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Bill Gates

Co-Chair, Gates Foundation · 0 appearances on the record.

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Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and served as its longtime CEO, playing a key role in the personal computing revolution. Today, he focuses on global health, poverty alleviation, and climate solutions through the Gates Foundation and Breakthrough Energy.

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Everything Bill Gates said on BigDeal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

The other half of the tape: Bill Gates's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 25 times in 12 episodes on BigDeal. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 16Joe Lonsdale 3Sahil Bloom 2Morgan Housel 1Eric Jorgenson 1Daymond John 1David Senra 1

Statements about Bill Gates, by other people (3)

What-if
Jorgenson: Electric cars at scale would not exist without Elon Musk
“Social networks would have happened without Zuckerberg. Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey. Pick your thing. We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates. We would have computers without jobs. It's not clear that we would hav…”
Eric Jorgenson Jun 17, 2026 ▶ 15:51 How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sanchez: Gates used aggressive one-on-ones because work was never good enough
“He believed in doing these really aggressive one-on-ones with people that would make other employees cringe. And it was how he communicated. But he believed that it was never good enough In anything you could almost do, you could always do more. And so he actu…”
Codie Sanchez Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 2:09 Stop Being Nice: The C.L.E.A.R. Method for Earning Respect
Assertion Partly supported
Sanchez: Gates tracked employee weekend attendance by memorizing license plates
“They famously said he even used to drive around the parking lot and check and see if employees were in on the weekend by memorizing their license plates and then following up and having a one-on-one with them on Monday about why they weren't there.”
Codie Sanchez Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 2:31 Stop Being Nice: The C.L.E.A.R. Method for Earning Respect

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2026 16 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Bill Gates was played rather than Bill taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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The #1 Money Habit That Separates Winners from Losers | Caleb Hammer Jul 13, 2026 3s clip played
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