According to lore, Bill Gates asked Myhrvold to set up IV to help defend Microsoft from patent trolls.
The lore at Intellectual Ventures has it that Bill Gates asked Myhrvold to set up the company to help defend Microsoft from attacks from patent trolls.
As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman BILL GATES asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections.
In testimony on Capitol Hill last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked about the conundrum.
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To that end, Pinchuk says that Gates has already asked him who else from Eastern Europe might also be a candidate.
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For example, when IBM first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
Another audience member, who identified himself the spouse of a Stanford student, asked Gates whether he agreed with the criticism that technology was making human connections weaker and more virtual.
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For example, when IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
Police arrived at the house and asked for Gates' identification.
This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.
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In his interview with Allen, Gates was unfairly coy when asked what he learned, citing knot-tying, basket-weaving and hiking as his chief lessons.
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Obama said he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the helicopter proposal.
As we descended into La Guardia, Gates ignored the flight attendant who asked him to shut off his computer.
When asked how to separate Gates money from Buffett money, however, the foundation politely explains that is not something they do.
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He told reporters that he asked the new defense secretary, Robert Gates, to study adding more troops.
Obama has also asked President Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, to remain on the job.
Asked about the discussions at Tuesday's hearing, Gates said that the idea had not come up when he was in Afghanistan last week.
When asked whether there is a danger of another technology stock market bubble, Gates said that definitely some stocks are overpriced.
Gates grew frustrated that the officer was continuing to question him in his home and asked for the officer's name and badge number, Ogletree said.
Through the Gates Foundation, we contacted Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, and asked if he would appear with a mystery guest on the cover of FORBES magazine to talk about philanthropy.
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