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William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft Corporation. He is ... the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company.
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Bill Gates was the only one to be invited to Sen. Kennedy’s hearing on “competiveness”. Bill Gates does everything possible to crush Microsoft’s competition but he thinks American workers should be forced to compete with cheap labor from abroad. He wants unlimited H-1B visas so that companies can import high-tech workers from countries like India.
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By Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews - The story of the youngest self-made billionaire in history and a well-liked book among Bill Gates' fans. Publisher Simon & Schuster says that "Gates" is "Vivid and definitive, details the behind the scenes history of the personal computer industry and its movers and shakers uncovering the inside stories of the bitter battle for control. A bracing, comprehensive portrait of the industry, the company, and the man."
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"Bill's been doing this for a long time, and he is absolutely in software of a certain era and certain style," Kapor said. "When I talk to entrepreneurs who are starting companies, they're only thinking about Google as competition, not Microsoft."
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When you're Bill Gates, you've gotta party just as hard as you work. And you've got to invest just was hard as you party. Maybe that's why Bill Gates just invested $392 million in Mexico's second largest brewer, Femsa. You know them as the company that makes Tecate, Sol, Superior and Kaiser.
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Hidden in his Microsoft billions, Gates has more than $6 billion in outside investments, primarily in biotechnology companies and new media. When the Age of the PC is past and Microsoft is someday in decline, these biotech investments will probably keep Gates in his position as richest of the rich. Then he'll have to try even harder to give it all away.
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