Bill Gates is retiring

posted by Jeff | Thursday, June 15, 2006, 8:53 PM | comments: 3

Bill will still be the chair of Microsoft, but he's going to step away from his executive role. He wants to spend more time with his charitable foundation.

When you're worth $50 billion, how could you not want to be more interested in trying to have a positive impact on the world? I would do that in a heartbeat. In fact, I would've probably done it years ago if I were him. We can all do our part at the local level, and that's great, but imagine being so loaded that you can single handedly immunize a small country against a disease or drop several new buildings into a university. I honestly wouldn't know where to start!


Comments

Jack

June 16, 2006, 2:12 AM #

Check out Time's "Person of the Year" issue from this past year - he has been doing it. Bill Gates isn't just into "charitable giving" like so many other rich people - he's the real deal.

Jeff

June 16, 2006, 2:57 AM #

I'm aware of that. My point was just that if it was me, I probably would've done it sooner.

iceracer

June 16, 2006, 6:28 PM #

I will watch with interest at what Gates actually does ... relative to his wealth he is hardly a philanthropist ... much of his giving has been motivated by business interests in the past ... any giving is of course WELCOME regardless of the motivation


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