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Bill Gates Storms the White House! Here Are 3 Things to Know Today. Stay in the know in 60 seconds.

By Dan Bova

  1. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. Shopping intelligence company Catalina estimates that Guinness will have a 500 percent increase in sales this week, and Harp Lager's sales will jump over 900 percent!
  2. Bill Gates sat down with President Trump at the White House yesterday. The meeting was closed to the press, but foreign aid was a likely topic. In his 2018 annual letter, Gates wrote that U.S. aid overseas saves lives, creates jobs and makes Americans more secure.
  3. The NCAA is officially a billion-dollar-per-year organization, reporting $1.045 billion in total revenue for 2017. Over $800 million of that came from TV and marketing rights fees. In other financial news, how's your bracket holding up?
Related: Is Elon Musk Just Messing With Us?

Dan Bova

Entrepreneur Staff

VP of Special Projects

Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia Zone, Road & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little Book of Awesome Stuff, and Wendell the Werewolf. 

Read his humor column This Should Be Fun if you want to feel better about yourself.

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