Bill Gates's Mysterious New Company

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. Is this Bill Gates’s 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.

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