34.6 billion. The Foundation allows benefactors to access information that
shows how its money is being spent, unlike other major charitable organizations
such as the Wellcome Trust. The foundation is organized
into four program areas: Global Development Division, Global Health Division,
United States Division, and Global Policy & Advocacy Division. Gates has
credited the generosity and extensive philanthropy of David
Rockefeller as a major influence. Gates and his father met with
Rockefeller several times, and their charity work is partly modeled on the Rockefeller family's philanthropic focus,
whereby they are interested in tackling the global problems that are ignored by
governments and other organizations. As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were
the second-most generous philanthropists in America, having given over $28
billion to charity; the couple plan to eventually donate 95 percent of their
wealth to charity.
Personal
Gates's wife suggested people should
emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, which had sold its home
and given away half of its value, as detailed in The Power of
Half. Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak
about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Gates, investor Warren
Buffett, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg signed a commitment they called the "Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge."
The pledge is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth
over the course of time to charity. Gates has recently expressed concern about
the existential threats of Superintelligence;
in a Reddit
"ask me anything", he stated that
First the machines will do a lot of
jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage
it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to
be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't
understand why some people are not concerned.
In
a March 2015 interview, with Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, Gates claimed he would "highly recommend" Nick Bostrom's
recent work, Super intelligence: Paths, Dangers,
Strategies. Gates has also provided personal donations to
educational institutions. In 1999, Gates donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) for the construction of a computer laboratory named the "William H.
Gates Building" that was designed by architect Frank O. Gehry. While
Microsoft had previously given financial support to the institution, this was
the first personal donation received from Gates.
The Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory of the Harvard John
A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is named after
the mothers of both Gates and Microsoft President Steven A. Ballmer, both of
whom were students (Ballmer was a member of the School's graduating class of
1977, while Gates left his studies for Microsoft), and donated funds for the
laboratory's construction.[105]
Gates also donated $6 million to the construction of the Gates Computer Science
Building, completed in January 1996, on the campus of Stanford University. The building contains the
Computer Science Department (CSD) and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) of
Stanford's Engineering department.
On August 15, 2014, Bill Gates posted a video
of himself dumping a bucket of ice water on his head, after Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg challenged him to do so, in order to raise awareness for the
disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
Bill
Gates and his foundation are taking an interest in solving global sanitation
problems since about 2005, for example by announcing the "Reinvent the
Toilet Challenge" which has received considerable media interest. To raise
awareness for the topic of sanitation and possible solutions, Bill Gates drank
water which was "produced from human feces" in 2014 – in fact it was
produced from a sewage sludge treatment process called the
Omni-processor.
In early 2015, he also appeared with Jimmy Fallon
on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and
challenged him to see if he could taste the difference between this reclaimed
water or bottled water.
Criticism
In 2007, the Los Angeles
Times criticized the foundation for investing its assets in
companies which have been accused of worsening poverty, polluting heavily, and
pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world. In
response to press criticism, the foundation announced a review of its
investments to assess social responsibility. It subsequently canceled the
review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return, while using
voting rights to influence company practices. The Gates Millennium Scholars
program has been criticized by Ernest W.
Lefever for its exclusion of Caucasian students. The scholarship program is
administered by the United Negro College Fund. In 2014, Bill
Gates sparked a protest in Vancouver when he decided to donate 50 million
dollars to UNAIDS through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the
purpose of mass circumcision in Zambia
and Swaziland.
Recognition
In 1987, Gates was listed as a billionaire
in Forbes magazine's 400 Richest People in America issue, just days
before his 32nd birthday. As the world's youngest self-made billionaire, he was
worth $1.25 billion, over $900 million more than he'd been worth the
year before, when he'd debuted on the list.
In
2015, the government of India awarded the Padma Bhushan,
the third highest civilian award of The Republic of India, to Gates and his
wife Melinda for their contributions in social work. Time magazine named
Gates one of the
100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the
100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Time
also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for
their humanitarian efforts. In 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of
"Heroes of our time".Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list in 1999, named
CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked
number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998, ranked
number two in the Upside Elite 100 in 1999, and was included
in The Guardian
as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.
According
to Forbes, Gates was ranked as the fourth most powerful person in the
world in 2012, up from fifth in 2011.
In
1994, he was honored as the twentieth Distinguished Fellow of
the British Computer Society. In 1999, Gates
received New York Institute of Technology's
President's Medal. Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit,
Breukelen,
The Netherlands, in 2000;[127]
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden, in 2002; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2005; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in April
2007; Harvard University in June 2007; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in 2007,
and Cambridge University in June 2009. He was also made an honorary trustee of Peking
University in 2007.
Gates
was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005.[134]
In November 2006, he was awarded the Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle,
together with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Insignia of the same order,
both for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and
education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de
lectores".Gates received the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership
from The Franklin Institute for his
achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work. Also in 2010, he was
honored with the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America, its highest award
for adults, for his service to youth.
Entomologists
named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis
gatesi, in his honor in 1997.
In
2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for
Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.
In
2006, Gates received the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from The Tech
Awards.
External business ventures and investments
v Cascade Investments LLC, a private investment
and holding company, incorporated in United States, is controlled by Bill
Gates, and is headquartered in the city of Kirkland, Washington.
v bgC3,
a new think-tank company founded by Bill Gates.
v Corbis,
a digital image licensing and rights services company.
v TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company.
v ResearchGate, a social networking site for
scientists. Gates participated in a $35 million round of financing along with
other investors.
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