Tag: BILLIONAIRE

Everyone most likely knows about that little shack in the woods in the Seattle suburb of Medina on the shores of Lake Washington that Bill Gates created in 1997, but have you ever been inside? The $53 Million dollar, 66,000 square foot estate has all the technological goodies that you might not even be able dream up. With tons of centrally controlled music, lighting and video you can bet that ...

Billy may not be the world's richest man anymore. Is he sad? Not a chance, he still makes more than you. Carlos Slim, who was number 3 on the Forbes World's Richest People list last year breezed right by Gates on the global wealth chart recently. The Latin American tycoon dumped his shares in MCI and Altria to use the proceeds to fund his buyout of the Mexican telephone lines from the government. ...

Its time for some space travel for a former Word Doctor. This is no usual day at the office for a former Microsoft employee. Dr Charles Simonyi will be headed into space today from Kazakhstan at 1731 GMT. The 58 year old Dr Charles Simonyi made his money working a program that most of us have installed on our computers, Microsoft Word. The billionaire has spent $20m on the space trip, as well as ...

It's never too late to go back to school, and the same goes for billionaire's like Bill Gates. Bill Gates might not have to go back to take classes, but he will finally receive his degree. As many know, Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1973 during his junior year to run with a dream and create Microsoft with his pals Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates will be speaking at a Harvard ...