Bill Gates

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2018 by Josh Wolfe · said 62 times in 25 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Everything said about Bill Gates, oldest first

Aug 20, 2018
Assertion Contradicted
Thomas Reardon single-handedly coded Internet Explorer and was Bill Gates's right-hand
“While he's at Microsoft, he single-handedly codes Internet Explorer, which we've all used, and he's also Bill's right-hand guy during the entire DOJ Monopoly trial.”
Josh Wolfe Aug 20, 2018 ▶ 31:01 Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
Sep 7, 2020 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Morgan Housel notes Bill Gates attended America's only computer-equipped high school
“Bill Gates went to the only high school in America that had a computer, and the computer that they had was more advanced than most of the computer programs had at the top universities.”
Morgan Housel Sep 7, 2020 ▶ 28:15 Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
Jan 11, 2021 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Dixon: Bill Gates's 1995 book 'The Road Ahead' omitted 'World Wide Web'
“The original version of Bill Gates's Road Ahead came out in 1995. It was talking about the future of computing and the word worldwide web did not occur in that book.”
Chris Dixon Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 30:56 Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Sacca: Lowercarbon's Swedish electric airplane startup has billions in orders
“We have an electric airplane company in Sweden that even Bill Gates said was going to be impossible. It's a 35 seat plane that's got billions of dollars of cash on the barrel orders. And the majors have invested in the company because it's just cheaper to oper…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 1:03:42 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Housel: Outlier Founders Like Musk and Bezos Are Tortured, Not Ambitious
“Patrick said the phrase that he would use to describe their personality is not driven by It's not ambitious. It's tortured. They wake up every morning tortured that they are not more successful, bigger, richer than they are. And I think that's true for virtual…”
Morgan Housel Jan 1, 2024 ▶ 44:25 Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
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