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☆ This habit helped Bill Gates change careers after retiring from Microsoft—despite being 'very monomaniacal’ at the time
  + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Career changes can be hard, even for Bill Gates — who credits a simple, lifelong habit for his switch from a narrow-minded, decades-long focus on computers and software to international philanthropy. "I had a long period from about age 18 to 40 where I was very monomaniacal ... Microsoft was everything," Gates, 68, recently told comedian Trevor Noah on the "What Now? "I was lucky enough that as other people took over Microsoft, I got to go and read and learn about all the health challenges, why children die." With even more time to read, he researched ongoing global health crises and decided to make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation his primary focus, he said. "Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and in the work that I do now with my foundation," Gates told Time in 2017.
Persons: Bill Gates —, Gates, Trevor Noah, Melinda French Gates, Melinda Gates, —, he's, It's, it's, Mark Cuban, Bill Maher's, Warren Buffett Organizations: Microsoft, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: United States
☆ Billionaire grandpa Bill Gates shared an adorably geeky math-themed playlist
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Bill Gates, one of the world's most famous geeks, just shared his math-themed playlist. The playlist, which has songs from The Beatles and The White Stripes, is available on Spotify. In fact, he loves it so much, that he, or perhaps one of his assistants, made a math-themed Spotify playlist. There are also some surprising head-bangers on there, like "Black Math" from The White Stripes and "Zero Sum" from Nine Inch Nails. AdvertisementAdvertisement"A playlist with songs about numbers and math adds up to a lot of great music," Gates quipped in its subhead.
Persons: Bill Gates, —, Bill Gates —, Johnny Cash, Bob, Marley, Gates, Phoebe, Warren Buffett's, it's Organizations: Spotify, Service
☆ Frustrated by Biden, China Courts ‘Old Friends’ Like Kissinger
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( David Pierson | Vivian Wang | Edward Wong | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
And it involved a meeting with the Chinese defense minister, who has rebuffed multiple requests to engage with his American counterpart. Beijing has turned to those it deems more aligned with its position as it has become more skeptical toward, and at times openly frustrated with, the Biden administration. With the visit by Mr. Kissinger, whom Mr. Xi and other officials called an “old friend,” Beijing has sought to emphasize cooperation and mutual respect between the powers. With visits by business leaders like Bill Gates — also dubbed an old friend by Mr. Xi — and Elon Musk, China has tried to highlight the longstanding economic relationship and the perils of untangling global supply chains. Such efforts may become increasingly significant as Beijing pushes back against what it sees as the Biden administration’s efforts to contain China geopolitically, militarily and technologically.
Persons: Henry A . Kissinger, Xi Jinping, Kissinger, Biden, Xi, ”, Bill Gates —, Mr, Xi —, Elon Musk Organizations: Democrats, U.S Locations: Beijing, ” Beijing, China
☆ Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Mirrors the Myth of the Wild West
  + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
As Silicon Valley Bank went down the tubes, it wasn't surprising that the loudest mouths in Techworld started demanding that the federal government cover everyone's losses. They were pioneers on the frontier of tech and finance, and as such they acted the way pioneers always do. Myths of the frontiersIt's unfashionable for people in the tech industry to dispute the central role that government-funded infrastructure and academic projects have played in the development of Silicon Valley and the digital age. Shout down into Silicon Valley and you'll hear echoes of this same pioneer myth. They see themselves as heroes not of a Western frontier but of space — the Final one — as refracted by the legendary writers of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
☆ Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says the rise of AI poses a threat to Google's search engine profit
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Bill Gates said in a podcast Google's search engine profits could fall as Microsoft moves into AI. Gates said AI is the "biggest thing in this decade" and could reshuffle the tech space. Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered Bing in a challenge to Google's search engine dominance. His comments came two weeks after Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered version of its Bing search engine, which pits itself as a challenger to Google's dominance in the search space. Just as Microsoft launched Bing, Alphabet — Google's parent company — also unveiled an AI service called Bard.
☆ I manage a Davos hotel where Bill Gates and other leaders stay for the World Economic Forum. We barely sleep and live off Red Bull, but we love it.
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Natalie Rahhal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Hans-Rudolf Ruetti manages the Grandhotel Belvédère, where the most important WEF participants stay. For more than 50 years, what's now known as the World Economic Forum (WEF) has taken place in Davos, and every year, the Grandhotel Belvédère has hosted WEF guests. There are several events being put on by important guests, and this is always a challenging task when it comes to safety and security. We also built an additional three kitchens from where we can deliver food exclusively for hotel guests and events hosted here by the forum participants. There really isn't anything we at the hotel don't like about the WEF.
☆ Inside FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's Political Influence Machine
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Rob Price | Dakin Campbell | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +27 min
The answer is simple, according to more than a dozen Washington insiders, FTX employees, and crypto industry observers who spoke with Insider. I don't think anyone believed that he was going to fund candidates who were, quote unquote, committed to ending pandemics who were also hostile to the crypto industry." Alex Wong/Getty ImagesRebuffed by the SEC, Bankman-Fried turned his attention to Congress. "It's not that he was welcoming regulation," says the senior figure in the crypto industry who attended meetings with Bankman-Fried. But while Bankman-Fried was busy wooing Washington, FTX was about to become Exhibit A in the case for more effective oversight of the crypto industry.
☆ Billionaire Elon Musk prefers caffeine-free Diet Coke over the original—here's why
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk may have an $180 billion fortune, but one of his favorite drinks costs less than $1 a pop. Musk wasn't always partial to the caffeine-free version of the drink, which comes in a gold can rather than the classic silver. A can of Diet Coke has 46mg of caffeine, meaning Musk was consuming at least 368mg of caffeine each day from his soda intake alone. "Now, the office has caffeine-free Diet Coke." But that's not to say Musk doesn't still enjoy a traditional Diet Coke every now and then.
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