Bill Gates

Co-Chair, Gates Foundation · 1 appearance 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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Nadella: Succeeding Gates and Ballmer required a full reset of Microsoft's culture

“I felt like, oh, I just can't be like, okay, here's the third guy who just shows up and does what Bill and Steve did. It needs a full reset. And I felt that the reset meant I needed to make both that sense of purpose, mission, and culture first class and my ow…”

Satya Nadella Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 15:18 Microsoft's Satya Nadella: Why we need re-founders | Masters of Scale

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Hoffman: Gates demanded GPT pass AP Biology to prove its utility

“We'd gotten the demand from him to say, man, challenge to say, hey, I'll believe you have general purpose, you know, and that's not AGI, but it's like a good general purpose functional technology. If without special training, you can pass the AP bio exam at a …”

Reid Hoffman Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 6:41 Reid Hoffman & Inflection AI CEO: Designing AI that makes us better humans (Sean White) | Summit '25

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Ben Teuber: Bill Gates was seen playing Catan: New Energies

“One of the most beautiful things that I saw was when I scrolled through my LinkedIn page and then I saw a Bill Gates playing it.”

Ben Teuber Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 25:07 Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders | Masters of Scale

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: Lead, lead again	Oct 6, 2017	37s

Bill Gates

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