Bill Gates hasn't been CEO of Microsoft for 20 years and was never CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Does the author understand the difference between CEO and board member?
... a return to nationalism and the American supremacy that dominated the second half of the 20th-century. This is wholly unacceptable to globalists around the world...
Say what? The second half of last century was the Golden Age for globalists.
...small satellites to zip around the globe in what is known as low-Earth orbit, or LEO. Their plan is to prosper by offering high-end data services to stock traders and others willing to pay richly to shave a few milliseconds off their transmission times.
Any trader looking to use satellites to shave time off of a transaction is going to go broke.
High frequency traders co-locate with the exchange data centers to gain milliseconds. They don't go relaying the data through space.
Gates was on the board of both and resigned from both in March 2020.
As for the rest, google Musk’s Space-X Satellite Internet Project called Starlink. Bezos has one called Project Kuiper. Branson’s is called OneWeb.
They’ve got money, nothing like throwing that at a problem to find a solution.