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t. e. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates. In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it. [ 1]
Paul Allen. v. t. e. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic is a 2022 book by Bill Gates. In it, Gates details the COVID-19 pandemic and how to prevent another pandemic, including proposing a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion. [1] [2]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Gates personally intervened to help convince Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to pass the bill. To those who criticized the bill for not doing enough to address climate change because it still allowed ...
Gates was excused from regular math classes to learn to program, and became enthralled with it. His first computer program: a tic-tac-toe program. 2. Seek forgiveness, not permission. Too many ...
Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being ...
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, is one of the world’s most prominent business magnates, philanthropists, and technology visionaries.His immense wealth and impact on the tech ...
An Open Letter to Hobbyists. " An Open Letter to Hobbyists " is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.