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Anonymous ID: 5dca35 Sept. 8, 2024, 7:41 p.m. No.21555176   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5186

Bill Gates says he wants to work another 20 to 30 years: ‘Warren Buffett still comes into the office six days a week’'

 

For Bill Gates, the thought of working less than full-time “sounds awful.”

 

Gates, 68, says he hopes to follow in the footsteps of longtime friend Warren Buffett, who serves as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 94 and has no imminent plans to retire. “My friend Warren Buffett still comes into the office six days a week,” Gates tells CNBC Make It. “So, I hope my health allows me to be like Warren.”

 

The Microsoft co-founder still has so much he wants to do, he says. He remains a “technology advisor” for Microsoft, and spends much of his time using his net worth — currently $128 billion, Forbes estimates — to fund potential solutions for the global issues he sees as most pressing, particularly disease, poverty, climate change and access to healthcare and education.

 

Those issues are the focus of Gates’ latest project: an upcoming five-part Netflix docuseries called “What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates,” set to premiere on September 18.

 

“The [Bill & Melinda Gates] Foundation will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year. We haven’t gotten rid of polio, we haven’t got rid of malaria. I’m very, very committed to those things,” says Gates. “We want to cut childhood deaths in half again, from 5 million to 2.5 million.”

 

That’s a big reason why Gates wants to wait as long as possible significantly lightening his workload, he says.

 

In his mind, that means “at least 10 years, if my health allows, working at this level,” he says, adding: “Hopefully it’ll be more like 20 or 30.”

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/07/bill-gates-retirement-sounds-awful-ill-work-like-warren-buffett.html

Anonymous ID: 5dca35 Sept. 8, 2024, 7:42 p.m. No.21555181   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5202 >>5330 >>5501 >>5596

Bill Gates says he wants to work another 20 to 30 years: ‘Warren Buffett still comes into the office six days a week’

 

For Bill Gates, the thought of working less than full-time “sounds awful.”

 

Gates, 68, says he hopes to follow in the footsteps of longtime friend Warren Buffett, who serves as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 94 and has no imminent plans to retire. “My friend Warren Buffett still comes into the office six days a week,” Gates tells CNBC Make It. “So, I hope my health allows me to be like Warren.”

 

The Microsoft co-founder still has so much he wants to do, he says. He remains a “technology advisor” for Microsoft, and spends much of his time using his net worth — currently $128 billion, Forbes estimates — to fund potential solutions for the global issues he sees as most pressing, particularly disease, poverty, climate change and access to healthcare and education.

 

Those issues are the focus of Gates’ latest project: an upcoming five-part Netflix docuseries called “What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates,” set to premiere on September 18.

 

“The [Bill & Melinda Gates] Foundation will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year. We haven’t gotten rid of polio, we haven’t got rid of malaria. I’m very, very committed to those things,” says Gates. “We want to cut childhood deaths in half again, from 5 million to 2.5 million.”

 

That’s a big reason why Gates wants to wait as long as possible significantly lightening his workload, he says.

 

In his mind, that means “at least 10 years, if my health allows, working at this level,” he says, adding: “Hopefully it’ll be more like 20 or 30.”

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/07/bill-gates-retirement-sounds-awful-ill-work-like-warren-buffett.html

Anonymous ID: 5dca35 Sept. 8, 2024, 7:45 p.m. No.21555193   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5330 >>5343 >>5501 >>5596

Dak Prescott, Cowboys agree to record $240M deal over 4 years

 

The Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott have agreed on a four-year, $240 million contract extension that will make the star quarterback the highest-paid player in NFL history and keep him in a Cowboys uniform through the 2028 season, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Sunday.

 

The deal includes $231 million guaranteed, which is the most in league history. Deshaun Watson's fully guaranteed deal with the Cleveland Browns was worth $230 million.

 

"I know that these numbers are beyond anything that I could have ever imagined," Jones said of the guaranteed money in Prescott's deal.

 

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The $60 million average annual value of Prescott's contract is the highest in NFL history, easily surpassing recent deals worth $55 million in average annual value signed by Cincinnati's Joe Burrow, Green Bay's Jordan Love and Jacksonville's Trevor Lawrence. Prescott also received a record $80 million signing bonus, passing Love's previous high of $75 million.

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41176649/sources-dak-prescott-cowboys-agree-record-240m-deal

Anonymous ID: 5dca35 Sept. 8, 2024, 7:49 p.m. No.21555212   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5330 >>5501 >>5596

Top 10 people most likely to reach trillionaire status

 

On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth milestone once thought to be unreachable: the world’s first billionaire.

 

“Standard (Oil) at $2,014 makes its head a billionaire,” blared The New York Times headline, adding that Standard Oil’s soaring share price “makes John D. Rockefeller, founder and largest shareholder, almost certainly a billionaire.”

 

More than a century after the first U.S. billionaire (in measurable dollar terms), the question of who will be first to reach the trillionaire mark continues to fascinate. At least a half-dozen companies have done it, most recently Berkshire Hathaway

, which topped $1 trillion just before Warren Buffett’s 94th birthday. Nvidia

is now at $2.6 trillion, having hit the 13-figure club last year.

 

And what about individuals? According to a new report from Informa Connect Academy, which predicts trillionaire status based on average annual growth rate in wealth, Tesla

CEO Elon Musk will likely be the first trillionaire.

 

Musk is currently the world’s richest person, with $251 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Connect Academy forecasts Musk will become a trillionaire sometime in 2027, assuming that his wealth continues to grow at an annual average rate of 110%.

 

The second to reach trillionaire status, according to the report, will be India’s Gautam Adani, founder of the Adani Group conglomerate. If Adani maintains his recent annual growth rate of 123%, the report says he will be a trillionaire in 2028.

 

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who has seen his wealth skyrocket from $3 billion to more than $90 billion in five years, would become a trillionaire by 2028, according to the report. His wealth would have to continue growing at an average annual rate of 112%. Nvidia’s stock is already up about 115% this year, after more than tripling last year.

 

Fourth on the list is Indonesia’s Prajogo Pangestu, founder of the Indonesian energy and mining conglomerate Barito Pacific. The report predicts Pangestu could reach trillionaire status by 2028.

 

Rounding out the top five would be LVMH

CEO Bernard Arnault, who is currently the world’s third-richest person, with just under $200 billion. The report has the luxury king becoming a trillionaire sometime in 2030, along with Meta

CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

 

Some top billionaires who seem like strong candidates to quickly reach the four-comma club don’t make the top 10. Jeff Bezos, currently the world’s second-richest person, with $200 billion, according to Bloomberg, is listed at No. 12, and wouldn’t become a trillionaire until 2036. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Google

founders, are also slated to wait 12 years to become trillionaires — although artificial intelligence may accelerate their rise.

 

Granted, wealth-watchers have been predicting the first trillionaire for years. And the stocks of Tesla, Nvidia and LVMH may not go up as fast in the next five years as they did in the past five.

 

Yet more than 100 years after the first billionaire, the first trillionaire could well be crowned in the next decade.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/06/top-10-people-most-likely-to-reach-trillionaire-status.html

Anonymous ID: 5dca35 Sept. 8, 2024, 7:50 p.m. No.21555223   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5231 >>5246 >>5330 >>5501 >>5596

Former President George W. Bush has no plans to endorse in the election

 

Former President George W. Bush does not plan to endorse a candidate for president, his office told NBC News on Saturday.

 

When asked whether the former president or his wife, Laura, would endorse a candidate or make public how they will vote, Bush's office said "no."

 

"President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago," the office added.

 

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign declined to comment but pointed to the campaign's Republican outreach efforts.

 

Bush's former vice president, Dick Cheney, announced on Friday that he would back Harris in the November election.

 

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Cheney said in a statement. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

 

Days earlier, the former vice president's daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, said that she would cast her ballot for Harris. Both Cheneys, who are Republicans, have been critical of former President Donald Trump, and the younger Cheney has been especially outspoken.

 

Responding to reporters' questions on Saturday, Harris said that she was "honored" to have the Cheneys' endorsements, adding that it "really reinforces for them that we love our country, and we have more in common than what separates."

 

The fact that Bush is not endorsing his party's nominee is itself notable. In 2012, Bush said he was backing Republican candidate Mitt Romney against former President Barack Obama. Four years earlier, Bush endorsed the now-late Sen. John McCain for president in 2008.

 

Both former Bush presidents' teams said in 2016 that the father and son would avoid commenting on Trump. Instead, the younger Bush worked to support Republican senators. Neither Bush nor his wife voted for either major party presidential nominee in 2016, a spokesperson said that year.

 

The elder Bush president died in 2018, but the younger said in 2021 that he wrote in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for president in 2020.

 

Several prominent moderate Republicans and former Trump administration officials have broken with the former president and backed Harris, despite having policy differences.

 

The Harris campaign last month unveiled more than two dozen endorsements from Republicans, including former Republican Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts; former Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia; and former Trump administration press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

 

Later in August, more than 200 former staffers for both Bush presidents, McCain and Romney signed a letter endorsing Harris for president.

 

As part of the campaign's outreach to GOP voters, the Harris campaign hired a national Republican engagement director to focus on independent and moderate Republican voters, as well as a Republicans for Harris program.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-president-george-w-bush-no-plans-endorse-2024-election-rcna170055