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Native Nebraskan Jeff Raikes retires as CEO of Gates Foundation
Jeff Raikes, the Ashland, Neb., native and namesake for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, today announced he will step down as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Long a champion for the area, in his email to employees Raikes said the lessons he’s learned “will not only inspire…
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Software exec tells Raikes School students to ask courageous questions
Before the Raikes School’s Design Studio Showcase on Friday afternoon on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Doug Burgum, the former CEO and chairman of Great Plains Software and a former senior VP at Microsoft, delivered a speech. “Doug was a special leader in our industry,” said the school’s namesake, Jeff Raikes, who helped…
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Tom Osborne, two ex-Microsoft execs and an astronaut walk into a bar…
Today, one of the men delivered the keynote speech at an event hosted by the school named after the other man. And, for the most part, Doug Burgum and Jeff Raikes conducted themselves with the sort of decorum expected of a couple of former high-ranking Microsoft executives. But on Thursday night, Burgum and Raikes more…
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Jeff Raikes on Huskers, area startups, entrepreneurial advice (Video)
Jeff Raikes’ professed allegiance to Nebraska is more than just lip service. As Raikes, a native Nebraskan who lives in Washington, delivered a keynote in La Vista last Friday, the day before the University of Nebraska and University of Washington were set to face off in football, he assured the crowd that he’s a Husker…
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Jeff Raikes on the Raikes School, entrepreneurs doing good (Video)
Jeff Raikes resides in Seattle and has spent three-plus decades on the West Coast, but take some time to pick Raikes’ brain and you’ll find he’s still a Nebraska boy in many ways. Raikes, formerly a manager at Apple Computer and senior executive at Microsoft is now the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates…
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Jeff Raikes speaks about entrepreneurship in Nebraska
Nebraska Entrepreneur recently caught up with Jeff Raikes and asked him a few questions about entrepreneurship in Nebraska. Raikes is a Nebraska native who currently serves as the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To see his full bio, visit gatesfoundation.org/leadership. Here’s the full transcript…
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Live-streaming now: Jeff Raikes at UNL on The Business of Doing Good
Starting at 2 p.m. CDT, Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be speaking live at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His talk will be titled “The Business of Doing Good.” Watch the live stream at raikes.unl.edu.
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World-Herald spotlights three very accomplished Nebraskans
Resembling a ‘where are they now’ feature, the Omaha World-Herald’s front-page story yesterday highlighted the lives of three individuals: a very early Microsoft employee, an astronaut currently in space, and an atomic physicist. The big catch, and the reason it deserved the front page: the three were childhood friends in the rural city of Ashland,…
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SPN Interviews David Graff of Agile Sports Technologies
I had the opportunity to catch up with David Graff, CEO of Agile Sports Technologies, while in Lincoln and he shared with me some of the amazing impact their company has already made in a relatively short time. Agile Sports was founded in February 2006 by Graff, Brian Kaiser and John Wirtz, and was officially…
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Evan Williams video from UNL
As we reported, Evan Williams of Twitter was at UNL’s Raikes School last Friday afternoon. It was interesting to hear directly from Evan on his vision, history and outlook into Twitter’s future. Enjoy and stay tuned for more stories we’re going to cut of some of the outstanding students enrolled at the school.