Bill Gates
24 statements across 5 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2023 by Nikhil Kamath · said 41 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Tanmay Bhat (20), Nikhil Kamath (7), Gaurav Munjal (5), Umang Bedi (3), Nuseir Yassin (2), Ruchir Sharma (1), Ray Dalio (1), Puneet Goyal (1)
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2025 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
- India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath
- People with The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi x Nikhil Kamath | Episode 6 | By WTF · Nikhil Kamath
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath
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2023 32 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
- Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
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Everything said about Bill Gates, oldest first
May 14, 2023 positive
Kamath: Humanity will abandon fossil fuels within 10 years
“Like, if you look at these guys, Bill Gates, like I was mentioning and all that, I think, five, 10 years from now, I don't think we'll be thinking how we're thinking right now. I don't think we'll be going to fossil for energy. 10 years from now, for sure.”
Jun 14, 2024 positive
Gates: If I were 25 in India, I'd build vertical AI apps
“I'd probably build, pick some AI thing, And just use the Google, Microsoft platforms and go on top of that and try and, because I'd be in touch with the customer so well and improving my data, keep ahead You know, and I'd say, okay, who's the most demanding cu…”
Jun 14, 2024 positive
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Bill Gates: AI models already exhibit superhuman reasoning across massive document sets
“These models already today, when you have lots of lots of documents, you know, more than a human could read in a lifetime, it is able to find things and reason across these documents in a superhuman way, and so when you think about a lawsuit or a drug filing, …”
Jun 14, 2024 neutral
Jul 27, 2024 neutral
Nikhil Kamath: Meeting idolized mentors in person demystifies the mentor-mentee dynamic
“When I met them in person and they became my friends and I had access to them like I have today. You start seeing that they're a bit like yourself as well. And you realize, okay, I saw this facet, which was exaggerated through that lens, but he has his own fla…”
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Gates: Mathematical ability is not the only proxy for talent and IQ
“Somebody who's a good salesperson or a good manager, you know, may not be good at the way I think of IQ. IQ is much more varied. Talent is more varied than I realized. You know, I sort of thought, well, if you can do math, you can do anything. And if you can't…”
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Gates: AI will render skills obsolete within a single generation
“I think it's a rate of change that's greater than most, most periods of history. You know, when we made in the US, you know, when we went from 50% farmers to two percent farmers, It, you could still farm your whole generation. It was your children that stopped…”
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Gates: Paul Allen was key to Microsoft but did not enjoy life
“Like my friend Paul Allen you know, he was wonderful, he was key to the success of Microsoft, but he actually didn't end up enjoying himself you know, he felt like maybe people were gonna take advantage of him, and that, that's, you know, this guy, Who had eve…”
Apr 11, 2025 bullish
Gates: In 20 years, AI and robotics will eliminate labor shortages
“The, let's say, 20 years from now, AI will have changed things enough that, you know, that just this pure capitalistic framework probably won't explain much because as AIs, both as sort of white-collar type work and as blue-collar workers, the robots will get …”
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Gates: Extreme intelligence often fails to produce family happiness
“The decisions you make about your personal life probably affect your happiness. You know, I know super successful people who aren't that happy and, you know, didn't apply their weren't able to map their incredible intelligence on to having a great relationship…”
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Gates: Microsoft lost the mobile OS race and Android won non-Apple phones
“We competed with Google over the mobile phone operating system, and we fell behind, and, you know, today, nobody remembers there was a Windows Mobile thing. It's just Android. For non-Apple phones, it's basically all Android.”
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Gates: Unlike the PC era, the AI revolution is widely anticipated
“The insight that computing would become free You know, for my generation, there were very few people who saw that. And so I, you know, I had an advantage because that implied a lot of things that, that Microsoft could get out and in front of. Now this current …”
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Gates: Being tough on yourself makes you a poor early manager
“And it makes you, at first, maybe not a very good manager, because you tend to manage people like you manage yourself, where you're just so tough on them, and, you know, for me, that meant that in my early days, I could get a lot out of people who were like me…”
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Gates: Steve Jobs succeeded at Apple because he was great at picking engineers
“He was not an engineer and I'm not a design person.
I wish I was a design person, and I don't know if he wished he was an engineer.
He was good at picking engineers, and so Apple you know, really distinguished itself, but it wasn't an act.
he was a natural.”
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Apr 11, 2025
Gates: Other Microsoft leaders did not believe company survival was at risk
“When we would go on company retreats from Microsoft, it would bother me that the other leaders didn't think our survival was at risk. I was always coming up with, no, we have to worry about this. We have to worry about this because it was my whole life.”
Sep 3, 2025
Sharma: People across income levels perpetually want to 2x their wealth
“Ajit Jain from Berkshire Hathaway, that no matter what your net worth is, you always want to be two X. Everyone thinks everyone across the income curve, unless you're Bill Gates, who apparently said that for me, everything is free. So that's different, right? …”