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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bill Gates comes up
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 0:38 Ted Seides In addition to his long and stellar career in the credit markets, Joel spearheaded the launch of Promote Giving, a philanthropic initiative similar to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge designed for alternative asset managers.
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 36:05 Matt Miller Bill Gates doesn't need to make a return.
- ▶ 46:15 Matt Miller Bill Gates talks about a green premium.
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 1:14:35 Michael Milken One of the great politicians of the 20th and early 21st century, Willie Brown, told me, unless you've defined who you are early, it's too late if some event occurs, and I think, had we been more public, had I gone on television more, or…
George Michelakis – Chess Master's Approach to Long-Short Equity at Gladstone (EP.362)
- ▶ 32:11 George Mikulakis It took Microsoft three goes to replace Bill Gates.
Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
- ▶ 44:45 Morgan Housel And I think that's true for virtually all these people, Musk, Bezos, Gates, all these people, I think woke up tortured every single morning.
Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- ▶ 18:20 Nicolai Tangen And so we've talked to the biggest bank CEOs, the biggest tech CEOs, Sam Altman, Bill Gates, all these kind of things.
- ▶ 49:05 Nicolai Tangen What an honor to be able to have a whole hour with some of these people, to spend an hour with Bill Gates or Jensen Huang or Sam Altman or James Gorman or you name it, that you get a whole hour with some of the most important people in the…
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 58:47 Allison Thacker I'm sure I should be more like Bill Gates and just read nonfiction all the time, but at the end of the day, it's very relaxing to take a break from your brain and go off into this other world that someone else has written about or lived,…
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 1:03:42 Chris Sacca We have an electric airplane company in Sweden that even Bill Gates said was going to be impossible.
Tom Joy – Divine Diversification and Responsibility at Church Commissioners (Capital Allocators, EP.306)
- ▶ 5:05 Ted Seides On Wednesday, have a listen to the story of the Yellowstone Club, an exclusive, private, members-only ski and golf community located in Big Sky, Montana, whose members reportedly include Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake, Eric Schmidt, and Tom…
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 13:13 Anthony Scaramucci Bill Gates said it was a fad in the mid nineties.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 26:42 Josh Wolfe He's got a molecular bio background, Princeton, Goldman Sachs, went to work for Chris Hone, ran the foundation there, then went to, again, was recruited by Bill, there for a decade.
- ▶ 39:06 Josh Wolfe You know, Bill Gates existed, but the PC didn't for him to develop an operating system.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 10:02 Fabrice Grinda Reading and studying about it, I started following the lives of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and in a way they became the role models. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:49 Fabrice Grinda Probably Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, because they were the people I looked up to as role models when I was 10 years old and onwards that ultimately led me down the entrepreneurial journey.
Eli Casdin – Casdin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.02)
- ▶ 41:30 Eli Casdin I would think that if I had been old enough, and I was, you know, kind of a, uh, computer-y kid when I was growing up, if I'd gone to those software fairs in the late seventies, you might not have figured out Lotus or these other things,…
Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195)
- ▶ 54:36 Dan Ariely Okay, so before we started, I told you that I have been recently attacked by some people as the one, me and Bill Gates bring corona to the world.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 30:56 Chris Dixon The original version of Bill Gates's Road Ahead came out in 1995.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 28:13 Morgan Housel So I tell a story about Bill Gates, two sides. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 Ted Seides Well, one of the things you talk about, and you can go back to the Bill Gates example, people think of Warren Buffett this way, is this notion that the tails more than sort of a steady state compounding are really what drives returns.
Sustainable Investing 9: Reuben Munger – Private Capital Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.147)
- ▶ 11:19 Reuben Munger And I would credit Bill Gates and the Breakthrough Institute and Breakthrough Energy, his 3 times in the scene
Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- ▶ 57:18 Larry Siegel So, Edison and Westinghouse and Ford, Rockefeller, Bill Gates.
Michael Mauboussin – Who's on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)
- ▶ 22:00 Michael Mauboussin Bill Gates, when he was CEO of Microsoft, used to carry around a list of priorities for the organization. 6 times in the scene
Thomas Russo – All About Berkshire Hathaway (Capital Allocators, EP.89)
Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- ▶ 57:09 Michael Schwimer I'm gonna go with Bill Gates, and the reason isn't the Microsoft stuff, it's, it's what he's decided to do with his wealth, and you're on this earth, I want to make a ton of money and then use it to help as many people as I possibly can,… 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 31:01 Josh Wolfe Uh, never goes to college, gets tapped by Bill Gates, and he becomes Bill's right-hand guy for the next 1011 years, and while he's at Microsoft, he single-handedly codes Internet Explorer, which we've all used, and he's also Bill's… 3 times in the scene
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 53:55 Roz Hewsenian So I'm very proud of the fact that I one-upped Bill Gates.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 52:54 Michael Cembalest He's Bill Gates' favorite author, and he's kind of a recluse.
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 1:01:54 Andy Redleaf You know, Bill Gates, you know, every year has five or 10 books that he recommends.