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2. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Lost Bill Gates as a Director This Year. Here are its 14 Board Members
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today May 29 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ire Hathaway lost one of its highest-profile directors whenMicrosoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates resigned this year. The famed investor's conglomerate still counts his right-hand man Charlie Munge...
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3. Warren Buffett Is Too Cautious; Berkshire Needs an Activist, Investor Says.
  
  Explore Financial Investment News May 4 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...tions about human behavior being changed by this virus,” Smead adds. “It appears that he, Charlie Munger, and Bill Gates share the same dour view of the next year. Age appears to be a factor in Berkshire playing defense....
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4. Buffett's Berkshire Taps Former AmEx CEO Kenneth Chenault for Board
  
  Explore reuters.com Mar 14 2020 BoardMoves
  
  ...ault has been nominated to the conglomerates board of directors, replacing Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) co-founder Bill Gates... ...
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5. Gates to Leave Boards of Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway
  
  Explore msn.com Mar 14 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the companys board of directors, marking the biggest boardroom departure in the tech industry since the death of longtime rival and Apple Inc. co-foun...
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6. Ambri Appoints Board Director
  
  Explore businesswire.com Mar 11 2020 BoardMoves
  
  ...10, when the project achieved significant technical breakthroughs. Ambri’s investors include Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates and Total. More information is available at www.ambri.com. About Battelle Every day, the people of ...
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7. Warren Buffett Turned Down a Chance to Buy Tiffany's
  
  Explore Business Insider Jan 1 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...nst Apollo Global Management after the private equity firm raised its offer. Warren Buffett tried to persuade Bill Gates to spend $370 million on an engagement ring...
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8. Corporations Grow Nervous as Compensation for Directors Rises
  
  Explore insurancejournal.com Nov 12 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...d not return email and calls seeking comment. Some companies are proud to be miserly. Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates received just $3,300 last year for his work as a director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which is run ...
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9. U.S. Company Directors Compensated More Than Ever, But Now Risk Backlash
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Nov 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...id not return email and calls seeking comment. Some companies are proud to be miserly. Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates received just $3,300 last year for his work as a director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, which is run b...
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10. An Insider Takes Aim at Corporate America’s ‘Elite Charade’
  
  Explore fortune.com Aug 20 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ake lives better." Some plutocrats get off easier than others. Giridharadas has kind words, for instance, for Bill Gates, notably the work his foundation has done in Africa, where some governments don't have the capacity...
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11. America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation
  
  Explore fortune.com Aug 19 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ay they approach their jobs. If you were to trace the history of that change, you might start with the speech Bill Gates gave in Davos in 2008, in his last year of full-time service at Microsoft, calling for a new “creat...
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12. Pivotal Commware Announces Appointment of Glenn Lurie to Its Board of Directors
  
  Explore Digital Journal May 14 2018 BoardMoves
  
  ...nce Fund, Pivotal Commware secured an initial funding round of $17 million in June 2017 with investments from Bill Gates, The Thermo Companies and DIG Investment, along with those from Lux Capital, private equity investo...
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13. Allergan and Takeda May Fight Over Shire
  
  Explore The New York Times Apr 19 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... Bon-Ton Stores is going out of business. (WSJ) • Grail, a cancer-detection start-up backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, is reportedly working to raise $1 billion. RealSelf, an online hub for cosmetic surgery informatio...
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14. Corporate Boards Are Looking for CEOs Who Aren’t Old White Men
  
  Explore Bloomberg Apr 18 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...as coached by AutoNation’s lead director, Michael Larson, the chief investment officer of BMGI, which manages Bill Gates’s non-Microsoft investments and those of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. (Larson also si...
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15. Amazon Thrives by Thumbing its Nose at Wall Street
  
  Explore MarketWatch Aug 9 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  ...me the world’s wealthiest man when his net worth (north of $90 billion) surpassed that of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates. That’s about the annual gross domestic product of Ukraine and the Slovak Republic. That day, Amazo...
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16. Microsoft: An Activist Investment Analysis
  
  Explore Investopedia Jan 12 2016 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ss with Microsoft. After all, Ballmer owned nearly five times as many shares as ValueAct in 2013 and Chairman Bill Gates, a long-time supporter of Ballmer, owned even more. It appeared Ubben and Morfit were badly outnumb...
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17. Microsoft Said to Be Close to Naming a New Chief
  
  Explore The New York Times Feb 3 2014 BoardNews
  
  ...oes not intend to pursue the kind of far-reaching shake-up many people within the industry have called for. Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, may step down as chairman to advise Mr. Nadella on strategy. Jean-Christop...
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