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Gates: Childhood trauma does not explain my energy or ambition
“But, you know, I'm not somebody who had a traumatic childhood that explains my, you know, whatever energy or ambition I have. I had a great childhood.”
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.”
Gates: Gates Foundation spends close to $1B annually in India
“If you take direct and indirect it'd be close to a billion a year.”
Gates: Gates Foundation spends $9B/year, led by health and agriculture
“Our foundation is about nine billion a year, and our health is our biggest. Agriculture is our second biggest.”
Gates: I work essentially full-time because it is fun
“I don't have to work. And so I choose to work. Yeah, because it's fun. You know, I take more vacation than I did when I was young, but it's still, you know, basically full, full-time work.”