Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has described his close relationship with Steve Ballmer, who became the CEO of the company after Gates left, in his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”. Gates gave Ballmer a 4% stake in the company to convince him to join the company.Gates portrays Ballmer – whom he met at Harvard…
Bill Gates and Paula Hurd at Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebration in Jamnagar 2024 Microsoft co-founder-billionaire-philanthropist Bill Gates is much in the news lately. Roughly four years after his divorce from Melinda French, Bill Gates recently told The Times of London that he regretted his decision. However, Gates has moved on from the past as…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently shared candid thoughts about his relationship with Steve Jobs, Apple, and pivotal moments in tech history during an interview with Axios. The conversation coincides with the release of Gates’ new memoir, Source Code, which chronicles the early days of the computer industry. Bill Gates says Steve Jobs “should have been…
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates predicts a sobering scenario for global health, estimating a 10-15% chance of another pandemic emerging within the next four years, according to a recent Wall Street Journal interview.“The chance of a natural pandemic in the next four years is somewhere between 10 and 15 percent,” Gates stated emphatically. “And it’d be…
Bill Gates (Credits: Pinterest) Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates has joined the growing roster of high-profile billionaires that has dined with Donald Trump. According to a report, the President-elect recently hosted Gates for an ‘exciting’ 3-hour long dinner discussion.In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Gates said that both of them spoke about…
Bill Gates recently acknowledgment Microsoft‘s $400 billion mobile market failure. Android co-founder Rich Miner has reacted to attributing the loss of the smartphone wars to Android largely to Gates’ own decisions.“I literally helped create Android to prevent Microsoft from controlling the phone the way they did the PC – stifling innovation. So it’s always funny…
AR Rahman-Saira Banu and Bill Gates-Melinda French Celebrities are not just an inspiration to many but their fans and followers are also deeply interested to know what’s happening in their personal and professional lives. Be it a new-found love or trouble in their paradise, people want to know it all. Over the years, many popular…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates revealed his ‘guilty pleasure’: owning a private plane. A 2014 Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session has surfaced recently where Gates was asked by a user about his “most expensive guilty pleasure purchase?”. To this, he replied “Owning a plane is a guilty pleasure.” While acknowledging, Gates explained that the aircraft…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is no longer among America’s 10 richest people. Once a perennial fixture at the top of wealth rankings, Bill Gates has seen his net worth slip significantly. The billionaire philanthropist’s ranking on the 2023 list of America’s wealthiest individuals has dropped to No. 9, marking a significant decline from his previous…
Melinda French Gates has revealed that one of the “best parts” of no longer working with her ex-husband Bill Gates is the professional recognition she now receives in her own right. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the philanthropist discussed her new chapter of independence following their high-profile divorce in 2021.“When I get a…
