1. Bill Gates And Melinda French Gates Bill Gates launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alongside his then-wife Melinda French Gates in 2000. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife pledged to donate 95% of their wealth and, by 2010, had given $17 billion away to their foundation to support health projects and tackle poverty […]
According to a regulatory filing on Friday, George Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management, sold $194.4 million of ViacomCBS Inc, $77 million of Baidu Inc shares and $46.4 million of stock in Vipshop Holdings Ltd. Soros’ firm also liquidated positions in Discovery Inc and Tencent Music Entertainment Group. Archegos, the family office that manages the […]
Soros, known to regularly support Democratic congressional candidates and attorney generals, has donated $1 million to racial justice organisation Colour of Change PAC. The organisation, which supports the defunding of the police following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others, has called itself the United States’ largest online racial organisation. The $1 […]
Gates will join the Soros Economic Development Fund in a deal to buy Mologic, the UK-based lateral flow test developer which has created 10-minute Covid tests. It is hoped that the tests will cost as little as $1 to produce. The covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that lateral flow tests, previously most commonly used for pregnancy […]
Some people believe that becoming rich is a question of luck. I disagree. Whether chance presents you with a good opportunity or not is not the key question, but rather: Do you actually recognise the opportunity in front of you? Or do you fail to appreciate it for what it is? As the Swiss author […]
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