Bill Gates bet billions against Tesla in a method called short selling. Short selling involves borrowing a security from a broker and selling it on the open market. Short selling adds liquidity to a market by increasing the volume of buying and selling above normal levels. This volume would not exist without short sellers. The …
If Bill Gates kept all of his shares after the first day of the Microsoft IPO he would now be a trillionaire. This would even allow for several billion in charitable donations. Bill Gates had 49% of Microsoft going into the IPO of Microsoft and had 45% after the first day of the IPO. Microsoft …
The US Congress has authorized a new bill that supports the development of advanced nuclear power. Billionaire Bill Gates says “I cannot overstate how important this is”. The bill includes: long-term nuclear power purchase agreements advanced nuclear reactor research and development goals the establishment of a long-term nuclear power purchase agreement pilot programme a nuclear …
Commonwealth Fusion Systems a spinout from MIT has received additional funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (which investment from billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and Richard Branson). Commonwealth Fusion Systems will use new superconducting materials to make far stronger magnets for a smaller Tokamak fusion system. The planned fusion experiment, called Sparc, …
There was a flurry of speculation that Bill Gates was going to build a smart city in Arizona but it is almost certainly an ordinary real estate investment. Bill Gates uses Cascade Investment for investment in stocks like railways, waste removal, and agricultural equipment companies. It has real estate investments like the Four Seasons and …
Bill Gates has personally invested $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund—a private fund working to diversify the clinical pipeline and identify new targets for treatment. Most of the major pharmaceutical companies continue to pursue the amyloid and tau pathways. DDF complements their work by supporting startups as they explore less mainstream approaches to treating …
Bill Gates has bought a majority interest in 25,000 acres of land about 45 minutes west of Phoenix, in an area called the West Valley. It is an area called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own “smart city.” …