Founders and CEOs on Reddit

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft

How we know it's theirs

His 2018 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 6 posts and 20 comments from u/thisisbillgates, dated 2016 to 2022, most often in r/IAmA, r/AskReddit and r/Coronavirus.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.”

Do you miss anything about your time at Microsoft?

u/thisisbillgates replied

There was a certain urgency to everything we were doing to stay ahead that meant the speed of activity was very high. I miss this a bit. I had to take Think Weeks twice a year just to step back…

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There was a certain urgency to everything we were doing to stay ahead that meant the speed of activity was very high. I miss this a bit. I had to take Think Weeks twice a year just to step back and see what the longer term trends were. Now I work on things like malaria where I wish there was more competition to solve the problems and things moved faster.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.”

If you could give 19 year old Bill Gates some advice, what would it be?

u/thisisbillgates replied

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I would explain that smartness is not single dimensional and not quite as important as I thought it was back then. I would say you might explore the developing world before you get into your forties. I wasn't very good socially back then but I am not sure there is advice that would fix that - maybe I had to be awkward and just grow up....

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.”

Hi Mr. Gates! Do you ever like, just randomly get up when you're home and make yourself a peanut butter sandwich? Or do you have people do that for you?

u/thisisbillgates replied

I do make myself tomato soup sometimes. It is kind of a comforting food and reminds me of doing the same when I was growing up. I don't make sandwiches much.