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Bill Gates' house. Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify][2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million. [3]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University, 2014. [10] The $60 million building houses Cornell's Computing and Information Science (CIS) program. [11] Bloomberg Center at Cornell Tech, Sep. 13, 2017, on Roosevelt Island, New York. [11] The $115 million, [12] five-story, [13] "net-zero energy" building uses the power it creates on its ...
Xanadu is the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of the film Citizen Kane (1941). The estate derives its name from the ancient city of Xanadu, known for its splendor. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, has been considered to be the main inspiration for Xanadu, due to the William Randolph Hearst /Kane comparison ...
Bill Gates reportedly has bunkers under all of his many homes. ... a founding partner at SHH Architecture and Interior Design in London, one of the world’s leading high net worth design studios ...
The Villa La Leopolda is a large detached villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera. The villa is situated in 7.3 hectares (18 acres) of grounds. The villa has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and, since 1987, by Edmond (1932–1999) and ...
e. " An Open Letter to Hobbyists " is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software. In the letter, Gates expressed frustration ...
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being its largest ...
The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft; Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft executive; and former Microsoft vice president Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and ...