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Bill Gates Founds New "Think Tank" Company
Homncruse sends in news of Bill Gates's new adventure, adding "I was working just one or two floors under this new office when it was all coming together. I even unknowingly shared an elevator with him at one time on his way up to the office." The article notes that the name "bgC3" derives from Bill Gates, catalyst, and the "third thing," neither Microsoft or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark. Public documents describe the new Gates entity — bgC3 LLC — as a 'think tank.' It's housed within a Kirkland office that the Microsoft co-founder established on his own after leaving his day-to-day executive role at the company this summer ... However, bgC3 will also oversee Gates' personal pursuit of breakthrough ideas in science and technology. [An] insider said the goal isn't necessarily to create new companies, although ideas could be passed along to Microsoft, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — or others — as it makes sense ..."
Did the name 'bgc3' make anyone else think "Borg Cubed"?
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With frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Ballmer: "Sea Bass"
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
GAWD! First Google with jet fighters... now Bill Gates with think TANKS. What's next?
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
Costco sells offices now?
while AMD buys an aircraft carrier from the near-bankrupt US Army
Umm that would be the Navy.
I smoked pot once. But I DID NOT inhale. Will you hire me?
An underground lair located in a volcano?
I bet he could afford real sharks.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
They are going to make crappy commercials staring Bill with has-been comedians.
"TV, a medium as it is neither rare nor well done." Ernie Kovacs
I have about a million items
wrong with microsoft software products
that could use some design review.
Not sure why it didn't happen the
first time, but maybe Bill has some
time on his hands now.
Burma Shave.
They all run Linux and Macs at BGC3.
;')
Bill sits down to his new Linux/KDE4 desktop PC and thinks.."Free at last, free at last....."