The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust revealed Friday that it sold its last 7.7 million shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) during the first quarter, an outflow of approximately $3.2 billion that ends a decades-long position in the company Gates co-founded (1). That morning a very different story had already been revealed. Hours before Gates’ filing…
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Bryan Bedder/Getty Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commissions or income through links in the content below. Seventeen years ago, Bill Gates left his position at Microsoft, the company he founded, to focus on philanthropic efforts through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing billions of dollars in capital to high-profile projects each year….
