Don’t worry, Rupert “Humble” Murdoch. You’re not the only notable to have been confronted with a pastry full of righteous rage.
In an apparent hunt for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates (both famously college dropouts), Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, will pay 24 college-aged students $100,000 to not attend college for two years. Instead, the students will spend their time developing business ideas in areas such as biotechnology, education and energy.
“If drugs are sitting in a warehouse just waiting to be pilfered, we need to figure out a different way to make sure the people who really need them actually get them.” — DAVID SULLIVAN, a malaria expert at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, on a report that a [...]
“From the time we’d started together in Massachusetts, I’d assumed that our partnership would be a 50-50 proposition. But Bill had another idea. ‘It’s not right for you to get half,’ he said. ‘I should get more. I think it should be 60-40.’” – PAUL ALLEN in his new book, “Idea Man,” about his relationship [...]
See? He really isn’t the meanie portrayed in The Social Network.
Don’t mention the iPad! (NewsFeed mentioned it once but we think we got away with it!)
Giving aid to developing countries has long been a contentious issue in the fight against global poverty. But now Bill and Melinda Gates are setting the record straight.
After years of hard slog, amassing a $53 billion fortune, Bill Gates has finally been awarded the honor of a lifetime.
In other words, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are super-persuasive.
