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- Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview
Link to: Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic. In his view, the world is a giant operating system that just...
- Walter Isaacson On Bill Gates At Harvard
Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs and others, is writing a book about the great inventors of the digital era. He shared this section on the Harvard undergraduate years of Bill Gates ’77,...
- Bill Gates: Innovation & Opportunity—the Contribution Of Computing To Improving Our World (video)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shares his thoughts and perspective on computing’s impact on society and fields questions from the audience at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Rick Rashid, chief research officer of Microsoft, moderates the...
- Bill Gates Quote From Charlie Rose Interview (or, How The World's Best Companies Are Built By Fanatics)
My shortened transcription of a part of their conversation as I watched the interview. Any errors are mine. Charlie Rose: Did you have what you now have (this fascination and love for science)...for a while? Was this something that was in you? As a kid,...
- Wsj Interviews Bill Gates: Was The $5 Billion Worth It?
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. 'It's hard to improve public education—that's clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you're...
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Inside The Deal That Made Bill Gates $350,000,000
Found via Infectious Greed.
On the 25th anniversary of Microsoft's IPO, Fortune is featuring our 1986 cover story in which we followed around a young Bill Gates as he prepared to take his company public. Here's the story of the birth of a billionaire.
- Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview
Link to: Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic. In his view, the world is a giant operating system that just...
- Walter Isaacson On Bill Gates At Harvard
Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs and others, is writing a book about the great inventors of the digital era. He shared this section on the Harvard undergraduate years of Bill Gates ’77,...
- Bill Gates: Innovation & Opportunity—the Contribution Of Computing To Improving Our World (video)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shares his thoughts and perspective on computing’s impact on society and fields questions from the audience at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Rick Rashid, chief research officer of Microsoft, moderates the...
- Bill Gates Quote From Charlie Rose Interview (or, How The World's Best Companies Are Built By Fanatics)
My shortened transcription of a part of their conversation as I watched the interview. Any errors are mine. Charlie Rose: Did you have what you now have (this fascination and love for science)...for a while? Was this something that was in you? As a kid,...
- Wsj Interviews Bill Gates: Was The $5 Billion Worth It?
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. 'It's hard to improve public education—that's clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you're...