Bill Gates has a new company ... before some people have had a chance to realize he's no longer running Microsoft.
According to this story by Todd Bishop, a former Seattle P-I reporter who just started a site called TechFlash that will concentrate on Seattle technology news, Gates isn't getting back into software.
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.
Is this Bill Gates' next big business? A Gates insider gives an emphatic no -- saying it's not a commercial venture but rather a vehicle to coordinate the software mogul's work on his business and philanthropic endeavors.
He never has seemed like the sort to take his fortune and go fishing.
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