Malta, the renewable energy storage project born in Alphabet’s moonshot factory X, is now on its own and flush with $26 million from a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures . Concord New Energy Group and Alfa Laval also invested in the round. Project Malta launched last year in Alphabet’s X (formerly Google X) with […]
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Reddit’s Secret Santa program enlists some pretty awesome star power
The world’s largest online secret Santa game has has nearly a million players, including a handful of celebrities. Read more…More about Reddit, Holiday, Bill Gates, Snoop Dogg, and Secret Santa
View More Reddit’s Secret Santa program enlists some pretty awesome star powerHere are Bill Gates’ 5 favorite books of 2018
It’s cuddle-up-with-a-book season, y’all.
On Monday, Bill Gates released a list of his five favorite books of 2018 on his blog, without an Amazon link in sight.
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Apropos of nothing, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has decided to share his thoughts on the HBO comedy Silicon Valley.
On Monday, Gates published a new post on his blog — known as GatesNotes (seriously) — about the tech industry satire, which is currently in between seasons. Gates sees Silicon Valley as a rare example of pop culture getting life in the tech world “right.”
“If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series Silicon Valley,” Gates wrote.
Bill Gates: apparently not opposed to dick jokes!
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View More Bill Gates really identifies with this ‘Silicon Valley’ character, but he has one complaintBill Gates just brought a jar of poop on stage — for a very good reason
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Bill Gates just brought a jar of human poop on stage during a speech. Yes, you read that right.
To be fair, there was a good reason for Gates’ use of the unusual prop. He was appearing at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing, China, talking about the need for safe sanitation throughout the world and the Gates Foundation’s role in funding better sanitation options.
While talking about the diseases and other threats that comes to exposure to excrement in areas of the world without adequate sanitation, Gates plopped his jar of poop right next to him for full effect. Read more…
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Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more
The VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries is offering early-stage startups access to its killer network.
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Vegans, rejoice! JUST’s sustainable egg alternative is set to arrive in stores this fall. The vegan foods company, formerly known as Hampton Creek, will sell the egg-free and dairy-free “egg” in certain grocery store chains across the U.S. JUST co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick, whose company was valued at $1.1 billion last year, says fans […]
View More JUST’s plant-based eggs are coming to a grocery store near youRebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up
In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man’s game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d’oeuvre. Both Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff have donated to SF hospitals that now bear their names. Gordon Moore has given away $5B […]
View More Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom upAmazon founder Jeff Bezos became the richest person in modern history today
Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and chief executive, is certainly having a happy Prime Day today.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily tracker of the world’s richest people, Bezos was worth more than $150 billion this morning, which …
Bill Gates thinks Elon Musk’s AI bots working together to beat humans in Dota 2 is a ‘huge milestone’
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, is a huge fan of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence research company OpenAI.
Musk cofounded the non-profit in 2015 with entrepreneur Sam Altman, and the company received more than $1 billion in funding at its incep…
The erosion of Web 2.0
It seems quaint to imagine now but the original vision for the web was not an information superhighway. Instead, it was a newspaper that fed us only the news we wanted. This was the central thesis brought forward in the late 1990s and prophesied by thinkers like Bill Gates – who expected a beautiful, customized […]
View More The erosion of Web 2.0Here is where CEOs of heavily funded startups went to school
CEOs of funded startups tend to be a well-educated bunch, at least when it comes to university degrees. Yes, it’s true college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates can still do well. But Crunchbase data shows that most startup chief executives have an advanced degree, commonly from a well-known and prestigious university.
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