Gates isn’t done just yet; preliminary bgC3 details emerge

By on Oct 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Rumor October 23, 2008

You didn’t think Willy G would be content fading away into the background after stepping down as the head of Microsoft, did you? Not a chance. Of course the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a place where Bill can still play boss but Gates never was a one-horse town kind of guy. Enter “bgC3 LLC”. Details regarding Gates’ latest venture are still scarce and much of the detail we have is unconfirmed but rest assured, bgC3 is likely a name we’ll be seeing plenty of in the coming months and years. Firstly, what does the name mean? “bg” obviously represents initials and is short for “Boy Genius”, err, “Bill Gates”. The meaning of “C3″ is still a bit up in the air. The “3″ is thought to indicate that this is Big Bill’s third major venture, after Microsoft and his foundation. The “C” however, is a bit of a mystery. The first possibility is “Carillon”, as the company was initially called Carillon Holdings before formally shifting to bgC3 shortly after Gates left his full time role at Microsoft. Next up is “Company” as in, this is Bill’s third company. Lastly, reportedly from a Gates insider, is “Catylist”. Mmm, interesting. Public documents don’t offer many specifics but they do describe the company as a “Think Tank”. These days, think tank could mean a million different things. It could be anything from a big office where Bill and his friends sit around talking about yachts, perhaps to a larger scale of an idea incubator a la New York’s betaworks or even something more involved like Mountain View’s Y Combinator. Or perhaps Bill has made enough money for this lifetime and he’s assembling a crack team of brains to combat large-scale issues such as energy, the economy or the Yankees payroll. Whatever the case may be, Gates has a tendency to do things big and we expect bgC3 to be no different.

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  • red014

    Maybe it stands for 3 C-words… Something like “Crappy Computer Company” or “Creep with Candy for Children”

  • Snuggles

    You should be be-headed.. H0M0!

  • mangenius

    I wouldnt mind starting a crappy computer company if it made me a trillionaire.

    But its cool for you to poke fun at him while you post on a blog on a computer probably running his shite – loser

  • Esoth

    bg3C? Maybe a reference to 501C3 in the tax code (not-for-profit)?

  • chris

    Esoth. Doubtful but interesting.

    There should be a boy genius contest for a free phone to whoever can guess what it stands for.

  • red014

    Touchy, touchy… Not in a joking mood today, are we? Sorry to get your panties in a bunch.

  • Mike (Philly)

    chapter three

  • Scott

    C3 = Command, Control and Communications. Anyone with any military or other ‘interesting’ experience will know this. Makes perfect sense to transition into the next digital frontier when the only economy that remains flush with trillions is that of peace (er… keeping the peace?).

  • ND

    that’s exactly where I was going! Jackpot!

    Hey BG, if we are right get us a really great prize. Aight!?

  • Evan

    I think this name is much better than his first idea, 2g1c. Thats “two girls one cup” for those of you playing at home

  • http://www.k5live.com likeabite

    lmao @ Evan…i love how these billionaires can do whatever the hell they please lol. There should be a price here tho BGR

  • Beezy

    LOL @ Evan.. and billionares can do whatever they want because we oops.. they know what we.. i mean they are doing.. how u think we became millionares to begin with?!?!?

  • omar

    simple:

    Bill Gates Company 3

  • Kemis

    The 3 most likely stands for William Henry Gates III. It’s his real, whole name.

  • Phillip R

    I just thought it was funny to run across the misspelled word “catylist”, doesn’t anyone run a spell-check first? How funny, that people don’t know how to spell “catalyst”. Learn to spell, folks.

  • http://www.k5live.com likeabite

    It’s called a mistake Phillip. Welcome to the real world.

  • http://kanseiranch.org kansei

    @likeabite: I like to consider it a failure of the public education system in the United States.

  • http://www.k5live.com likeabite

    ^^^ And I take it you’ve never made one in your life before, correct?

  • chuck

    lmao likeabite! ;-) .. Philip with an eye for detail and Kansei with ‘BIG PICTURE’ mind like yours.. seems like you’ll make fine candidates for the bgc3 project
    p.s- dexter notice this forum is not for spelling mistakes though!

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