Great ideas are almost never enough on their own. Strong leaders need pragmatism,obsessive business savvy and other skills beyond dreaming.
The Theranos founder is a maddeningly elusive character. We know what she did,but we don’t know what she was thinking when she did it.
It has been a historically polarising energy source but the likes of Elon Musk,Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are throwing their considerable weight behind nuclear power.
As the First Wives find themselves single in middle-age,what’s most interesting is what they do with their billions. In almost all cases,they’ve decided to give their money away.
Bill Gates struck up a relationship with Epstein after the financier was convicted of sex crimes,and the pair met numerous times,including at Epstein’s New York townhouse.
Melinda French Gates will increasingly give away her fortune through philanthropies other than the $US50 billion Gates Foundation,the Wall Street Journal reported.
Soaring sharemarkets and rising valuations of everything from mansions to crypto to commodities boosted the collective fortune of the world’s 500 richest people by more than $US1 trillion even COVID roiled the globe for a second year.
The Giving Pledge says 14 more billionaires,including the founders of Australian design startup Canva,promised this year to donate more than half their fortunes,joining a total to 231 philanthropists from 28 countries.
Microsoft shareholders have piled pressure on the company to increase transparency over its sexual harassment record in the wake of allegations made against Bill Gates.
“There are many parallels between COVID conspiracies around Bill Gates and theories about witches in the past,” said one researcher.
Scott Morrison underlined sections of Bill Gates’ book on how to beat climate change as he prepared to shift his government towards a net zero emissions target.