Gates a big investor in aircraft start-up
C|Net | at | by Mike
Bill Gates is betting some of his considerable fortune on a new plan: energy-efficient aviation. Speaking at Flight School, an offshoot of the PC Forum here run by News.com publisher CNET Networks, Eclipse CEO Vern Raburn acknowledged that the world's richest man--and his former boss at Microsoft--is one of the many equity investors in the company. Gates holds the second-largest stake, behind another Fortune 500 individual, he said. To date, Eclipse has not formally disclosed its investors.