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  1. “I pick them and I'm spending time with them because I see that they have incredible potential. So I should never confuse them about that. You know, if you get to that point, fine. Spend time with someone else. So management and leadership, the way you do it to yourself versus others, it took me certainly into my 30s before I understood how utterly different those two things were.”

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  2. “I think most people who are driven are very tough on themselves. Like, you know, if you're thinking is sloppy or if you didn't work hard enough, and it's very hard not to take whatever that standard is that you're driving yourself with and overapply that to other people. Like if they say something that's kind of sloppy, okay, if you said that, you'd say to yourself, I'm an idiot today. Over time, really thinking twice about, okay, on balance, I want to challenge this person, but also.”

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  3. “Stay curious, you know, get involved in things that can surprise people on the positive side, hopefully with a value-based goal of reducing inequity.”

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  4. “Know, I benefited by being a student and never giving that up, you know, a sense of curiosity. I find the world really fascinating. I'd encourage other people, you know, maybe different subject areas than the ones like math that drew me in. But that's worked super well for me. you know today i'll sit with research scientists on a couple of topics uh and they'll tell me about their latest work and i'll think okay can i help facilitate that and uh how does that that go forward”

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  5. “And large, out of that. The government made some commitments, which I think are great, to try and have nuclear be a complement to the renewables, which makes it more feasible to get completely green. So climate, there's incredible innovation going on, which I have a group breakthrough energy that funds a lot of that. And what I'm seeing makes me very hopeful that we'll stay not too far above two degrees and that the right adaptations can mean the overall impact is not super disastrous.”

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  6. “We will get there. There's no stopping us passing two degrees. In temperate zone countries, in terms of your overall economy or livelihoods, it's actually not a gigantic thing. Yes, you have to pay to make various changes. You have to have air conditioning more like the US does in kind of this pervasive way. The really bad stuff is if you let it go, say, above three degrees or if you live near the equator and you're dependent for your food on your yearly harvest, you have no savings. And so the fact that the weather is going to make things tougher, you know, that really is quite dramatic. And so take, for example, the UK, emissions per person are down very dramatically. You started the coal thing. Now you're”

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  7. “Well, there's a great book, the Hannah Ritchie Not the End of the World book, you know, which some people will find controversial. And it's a very important corrective to remind people, A, we are making progress. And B, the world does not end at two degrees. Particularly in the end.”

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  8. “I never got into this super long meditation where you do like an hour or go off for three days or things. I did, and it comes and goes have a practice of taking 15 minutes in the morning with things like headspace and found that valuable. But I have to admit, you know, I'll get busy and I can go six months and then, you know, go back to it. It's a little bit like my physical therapy.”

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  9. “I'm good friends with Reed. And I do thinking about how you relate to people, there's David Brooks book that just came out called How to Know a Person, which is pretty fantastic. You know, got me thinking a lot about, okay, as I'm listening to people, is it clear to them that, okay, in what situations am I an illuminator, which is a positive term where people feel seen and energized by how you're engaged with them and how many people do I have the energy to really stay up to date with them? And am I, you know, have I really picked that and do that well? So during these last 20 years or whatever, I'm a good friend. So I read, I love the fact that even us nerdy guys are thinking about our humanity and trying to do better.”

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  10. “And I have people who track it, and we often think which of these things should you respond to? If they get broad enough, then you want to respond. If they're just in the truly crazy niche, then probably you don't want to amplify it.”

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  11. “What's gone down somewhat with the end of the pandemic? There were a few malaria cases that showed up in the US, and people were saying, okay, that's me doing that. Or, you know, I own one four-thousandth of the farmland in the US and people have some view that somehow makes that. Yeah, one four thousandth of the farmland. But what can you do with one four thousandth share? At least in my math, you have a hard time pulling off a conspiracy unless you get up to at least two or three, four thousandths.”

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  12. “Yeah, no, I never had anything like that. I mean, as had a Microsoft people love you, people hate you. You made it hard for other software companies to charge lots of money. And so there were certainly extreme viewpoints, but completely making up, you know, like saying that I profit from vaccines or that vaccines instead of saving millions of lives actually are bad for children, that's a total reversal. And the fact that people needed a simple explanation during the pandemic.”

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  13. “I'm in my overall situation, I have nothing to complain about Know somebody coming up to me on the street with a SAPL sometimes and saying that I've chipped them and I'm following them around as long as I'm safe you almost have to laugh that you know lady why would I want to know where you are I mean really is that how I spend my time is tracking you”

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  14. “I'd gotten to know in both Brown and Blair pretty well. I'll actually see Tony Blair today. Our foundation works with him in terms of helping African governments have more capacity. And I always value talking to him, learning from him. I have to say Cameron coming in and saying that he was going to push the aid level up the first time I met with him. It's like, really? Wow. That is quite incredible. You know, so they're leaders who take these issues that don't have a gigantic constituency, but the moral impact of his is phenomenal and choose to prioritize those.”

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  15. “The point, the cut to point five is tough, and then you have these multi-year commitments. Many of the multilateral things I would stick up for, Gavi, Global Fund, even the World Bank IDA, which most people don't understand, is a key source of finance, particularly as things are financially difficult for African countries right now. I mean, very, very difficult.”

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  16. “Yeah, and those, you know, you're not allowed to count that after they've been here for several years. So hopefully doing a good job getting them into employment so they're not a huge drain. But yeah, we've had that as a diversion in many countries. And that's why if you look at the African number, it's gone down quite a bit.”

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  17. “No, you're not at the peak, but you're still... The point five well spent still makes a massive difference. And so, for example, maintaining your commitment to Gavi, where the UK has been the biggest funder of Gavi, the Gates Foundation, the second, that'll show that you still believe in this stuff. You know, someday it'd be nice for the country to get back to point seven, but...”

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  18. “People who believe in helping other countries, I mean, We had the period in the UK where you had Blair and Brown and Cameron and the aid budget went all the way up to 0.7%. And that was miraculous. And that money was well spent. I mean, that's the Global Alliance for Vaccines, which this year will go into replenishment.”

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  19. “He steps back and he's thoughtful about how business works. He thinks a lot about people. You know, he shares his thoughts in his annual letter. He's a student of human nature and his understanding of the world has led to sort of an unbelievable level of success in terms of all the different companies that he's either owned part of or owned all of.”

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  20. “Well, the business leader I probably learned the most from is Warren Buffett, and he's not in the tech industry, but he's incredibly thoughtful. I got to know him a long time ago. I'm still learning from him.”

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  21. “You know, Russia's the one who's attacked a neighboring country and hopefully the most countries want to see this stuff be shaped appropriately.”

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  22. “Well, but the key thing is that the good guys have better AIs than the bad guys. The issue is not the AIs getting out of control. It's AIs by people with ill intent being more powerful. So just take cyber defense. If the good guy's cyber defense AI is as good or better than the bad guy cyber attack AI, then that's a good situation. And you're not going to stop development of AI globally. Somebody can argue that maybe you should try and do that and create a world army to go around and invade computer labs, but not many people are pushing on that. And so you're going to have these increasingly powerful AIs that hopefully the good guys stay ahead on.”

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  23. “Et cetera, RD money is huge. And so how you get the collaboration with these state-of-the-art things where government is thinking about it, it's harder than in the past.”

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  24. “Well, the hardest thing is that since World War II, most technologies that had to do with weaponry, the US and its allies were ahead. And that was even kind of a nice industrial bootstrap that low volume technologies were used by the military and then eventually would come down in cost and be applicable to a broad industrial or consumer market. Today AI the government market for it is not large enough to really shape anything. The big market is business and consumers. And so, you know, governments have a challenge that they aren't the early people who funded it. Actually, if you go way back 20 or 30 years ago, it was government research money. But now it's the Google, Microsoft.”

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  25. “Well, whenever you have innovations, they're kind of neutral in a way, and they can end up empowering just the rich. They can end up, you know, having unexpected negative side effects. With AI, we can already say that bad people can use this as a tool for cyber attack or designing weapons of bioterrorism. So, you know, we have to shape this so that the good things like tutors for kids who need to learn better medical advice. We need to shape this and have great AIs that are doing cyber defense. So making sure it's used well will be important. So yeah, I share all the concerns, but I also see the positives as being incredibly large.”

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  26. “Well, hopefully 20. I've taken on some big challenges. I mean, the work in global health and agriculture, we have some very ambitious goals, including malaria eradication, shaping AI so that it helps the poorest both in rich countries and in developing countries. And it's a gigantic force for equity. That's a huge opportunity, a huge challenge. You know, I love my work. The people I get to work with, the potential for progress. So yeah, I hope I get 20 more years. That would be fantastic.”

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  27. “People pay attention to you because of your parents rather than yourself. You know, that can be kind of artificial if they disagree with your parents. They might be disagreeable towards you. You know, on balance, it's probably not positive, but it's not without its challenges.”

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  28. “Well, the advantage is that you're not worried about money. You go to great schools, you can develop your skills in any direction you want without worrying about your income. You can meet interesting people. As you grow up, you got to go to Africa a lot and see the world.”

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  29. “You know, it's pretty special to have a granddaughter she'll turn one next month. You know, she gets me turn three. I can take her on trips and do more things. And it makes you think about the future, that granddaughter will be around in 2100. you know, things we do now will influence what that world will be like. So, you know, it makes you step back. It's all part of the aging process where you're being more wise and empowering other people.”

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  30. “You know, I give Melinda immense credit for being super committed to the foundation. And the foundation benefits immensely from her skill set. A lot of the people issues, women issues. She's been part of making the strategy since we created it together. So I'm very glad that she's chosen to stay involved. We work well together.”

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  31. “Malaria kills a happening children every year, and I don't care if you write them a check, that's not a good thing. The majority of kids in Africa never develop their brain or their body because of malnutrition problems. And weirdly, research on that was not being funded. The direct giving thing is interesting, but if I gave all the money that we spend each year, it'd be like a dollar fifty a year and nobody would work. Now, you know, I embrace all philanthropy, particularly philanthropy that's helping the poorest. We need Lots and lots of philanthropists, you know, everybody who's wealthy should be engaged in helping the poorest. And through the giving pledge, I've tried to encourage that. But there are some areas that I can't cover. Health is one where we go after all of these diseases of inequity.”

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  32. “That's been my approach. And we've had good successes with Republicans and Democrats, but this is the strongest contrast in terms of caring about our issues. And the first Trump administration, they proposed phasing out the HIV medicine, and the Congress resisted that. But I think this next time around that it might not go that way.”

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  33. “HID medicines, that's George Bush thing. We celebrated with George the 20th year of that. 2003 that he got that put in place. So, you know, for the issues I care about, which are helping other countries and participating globally to improve welfare and maintain peace, it's an election that will have consequences.”

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  34. “I've always worked with whatever administration is in power. I worked well with Democratic presidents and Republic presidents. But we have quite a contrast in terms of being willing to help other countries, for example, foreign aid, even programs that were created by Republicans like the PEPFAR, which is the six billion a year of...”

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  35. “It's pretty a little scary because we have populism, which you'd expect, but it's come in a form where the ability to accept election results is really up in the air. And some of the norms about what the government does and how it works. So yeah, it's a big election that'll take place in November.”

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  36. “Yes, the Gates Foundation has a lot of expertise in nutrition and kids being healthy and the next steps on happening kids a year die from malaria, which is a tragedy. And even the kids who survive don't develop physically and mentally the way they should. And so we should be moving at full speed to change that”

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  37. “I do a lot of my travel in Africa where the majority of our work is. And my opportunity when I see ahead of state is so precious to tell him, hey, here's where you're not vaccinating your kids. Here's the number of kids who are dying because your primary health care system isn't working well. Here's where we think you could make this a lot better. Here's where your farmers don't have the right inputs. And so they have periods of food shortages. So yeah, I try to use those opportunities to get people who weirdly don't focus as much on health type things as they probably ought to.”

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  38. “Together, you know, I'm drawing on all of that. Now, I've also had to bring in people who understand drugs and drug trials and had to learn a bit of that myself. But the intensity is the same and the importance I'd say is even greater than anything I did at Microsoft.”

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  39. “Varian Satya does a great job of engaging me on the issues that the company has right now. And I'm very close to the team at OpenAI as well. And I wouldn't really differentiate my foundation work from business. The Gates Foundation is a set of experts. The only thing that's unusual about it is that we're maximizing improving poor people's condition instead of maximizing profit. You know, so we have teams that are every bit as smart as any group I ever had at Microsoft, but the discussion is, you know, polio's evil. How do we get rid of it? Malaria is evil. How do we get rid of it? And every skill I developed at Microsoft, working in Japan, working in China, assembling different skill sets.”

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  40. “Have three activities by far the biggest is my work at the Gates Foundation and the other tour, my Breakthrough Energy Climate Work, and then my ongoing advisor status with Microsoft and all this new AI work.”

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  41. “Well, Microsoft had the idea of building a software factory that is building tools, hiring the smartest people, and being able to do every kind of software faster than anyone else. And so we went into a lot of different software categories, operating systems or processing spreadsheet, database. You name it. And our view is always to lower the prices by at least a factor of five of any category that we got into. And so we were a daunting competitor. We gained market share. In word processing, there were things like WordStar, WordPerfect. There were database things, but we outran them. We underpriced them. So we were trying to get software, as we said, into every home and every desk. And you couldn't do that with a high price strategy. Only by constantly getting those prices down could get.”

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  42. “No, because there were no other software companies. So we decided software would be important. And we were the first and we created, we had this notion of high volume, low-cost software that simply didn't exist. You know, that's a quote from somebody who made money by suing Microsoft.”

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  43. “The world is very complex, and if you're having a discussion, say, about your malaria eradication strategy, You want to agree on what you agree on and find where you don't agree and bring new facts to the table. So it very much depends on the setting. But for the team of people I build to solve hard problems, whether it's at Microsoft or my Breakthrough Energy Climate Group or the Gates Foundation, we have high bandwidth conversations. somebody's saying something that we all know, then we can move pretty quickly on and talk about, okay, which we've got limited resources, which of these approaches make the most sense. So, yeah, I enjoy listening to people, learning from people. And I, you know, I'm super lucky, whether it's inside the foundation or outside experts, you know, I get to talk to amazing people from all over the world.”

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  44. “You could say adults who brought experience and improving skills, but the strategy of what we were doing was always driven by my vision of software.”

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  45. “Why I always sort of naively thought that intelligence was quite fungible and so that if you're good at writing code, then you should be good at doing sales, you should be good at management and all those things. In my Microsoft career, I learned again and again that there were a lot of people who are very talented in the engineering side who were terrible managers. And that always stunned me a little bit about why can't they just go read the books on management and pay attention to what they say in the early company, I said you should always work for somebody who's smarter than you. That didn't last for very long. And so, you know, the idea of different mixes of skills and, you know, what was I good at? Where could I extend my capabilities? I did hire in people with a lot of different expertise.”

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  46. “Maybe a few hundred. I mean, I was lucky that I like mathematics and so the power of doubling every two years was pretty clear. I'd used computers by then very intensely for three years. My last year of high school actually went and worked writing software and instead of going to school because I'd already finished my classes. And I was involved with a lot of really taught programmers who were fascinated that I was pretty good and strove to help me be an even better programmer. So day and night they look at my code and give me a hard time. So I was very immersed in the magic of computers. But this microprocessor thing was going to change the very nature of how computing was used. And my friend Paul Allen and I were just focused completely on How do we get involved?”

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  47. “I did the microprocessor that is a computer on a chip, being a revolution, with something that Paul Allen showed me the article on that back when I was in 10th grade, two years before finishing high school. And Gordon Moore said it would be exponentially improving. And we thought, God, this is a miracle. How come everybody's not just constantly in a state of shock? And this is going to change the world and make computing something that's about individual productivity.”

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  48. “My parents were amazing. My dad was a lawyer, reasonably successful. My mom was very active in the community and eventually on various boards, so also quite sophisticated. They shared the things they were working on. They sent me to an incredible private school that happened to get a computer when I was 13, a time-sharing terminal, actually. an incredible childhood. I had great teachers. I got to buy as many books as I wanted to. And then I went off and I was at Harvard University for a couple of years before I dropped out to start Microsoft.”

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  49. “The progress in Asia has been phenomenal and the progress in Africa is disappointing. And Africa is heading into a period where Their indebtedness and interest costs and literally a reduction in aid flowing to the continent because overall aid is not up, it's basically flat. And what there is is being diverted to other causes, including the wars and some of the climate issues that are less focused on African poverty. Africa's a huge challenge, and yet we do have new vaccines coming along. We have better seeds, better livestock. Africa will be better off 10 years from now than it is today.”

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  50. “Are surviving. More kids are getting nutrition. It's still kids are 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than in rich countries. So the inequity there is pretty dramatic. But if you see things going backwards, that must be confusing because”

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