Bill Gates Makes The Largest Donation Ever Toward A Humanitarian Cause

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="storytitle" style="font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 32px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 44px !important;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged </span><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2014/09/Gates-Foundation-Commits-$50%20Million-to-Support-Emergency-Response-to-Ebola" style="color: #0099ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$50 million</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> to fight the viral outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, the largest donation ever toward a humanitarian cause.</span></h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="Bill Gates ebola donation" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/sn1ma-bill-gates.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /><span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">AP / Getty Images</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> The funds would immediately benefit United Nations agencies and international organizations involved in containing and treating the virus, allowing them to purchase necessary medical supplies and increase emergency operations.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> From the foundation's total pledge, $5 million has already gone toward the World Health Organization (WHO), while another $5 million has been allocated for UNICEF efforts in some of the hardest hit regions of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> The fight against Ebola has officially found a deep-pocketed ally in the world's richest man.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <em>Source: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/bill-gates-foundation-ebola_n_5811592.html" style="color: #0099ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Huff Post</a></em></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Bill Gates Makes The Largest Donation Ever Toward A Humanitarian Cause

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I’m on a boat: Bill Gates vacations on $330M yacht

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top: -60px;"></a><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/N.G8v5w581hTyW1ZuuWLUw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-08-09/293096a0-1ffb-11e4-a930-97469737fcbc_1280px-Serene.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 630px;" title="An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)" width="630" /></div> </figure><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)</div> </div> </span></div> </span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These days, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is more concerned with helping to <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">save the world</a> than creating the next big gadget. But when <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/treasure-map--see-the-wealthiest-person-in-each-u-s--state-225603755.html" style="text-decoration: none;">the world’s richest man</a> goes on vacation, he does it like no one else.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bill-gates-vacations-better-yacht-italy-article-1.1896556" style="text-decoration: none;">New York Daily News</a> captured some photos of Gates aboard “The Serene,” a $330 million dollar yacht that Gates and his family are renting for $5 million per week.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition to its 12 staterooms, the 450-foot, seven deck vessel also comes equipped with its own saltwater pool, climbing wall, library, health spa, outdoor theater and even a nightclub spread out over the boat’s combined 48,000 square feet.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though for all his wealth and influence, Gates doesn’t actually own “The Serene.” He’s renting it from Stolichnaya vodka distributor Yuri Scheffler. The Russia-born Scheffler is an interesting figure himself,<a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101487233#." style="text-decoration: none;">famous for battling with Russian President Vladimir Putin</a>, who tried to nationalize and “redistribute” Stolichnaya’s wealth.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-yachts-2013-12" style="text-decoration: none;">Business Insider</a>, Serene is the third most expensive yacht in the world. You can check out a <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1110870/Up-close-300m-super-yacht-Bill-Gates-holidaying.html" style="text-decoration: none;">video of the yacht</a> during a recent visit to California in 2012 that was taken by a fellow, overwhelmed boater.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1407618009589"><span id="schemaorg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 310px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="15" href="" id="cover-cb676d1af54627d994d2d4c55fea5c0b" name="cover-cb676d1af54627d994d2d4c55fea5c0b" style="position: absolute; top: -60px;"></a><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon after a meeting with the French Prime Minister in Paris, on June 27, 2014 (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cRFe8PRi0gSst4_be9AzNg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7917915-1-1-0.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 310px;" title="Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon after a meeting with the French Prime Minister in Paris, on June 27, 2014 (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)" width="310" /></span></figure><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3.75px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon …</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though he does not own a yacht himself, Gates seems to be a fan of them. In 1994, he was married about a yacht belonging to his fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen famously bought his own mega yacht a few years ago for $200 million, <a data-rapid_p="16" href="http://www.superyachtfan.com/superyacht_octopus.html" style="text-decoration: none;">the Octopus</a>.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still, even if Gates doesn’t own his own yacht, his choice of vacation rentals certainly trumps that of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who were in the spotlight on Friday after it was revealed they were <a data-rapid_p="17" href="http://news.yahoo.com/hard-choices--clintons-moving-to--modest---18m-hamptons-home-for-the-summer-154337464.html" style="text-decoration: none;">renting an $18 million Hamptons estate </a>for about $30,000 per week.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the Daily News, Gates and his family regularly make use of the Serene’s on board helicopter to travel for tennis matches at the “billionaire’s playground” of nearby <a data-rapid_p="18" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/travel/17Next.html?scp=1&sq=porto%20cervo&st=cse" style="text-decoration: none;">Porto Cervo</a>, while the boat is stationed off the coast of Sardinia. And like Allen’s yacht, the Serene also comes with its own submarine.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All in all, not a bad way to spend a few weeks before getting back to <a data-rapid_p="19" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Reinvent-the-Toilet-Challenge" style="text-decoration: none;">reinventing the toilet</a>.</span></div> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"> <br /></div> </div> </div>

I’m on a boat: Bill Gates vacations on $330M yacht

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The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read - Bill Gates

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="headline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: MillerDisplay, serif; font-size: 34px; line-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"> <h1 class="headlineh1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 34px !important; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: DINWebPro-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: DINWebPro-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span class="billhover" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: DINWebPro-Bold, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Business-Adventures?WT.mc_id=07_17_2014_BizBook_TabA&WT.tsrc=TabA#" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">BILL GATES</a> -</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: DINWebPro-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase;"> JULY, 2014</span></h1> </div> <div class="artlinerel" id="content_0_sharePanel" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: MillerDisplay, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: -40px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 766.65625px;"> </div> <div class="articleContent" id="content_0_articlePanel" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: MillerDisplay, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;"> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> Not long after I first met Warren Buffett back in 1991, I asked him to recommend his favorite book about business. He didn’t miss a beat: “It’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Adventures</em>, by John Brooks,” he said. “I’ll send you my copy.” I was intrigued: I had never heard of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Adventures</em> or John Brooks.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> Today, more than two decades after Warren lent it to me—and more than four decades after it was first published—<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Adventures</em> remains the best business book I’ve ever read. John Brooks is still my favorite business writer. (And Warren, if you’re reading this, I still have your copy.)</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> A skeptic might wonder how this out-of-print collection of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Yorker</em> articles from the 1960s could have anything to say about business today. After all, in 1966, when Brooks profiled Xerox, the company’s top-of-the-line copier weighed 650 pounds, cost $27,500, required a full-time operator, and came with a fire extinguisher because of its tendency to overheat. A lot has changed since then.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> It’s certainly true that many of the particulars of business have changed. But the fundamentals have not. Brooks’s deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then. In terms of its longevity, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Adventures</em> stands alongside Benjamin Graham’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Intelligent Investor</em>, the 1949 book that Warren says is the best book on investing that he has ever read.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> </div> <div class="gnYoutubeHolder videoEmbed" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 431.234375px; padding-top: 30px; position: relative;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="432" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AH2MqBUzXeI?rel=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 461.234375px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 766.65625px;" width="768"></iframe>Brooks grew up in New Jersey during the Depression, attended Princeton University (where he roomed with future Secretary of State George Shultz), and, after serving in World War II, turned to journalism with dreams of becoming a novelist. In addition to his magazine work, he published a handful of books, only some of which are still in print. He died in 1993. As the journalist Michael Lewis wrote in his foreword to Brooks’s book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Go-Go Years</em>, even when Brooks got things wrong, “at least he got them wrong in an interesting way.” Unlike a lot of today’s business writers, Brooks didn’t boil his work down into pat how-to lessons or simplistic explanations for success. (How many times have you read that some company is taking off because they give their employees free lunch?) You won’t find any listicles in his work. Brooks wrote long articles that frame an issue, explore it in depth, introduce a few compelling characters, and show how things went for them. In one called “The Impacted Philosophers,” he uses a case of price-fixing at General Electric to explore miscommunication—sometimes intentional miscommunication—up and down the corporate ladder. It was, he writes, “a breakdown in intramural communication so drastic as to make the building of the Tower of Babel seem a triumph of organizational rapport.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> In “The Fate of the Edsel,” he refutes the popular explanations for why Ford’s flagship car was such a historic flop. It wasn’t because the car was overly poll-tested; it was because Ford’s executives only pretended to be acting on what the polls said. “Although the Edsel was supposed to be advertised, and otherwise promoted, strictly on the basis of preferences expressed in polls, some old-fashioned snake-oil selling methods, intuitive rather than scientific, crept in.” It certainly didn’t help that the first Edsels “were delivered with oil leaks, sticking hoods, trunks that wouldn’t open, and push buttons that…couldn’t be budged with a hammer.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> One of Brooks’s most instructive stories is “Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox.” (The headline alone belongs in the Journalism Hall of Fame.) The example of Xerox is one that everyone in the tech industry should study. Starting in the early ’70s, the company funded a huge amount of R&D that wasn’t directly related to copiers, including research that led to Ethernet networks and the first graphical user interface (the look you know today as Windows or OS X).</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> But because Xerox executives didn’t think these ideas fit their core business, they chose not to turn them into marketable products. Others stepped in and went to market with products based on the research that Xerox had done. Both Apple and Microsoft, for example, drew on Xerox’s work on graphical user interfaces.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> I know I’m not alone in seeing this decision as a mistake on Xerox’s part. I was certainly determined to avoid it at Microsoft. I pushed hard to make sure that we kept thinking big about the opportunities created by our research in areas like computer vision and speech recognition. Many other journalists have written about Xerox, but Brooks’s article tells an important part of the company’s early story. He shows how it was built on original, outside-the-box thinking, which makes it all the more surprising that as Xerox matured, it would miss out on unconventional ideas developed by its own researchers.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> </div> <div class="bainteractive" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> Brooks was also a masterful storyteller. He could craft a page-turner like “The Last Great Corner,” about the man who founded the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain and his attempt to foil investors intent on shorting his company’s stock. I couldn’t wait to see how things turned out for him. (Here’s a spoiler: Not well.) Other times you can almost hear Brooks chuckling as he tells some absurd story. There’s a passage in “The Fate of the Edsel” in which a PR man for Ford organizes a fashion show for the wives of newspaper reporters. The host of the fashion show turns out to be a female impersonator, which might seem edgy today but would have been scandalous for a major American corporation in 1957. Brooks notes that the reporters’ wives “were able to give their husbands an extra paragraph or two for their stories.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> Brooks’s work is a great reminder that the rules for running a strong business and creating value haven’t changed. For one thing, there’s an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have a perfect product, production plan, and marketing pitch; you’ll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> That is a lesson you learn quickly in business, and I’ve been reminded of it at every step of my career, first at Microsoft and now at the foundation. Which people are you going to back? Do their roles fit their abilities? Do they have both the IQ and EQ to succeed? Warren is famous for this approach at Berkshire Hathaway, where he buys great businesses run by wonderful managers and then gets out of the way.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Business Adventures</em> is as much about the strengths and weaknesses of leaders in challenging circumstances as it is about the particulars of one business or another. In that sense, it is still relevant not despite its age but because of it. John Brooks’s work is really about human nature, which is why it has stood the test of time.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1em;"> <b>Note: Ebere Samuel's Blog is just a month old. Please, we will value your comments- suggestions and encouragement. Thank you.</b></div> </div> </div>

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