Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy

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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.

Announcing his latest move, Mr Gates said the company would "always be an important part of my life's work" and he would continue to be engaged with its leadership.

But he said: "I am looking forward to this next phase as an opportunity to maintain the friendships and partnerships that have meant the most to me, continue to contribute to two companies of which I am incredibly proud, and effectively prioritise my commitment to addressing some of the world's toughest challenges."

Mr Gates is listed by Forbes as the world's second richest man after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and is worth $103.6bn (£84.4bn).

He made his fortune developing software for the personal computer.

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As a young man, he dropped out of college and moved to Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, who died in 2018.

Their big break came in 1980 when Microsoft signed an agreement with IBM to build the operating system that became known as MS-DOS.

Microsoft went public in 1986 and within a year Bill Gates, at 31, had become the youngest self-made billionaire.

Mr Gates has served on Berkshire's board since 2004 but devotes much of his time to the charitable organisation he set up with his wife, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The couple were named the most generous philanthropists in the US in 2018 by the The Chronicle of Philanthropy, after giving $4.8bn to their foundation the previous year.
 
This fucking asshole and his bitch wife have single-handedly done more damage to Africa's fresh water systems than almost anything or anyone else in history. They've been handing out chemical-soaked mosquito nets because "No African child should ever die of Malaria again!!1!" since the 80s, only instead of hanging them in their bedrooms the locals sew them together and use them as fish nets, because the mesh is so fine it can be drug along the bottom and pick up everything (including bugs) and the chemicals leech out and kill fish. There are entire lakes, rivers, and streams that are completely devoid of aquatic life and not safe to drink because of Bill Gates and his stupid fucking "save the niggas" initiative. Of course after the fish are gone the locals starve anyways, but then Bill just sends them food, so nothing is learned and there are no consequences.

He's also got his finger in a million mosquito genetic manipulation projects, so I'm sure his path of destruction isn't even close to its peak.
The only thing that Africa has always been plentiful in has been Stupidity. I really can't blame him for that.
 
Yeah for the first couple of years but ecologists have been begging him to stop sending these nets since the early 00's. He's well aware of what happens but he doesn't care because he gets to be a white savior and gets asspats from ignorant people.
More like they didn't grease the palms of other "charities" or buy off the appropriate local officials. So they created a smear campaign to dissuade the locals and sold a scare story to the international press. This is how shit works in Africa and why it continues to be fucked up.

Anyways, the tiny bit of pyrethrins (synthetic chrysanthemum) in the nets is a pimple on the ass of the pollution in African waterways. Let alone that the nets are being used for fishing is anecdotal at best.
 
This fucking asshole and his bitch wife have single-handedly done more damage to Africa's fresh water systems than almost anything or anyone else in history. They've been handing out chemical-soaked mosquito nets because "No African child should ever die of Malaria again!!1!" since the 80s, only instead of hanging them in their bedrooms the locals sew them together and use them as fish nets, because the mesh is so fine it can be drug along the bottom and pick up everything (including bugs) and the chemicals leech out and kill fish. There are entire lakes, rivers, and streams that are completely devoid of aquatic life and not safe to drink because of Bill Gates and his stupid fucking "save the niggas" initiative. Of course after the fish are gone the locals starve anyways, but then Bill just sends them food, so nothing is learned and there are no consequences.

He's also got his finger in a million mosquito genetic manipulation projects, so I'm sure his path of destruction isn't even close to its peak.
Lots of people in the onlines like to tinfoil hat about his vaccination efforts too.
I had to use Windows all through the 90s so for me, that's reason enough to hate his guts and suspect he's up to something.
 
I don't doubt Gates is one of those "Fewer white people would be spiffy" types, but I don't think he's fronting genocide through "vaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx poisons". Anti-vaccination loons are just that: loons. They just happened to edit a Gates speech to provide grist for their paranoia mill.
 
Lots of people in the onlines like to tinfoil hat about his vaccination efforts too.
I had to use Windows all through the 90s so for me, that's reason enough to hate his guts and suspect he's up to something.
He wants to be remembered like Andrew Carnegie, as a great philanthropist and not as a steel/software magnate.
 
The people who made personal (and professional/enterprise-level) computing in this country are largely forgotten. Sure, I know who Douglas Engelbart, Seymour Cray, Jack Tramiel, Jay Miner, are...and of course Steve Jobs. But not too many people outside of computing know the first batch, and give it ten or fifteen years and not too many people will know about Jobs. Woz is pretty much flying under the radar, if he dropped dead tomorrow I doubt anyone would really notice other than "us". When his obit comes, most people will go "Huh, I thought it was Steve Jobs that invented the ipad." or something like that. Steve Ballmer, on and on. They'll be forgotten; nobody cares. Maybe someday "The History of Computing" will be a college course and people who take it for an easy A will.

Gates knows that and wants that historical immortality. I've heard said that years in the future there will be statues of the guy across the 3rd world's capitol cities, I don't know if I believe that, but that's what he's striving for. He full well understands there's no goddamn memorable future for people who wrote software. That's the one thing Jobs would never let go of, this idea that his and only his ideas could somehow change the world. Anyone here, without googling, do you know who invented the modern toaster? The remote control? The ceiling fan? I bet they thought they were pretty revolutionary and "disruptive" too. They're just things, now. Gates understands that, so he went for something else.
 
That's not the face of a 65-year-old, I thought he was 80. Must've been a stressful job or something.
Bill Gates has autism, which ages you prematurely. Defective methylation cycle -> insufficient cysteine -> insufficient glutathione, sulforaphane, and lipoic acid (important antioxidants) -> excess oxidative stress on every cell in the entire body.

Glad to know that people that got rich of exploiting Americans can now use their wealth improve their image and help everyone but Americans.
As far as these billionaires are concerned, Africa is just the store where you buy your Good Publicity stat back up after you trashed it screwing people in your own country to get insanely wealthy. If helping Appalachian coal miners was the most efficient way to get good publicity, there would be billions of dollars being shoveled at goodies for them. But the media hate them, so they get nothing. Regime change in the media would lead to a massive redistribution of social spending overnight.
 
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