There are some in today’s economic circles who state that if the United States is to survive and prosper today’s volatile economic climate‚ it’s only going to be because of independent entrepreneurs. If this is the case‚ then it’s because men like Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler‚ and their combined visionary business savvy‚ have responded to help steer entrepreneur ventures to the max. Adam Goldenberg’s Youthful Enthusiasm Having begun his trajectory of business successes at the ripe old age
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Eric Pulier the Philanthropist There exist thousands of phenomenally successful entrepreneurs throughout history who have impacted lives in many positive ways and built the economy through their innovations and ideas. Some of the wealthiest of these have stood out in their philanthropic efforts and Eric Pulier clearly deserves a spot on this list. He is a big name in the technology industry and his innovative success track speaks for itself. Using his experience and intellect he makes predictions
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1. At the beginning of the film‚ Steve Jobs thanks Bill Gates for "standing with us"‚ why? Support your answer(s) with specific information from the internet. I don’t know why Steve Jobs thanks Bill Gates for standing with us. I thought that with the merger of two small enterprises they had joined forces an outside threat‚ ie. IBM. The IBM as a company represented the censorship and government control exerted on budding capitalists in the early 80’s. 2. Who did Steve Jobs think was the "enemy"
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BENSON Bill Gates and Steve Jobs When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer‚ it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh‚ it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack’s Model 100‚ the first truly portable computer… Thanks to that business (and more)‚ Gates… has become America’s software tycoon.1 — 1984 Time article‚ “Bill Gates: A Hard-Core Technoid” Jobs is‚ in a sense‚ the anti-Gates: a master
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Achieving effective leadership is a process. This paper considers the different attributes to becoming an effective leader. The paper firstly defines leadership‚ and then introduces two modern day business leaders Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates‚ giving brief biographies on their lives and leadership qualities. It then outlines characteristics of an effective leader and compares and contrasts the two leaders as such. The paper concludes by showing the more effective leader and why that
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line managers My Answers Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He is co-founder‚ chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation - the world’s leading provider of software for personal computer‚ co-founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation‚ the biggest charity in the world. He is the world’s third richest person since 2008 (Forbes‚ 2012) and one of the 100 most influential people in the world (Time Magazine). Bill Gates is the living statue for not
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Chapter 2 Case Study: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 1. What do you think Bill and Melinda Gates’ personality traits are for each of the Big Five Dimensions? Compare the two. Answer: Traits are distinguishing features‚ or characteristics or properties of an individual. The chapter discusses the Big Five Model of Personality traits and uses it as an accepted guide to classify personalities. Both Bill and Melinda Gates possessed various aspects of each category listed within the realm
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millions. Bill Gates‚ founder of Microsoft began to donate money after learning about a disease that kills half a million children each year. This disease is called rotavirus. He was astonished that more money and attention wasn’t being given to stopping this disease. It also shocked him to know that some people‚ according to their actions‚ don’t consider all human lives to be of equal value. This is when Bill and Melinda Gates stepped in. During the World Health Assembly‚ Bill Gates made a speech
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William H. Gates (1955- ) may be the greatest philanthropist of our time‚ if the sheer sum of wealth donated to philanthropic causes is the measure. By 2002‚ Gates had given sixty percent of his wealth to charity and contends that‚ over his lifetime‚ the total will be ninety-five percent. He is viewed as the twenty-first century’s Rockefeller or Carnegie. He earned his wealth as co-founder (with friend Paul Allen) and chief executive officer of Microsoft (a major software company and one of the largest
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wealth to charity. 2. Bill Gates (USA) - $56 billion‚ Microsoft Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution‚ Gates‚ 55‚ dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Microsoft went public in 1986 and by the next year‚ the soaring stock made Gates‚ at age 31‚ the youngest self-made billionaire. In 2008 he stepped down from what is now the world’s largest software firm to work at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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