Bill Gates
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Yeah, we have about 250 people who've made the commitment to give away the majority of their wealth. And we get together and learn from each other because philanthropy is actually a little confusing. You don't have a rating system or profit, and it brings you into a new area. And so we can inspire each other, and hopefully anybody who's got lots of money feels like pitching in.
Yeah, we have about 250 people who've made the commitment to give away the majority of their wealth. And we get together and learn from each other because philanthropy is actually a little confusing. You don't have a rating system or profit, and it brings you into a new area. And so we can inspire each other, and hopefully anybody who's got lots of money feels like pitching in.
Yeah, we have about 250 people who've made the commitment to give away the majority of their wealth. And we get together and learn from each other because philanthropy is actually a little confusing. You don't have a rating system or profit, and it brings you into a new area. And so we can inspire each other, and hopefully anybody who's got lots of money feels like pitching in.
Yeah, I was super lucky. You know, my parents found me a little confusing in terms of I was very good at some things and not good at other things. So they sent me to a private school, and that school got a computer. So when I was 13, I had my first exposure, and I got kind of obsessed with figuring it out, what it could do.
Yeah, I was super lucky. You know, my parents found me a little confusing in terms of I was very good at some things and not good at other things. So they sent me to a private school, and that school got a computer. So when I was 13, I had my first exposure, and I got kind of obsessed with figuring it out, what it could do.
Yeah, I was super lucky. You know, my parents found me a little confusing in terms of I was very good at some things and not good at other things. So they sent me to a private school, and that school got a computer. So when I was 13, I had my first exposure, and I got kind of obsessed with figuring it out, what it could do.
And so even during high school, together with a friend, Paul Allen, I got thousands of hours of time learning how to write software.
And so even during high school, together with a friend, Paul Allen, I got thousands of hours of time learning how to write software.
And so even during high school, together with a friend, Paul Allen, I got thousands of hours of time learning how to write software.
That's 1968. I'm up in Seattle, Washington at an excellent private school. And then Paul's reading and he sees that a computer's going to be done on a chip, the microprocessor made by people like Intel, and that those chips are going to get twice as good every year or two.
That's 1968. I'm up in Seattle, Washington at an excellent private school. And then Paul's reading and he sees that a computer's going to be done on a chip, the microprocessor made by people like Intel, and that those chips are going to get twice as good every year or two.
That's 1968. I'm up in Seattle, Washington at an excellent private school. And then Paul's reading and he sees that a computer's going to be done on a chip, the microprocessor made by people like Intel, and that those chips are going to get twice as good every year or two.
And so I say to Paul that that's exponential improvement, that then computers will be almost free and they'll need a lot of software. We should do that software. And he follows when I go back to Harvard because my parents wanted me to go to college. He follows me there to kind of bug me and say, well, this revolution is going to happen. Let's get going.
And so I say to Paul that that's exponential improvement, that then computers will be almost free and they'll need a lot of software. We should do that software. And he follows when I go back to Harvard because my parents wanted me to go to college. He follows me there to kind of bug me and say, well, this revolution is going to happen. Let's get going.