Bill Gates sold Corbis outright to a Chinese company in 2016
Beate Chelette · EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates · Jun 14, 2016 · at 4:00
Entrepreneur Beate Chelette discusses Bill Gates's private holdings and the sale of stock photo agency Corbis to Visual China Group.
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“Well, you know, Bill Gates has several businesses that he owns himself, and Corbis, that actually was just sold about six weeks ago to a Chinese company that was one of the businesses he owned himself outright.”
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