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Gates Corporation sign at company headquarters in 1144 Fifteenth, Denver, Colorado. Gates Industrial Corporation plc, based in Denver, Colorado, is a manufacturer of power transmission belts and fluid power products, which are used in diverse industrial and automotive applications. [1]
SEATTLE (AP) — William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Gates died peacefully Monday at his beach home in ...
William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
The novel nature of his research caught the fancy of the popular press of his day. Misinterpretations and fabrications were common. Despite Gates's repeated clarifications and denials, the reports took on a life of their own; some persist today. Gates and his system of generating ideas are mentioned in Napoleon Hill's popular book Think and ...
A. Abe Aaron; Antonio Abad; Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals; Felipe José Abárzuza; Awni Abd al-Hadi; Abd al-Sattar al-Aboussi; Abdul Rahman Mohamed Yassin; Max Abegglen
As of Oct. 11, 2023, Forbes estimates Bill Gates’ net worth at an astonishing $109.7 billion. He currently holds only about 1.3% of Microsoft shares. He currently holds only about 1.3% of ...
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft is a memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, published in 2011 by Portfolio, a Penguin Group imprint. A New York Times Best Seller, the book recounts how Allen became enamored with computers at an early age, conceived the idea for Microsoft, recruited his friend Bill Gates to join him, and launched what would become the world's most ...
Phyllis Lucille Gates (December 7, 1925 – January 4, 2006) was an American secretary and interior decorator, known for her three-year marriage to the actor Rock Hudson. The story of their marriage was depicted in the TV film Rock Hudson (1990), starring Daphne Ashbrook as Gates and Thomas Ian Griffith as Hudson.