Bill Gates leaving Microsoft

http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm
In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks.

Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.

Also, the current foundation was formed by merging two previously existing foundations together:

http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm
Being the richest man in the world has also enabled Gates to create one of the world's largest charitable foundations. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has an endowment of more than $28 billion, with donations totaling more than $1 billion every year. The foundation was formed in 2000 after merging the "Gates Learning Foundation" and "William H. Gates Foundation". Their aim is to "bring innovations in health and learning to the global community".

This was the result of 5 minutes of googling.

A new 21st century spiritual.

looks like he started passing out the cash in various forms the early 90s.

Wasn't the company bleeding money at the time? (I could be wrong.)

http://news.com.com/i/ne/p/2005/426bonogates550x531.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41134000/jpg/_41134352_cover_ap203bo.jpg
(a study in eyewear)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/03/03/gates_narrowweb__200x211.jpg

Wiki Mary Gates

There's more. I don't know whether these people were born rich or poor, but dude goes to law school on the G.I. Bill, marries a schoolteacher, and makes the money that makes Jr.'s life possible.

"I don't feel very strongly about Bill Gates one way or the other, I just like making backhanded statements about him because anyone with that much money MUST be a bad person." <--- This is precisely how you're coming across right now.

The exceptions that come to mind are Gordon Moore, Wozniak, and Paul Allen

JEFF BEZOS HAD MONEY IN THE 80'S????????

http://obvi.us/images/bill1.jpg
Hey ladeez in the place, I'm callin' out to ya
There never was a city kid true-ah and blue-ah

http://obvi.us/images/bill2.jpg

http://obvi.us/images/bill3.jpg http://www.kutha.com/weirdscience/pictures/images/tossoff.jpg

http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/GATES/1993g03.jpg

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains. we'd all quite happily give away 99% of our money if we were still left with a billion dollars afterwards. there is such a thing as too much money.

Must... avoid... BLUE SCREEN JOKES

I like that approach. That means Gates will have to give away about 99.9% of his money before I'll be obligated to donate anything!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/Old_Microsoft_Logo.gif
(1978)

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vernal/understand/img/microsoft.jpg

http://ultralight.caltech.edu/web-site/common/logos/logo-microsoft.jpg

http://66.49.231.190/uploaded_images/microsoft_logo-700271.jpg

there we go. 1978.

His ENTIRE estate??? wifey must be just thrilled at the prospect of being a pauper any day now.

i don't think you should look at the percentages but at the absolute total that remains. we'd all quite happily give away 99% of our money if we were still left with a billion dollars afterwards.

uhh NO.

I think bill looks hot in those desk photos. All eric formanish, no? I also want to see what that flowery shirt hes wearing in the mugshot looks like.

common consensus is that a billion dollars will get you about 100 million a year (EACH YEAR) in interest if invested correctly (10%). is that not enough? i could happily live off the interest of the interest of the interest.

wifey was a microsoft project lead, and thus has some dosh of her own.

i believe that bill has stated that each of his kids will get $1M of his cash, no more. Not a bad trust fund to start with.

on the other hand, it's just funny to see him hanging out with fuckin' purple-shaded bono.