Bill Gross
American businessman (born 1958)
William T. Gross (born 1958) is an American businessman and native of Southern California.2
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Born 1958.1
Companies
- Energy VaultFounder11
- Energy VaultBoard member Feb 15, 2022 to Jun 20, 202412
- Heliogen, Inc.Board member Jan 4, 2022 to Apr 14, 202313
- Heliogen, Inc.Chief executive officer Jan 4, 2022 to Nov 22, 202213
Holdings
Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.
Shares held
Energy Vault NRGV254,740 shares14$709.5K at $2.79Jun 20, 2024- Heliogen, Inc.462 shares15Feb 20, 2024
As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.
Recent filings
- May 24, 2024Granted 68,989 shares of Energy Vault16
- Mar 13, 2024Other 130,000 shares at $1.65 of Energy Vault17
- Feb 15, 2024Sold 442,298 shares at $1.52 of Heliogen, Inc.15
- Dec 18, 2023Gift 100,000 shares of Energy Vault18
- Jun 22, 2023Sold 730,311 shares at $0.23 of Heliogen, Inc.19
- Jun 22, 2023Exercised options 858,465 shares at $0.18 of Heliogen, Inc.19
- Jun 15, 2023Exercised options 1,763,000 shares at $0.18 of Heliogen, Inc.20
- Jun 9, 2023Sold 474,513 shares at $0.23 of Heliogen, Inc.21
- Jun 9, 2023Exercised options 474,513 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.21
- Jun 8, 2023Sold 204,255 shares at $0.22 of Heliogen, Inc.22
- Jun 8, 2023Exercised options 204,255 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.22
- Jun 7, 2023Sold 1,559,530 shares at $0.25 of Heliogen, Inc.22
- Jun 7, 2023Exercised options 1,559,530 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.22
- Jun 6, 2023Sold 210,239 shares at $0.24 of Heliogen, Inc.23
- Jun 6, 2023Exercised options 210,239 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.23
- Jun 5, 2023Sold 91,463 shares at $0.25 of Heliogen, Inc.23
- Jun 5, 2023Exercised options 91,463 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.23
- Jun 2, 2023Sold 4 shares at $0.26 of Heliogen, Inc.24
- Jun 2, 2023Exercised options 3,587 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.24
- Jun 1, 2023Sold 25,412 shares at $0.26 of Heliogen, Inc.24
- Jun 1, 2023Exercised options 25,412 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.24
- May 30, 2023Sold 300 shares at $0.26 of Heliogen, Inc.25
- May 30, 2023Exercised options 300 shares at $0.09 of Heliogen, Inc.25
- May 25, 2023Sold 335,653 shares at $0.26 of Heliogen, Inc.26
- May 25, 2023Granted 42,480 shares of Energy Vault27
Early life and education
- Date not recordedCalifornia Institute of Technology3
Gross grew up in Encino, California and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.6
- Date not recordedFounded Idealab4
- Date not recordedFounded Energy Vault5
He founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment manufacturer; Starship Video, a video arcade, GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Development Corporation; Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired by Cendant; and the business incubator Idealab in March, 1996, of which he serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.
Gross serves on the boards of numerous companies. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design.
One company founded by Gross, GoTo.com, Inc., provided an Internet search engine which relied upon sponsored search results and pay-per-click advertisements. GoTo.com was later renamed Overture Services Inc. and was then acquired by Yahoo! to provide their Yahoo! Search Marketing products. That is why Bill Gross is widely credited with inventing the modern pay-per-click (PPC) business model for the Internet.
In 2010, Gross founded and launched TweetUp, a search engine for Twitter that promotes the best tweeters on any topic. TweetUp was renamed to "PostUp" to reflect its inclusion of Facebook and LinkedIn status updates.
On January 24, 2011, PostUp acquired popular Twitter client app UberTwitter—after previously purchasing Echofon (for iPhone/iOS) and Twidroyd (for Android OS)—and renamed itself UberMedia.
Bill Gross' Idealab has created more than 200 startup companies and roughly 10+ unicorns (companies with valuations $1B+) depending on definition and timing.
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Solar energy
A Gross company, Energy Innovations, is working on development of a rooftop concentrated photovoltaic solar collector for flat-roofed commercial buildings. They completed the world's largest corporate solar installation at Google's headquarters in 2006.
During 2010, Gross was the CEO of eSolar, a company that aims to make renewable energy cost-competitive with fossil fuel energy using CSP technology. eSolar builds an individual 46 MW power unit on 200 acres and can scale up to 500 MW or larger capacity with multiple units.
Gross also founded Heliogen, a clean energy company backed by Bill Gates. The company has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius. Heliogen went public in 2021 through a merger with Athena SPACs. Bill Gross resigned as CEO in 2023 and in April 2023 made a tender offer to buy the company.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bill Gross (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Personal life
Gross's wife Marcia Goodstein is the daughter of David Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein. They have five children.
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataBill Gross on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaBill Gross on Wikipedia
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- 9WikidataBill Gross: X, on Wikidata
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- 11WikidataEnergy Vault, Founder
- 12SEC EDGAREnergy Vault, Board member
- 13SEC EDGARHeliogen, Inc., Board member
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- 16SEC EDGARForm 4 filed May 29, 2024
- 17SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Mar 15, 2024
- 18SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Dec 20, 2023
- 19SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 23, 2023
- 20SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 16, 2023
- 21SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 13, 2023
- 22SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 9, 2023
- 23SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 7, 2023
- 24SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 5, 2023
- 25SEC EDGARForm 4 filed Jun 1, 2023
- 26SEC EDGARForm 4 filed May 30, 2023
- 27SEC EDGARForm 4 filed May 30, 2023
- 28Wikimedia CommonsBill Gross photo by Loic Le Meur, CC BY 2.0