Bill Gates
7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2017 by Nolan Bushnell · said 99 times in 28 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 26 mentions in 1 episode
2023 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
2021 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2020 31 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Bill Gates, oldest first
Feb 27, 2017 positive
Bushnell claims Atari paved the way for young tech CEOs
“I was the youngest CEO, and people didn't know what to think about a CEO in their twenties. I mean, that was just off the radar. And I actually feel like I paved the way for Gates and Jobs and some of the idea that you can be young and still a serious business…”
Jan 29, 2018
Seeing Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Unmarried Motivated Michael Dell to Marry
“Yeah, and the reason I was motivated to do it because of them was because they were not married. And they were about 10 years older than I was, and having had the experience that I had as a child with my family, that's what I wanted. I wanted that family. I wa…”
Mar 26, 2018 positive
Jan 6, 2020 neutral
Michael Dell prioritized marriage after seeing unmarried contemporaries Jobs and Gates
“I did, a couple years later, You know, take a little time off and, you know, manage to find a fantastic partner and get married and, you know, have kids and all that, and that's been an amazing part of my life, and I was actually motivated to do this in part b…”
May 25, 2020
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent nearly an hour recruiting him to Microsoft
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”
Jun 14, 2021 positive
Barton pitched Bill Gates on a graphical online travel booking service
“I showed him Prodigy, and it was all a command line really ugly thing, but I talked about how I could see him doing a Kind of a Windows version of this and giving it to consumers could be a complete game changer for consumer empowerment. And he agreed, yeah.”
Dec 18, 2023
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent an hour personally trying to recruit me
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”