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Bill Gates stock transactions

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Stock transactions by Bill Gates. He periodically sells a few million of Microsoft shares. Wonder what he does with the $300 million or so every week.

Bill Gates in Coke ad

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Bill Gates in a Coca Cola ad. In August 2005, Bill Gates starred in a Coca Cola commercial. He wanders in the halls of Microsoft late one night looking for someone to loan him change for the Coke machine. “I’ll pay you back,” he promises.

Talent Wars

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Talent wars. The interesting part was the first three paragraphs.

Flying on the Delta Shuttle with Bill Gates 12 years ago, I asked, “What Microsoft competitor worries you most?”

“Goldman Sachs.” I gave Gates a startled look. Was Microsoft about to try the investment banking business? “Software,” he said, “is an IQ business. Microsoft must win the IQ war, or we won’t have a future. I don’t worry about Lotus or IBM, because the smartest guys would rather come to work for Microsoft. Our competitors for IQ are investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.”

I spent five days traveling the country with Gates, and he must have talked about IQ a hundred times. Getting the brightest bulbs to work at Microsoft has always been his obsession. It’s paid off. Microsoft does close to $40 billion in sales and has some 60,000 employees. That’s a whopping $650,000-plus of revenue per employee, topping IBM’s sales per employee twofold.

Along comes Google, with its revenue run rate of $6 billion and about 4,000 employees. Google’s sales per employee are $1.5 million, or 2.3 times that of Microsoft. This is like comparing Babe Ruth to Home Run Baker. Google now beats Microsoft in the IQ war.

Comments

Jayant 3 Nov 2005 2:46 am: Just an opinion. I think there is subtle difference between the two talents. Both are sharp but one is more commercially driven. I do think lot of behaviour changes happen due to that orientation

Petals Around the Rose

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Petals Around the Rose. A simple dice parlour game that Bill Gates apparantly cracked by memorising the sequences.

Comments

SlaSh 17 Oct 2005 11:15 am: hey is that you who writes articles and does interviews by the name S.Anand in the mag Outlook
S Anand 17 Oct 2005 1:29 pm: No, that is someone else.
jayant 18 Oct 2005 4:08 pm: Any place where I can get a solution. Sorry to say but I am dumb..:-(
Raghav 18 Oct 2005 7:41 pm: As the man says - “The name of the game is petals around the rose, and the name is important” :-)
Dhar 19 Oct 2005 3:29 am: Arrgh! I have not been able to figure this out. Utterly Frustrating…Solution appreciated… Please mail me at sumit.dhar at gmail
Aman 19 Oct 2005 10:59 am: the solution is in the name…….for every odd no throw of dice, simply add the digits surrounding the centre on on each dice…
A 19 Oct 2005 2:37 pm: aman, I dont know if I shld kill you for posting the solution or shld thank u for making my day…
R 20 Oct 2005 3:22 am: what happened to your blogroll?
ritzkini 20 Oct 2005 5:36 am: fantastic game..and so simple a solution..once u have read it… :P
S Anand 20 Oct 2005 8:25 am: Killed my blogroll. I use Google Reader now. Will post the OPML.
jayant 20 Oct 2005 3:25 pm: Well still didnt figure out…it does nt add up…and if even throw, then?
jayant 20 Oct 2005 3:26 pm: Anand, any clues…since u posted, u know of any answers?
S Anand 20 Oct 2005 3:39 pm: Have mailed you.
Prakash 17 Nov 2005 11:55 am: I got the answer for the same ! it was a good one

Gates beats Stallman in India

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Gates beats Stallman in India. via RobotWisdom

Bill Gates Foundation fights AIDS in India

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Bill donated $100mn to fight AIDS in India. Interestingly, just contrast this photo of him wearing a ’tilak’ with his 1977 snap with Paul Allen. In the latter, he almost looks like a girl! via The Register

Microsoft to focus on security

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Microsoft will now focus on security. Thank heavens.

Credit cards stolen from big shots

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

The greatest hacks ever. And now, credit cards stolen from Bill Gates, George Soros and Yoshiro Mori.

Tomments

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Tomments. Tom Murcko, CEO of InvestorGuide.com, writes about once a month, when he feels something important isn’t being said by anyone else, like whether Bill Gates is a good investor.