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posted by martyb on Saturday March 14 2020, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the bored-of-the-board dept.

Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.

He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education and tackling climate change.

One of the world's richest men, Mr Gates, 65, has also left the board of Warren Buffett's massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.

Mr Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role running Microsoft in 2008.

Also at CNBC.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:09PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:09PM (#971317)

    With all that money they should be forming a crack team of experts to look at this virus thingy.

    Instead we see one and a half trillion dollars thrown into the Wall Street furnace, and hardly a peep.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:15PM (#971320)

    He's probably headed to the secret underground bunker in Russia made for the 1%

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:23PM (#971322)
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:47PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @09:47PM (#971331)

    Rome wasn't burnt in a day. Throwing money can only do so much.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:20PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:20PM (#971344)

      It's truly enlightening how much and how fast this happened and by whom. Rabid anti-gov low tax anti-bailout types get instant relief - which effectively keeps them in yachts - while structural spending (infrastructure) and basic needs are nickel and dimed to death.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 14 2020, @11:47PM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday March 14 2020, @11:47PM (#971386)

        The people are getting exactly what they voted for.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday March 14 2020, @11:26PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday March 14 2020, @11:26PM (#971376) Journal

    What is he doing about the current situation?

    - citizen
    - wat
    - i step down from microsoft
    - why? you can't fit any more bugs in windows perchance?
    - exactly, it's full. gonna become great in other enterprises
    - omg please contain this menace
    - yes, in fact my foundation has already dealt with coronavirus
    - wat
    - the menace, the virus
    - oh that

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 15 2020, @01:05AM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday March 15 2020, @01:05AM (#971405) Journal

    I mean, with all his know how in succesfully fighting infect... o wait.

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