New book on Bill Gates - and it's not pretty

[Peregrine]

Never lionize famous people.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/business/bill-gates-tell-all-book-claims-microsoft-banned-young-interns-from-being-alone-with-flirty-mogul-before-divorce-kid-in-a-candy-store/

[dwy000]

 It looks like 200 pages of "nerdy billionaire awkwardly flirts with women".   I will read most things about Bill Gates but pretty sure I'll pass on this.

[gfp]

NYT has an article by Das out this morning about the Gates-Buffett relationship that I suppose is an excerpt from this book.  Reading it now but don't have a link to send.  I'm sure it is on the NYT website 

[UK]

5 minutes ago, gfp said:

NYT has an article by Das out this morning about the Gates-Buffett relationship that I suppose is an excerpt from this book.  Reading it now but don't have a link to send.  I'm sure it is on the NYT website 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/business/bill-gates-warren-buffett-friendship.html

[John Hjorth]

Here is a link to the book at Amazon for those who want to indulge [- personally, I've had enough dirt from here, there and everywhere about Mr. Gates by now] :

 

Amazon : Anupreeta Das - Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World Hardcover – August 13, 2024.

 

Reminds a bit of my experience of reading [trying to finish reading] 'Snowball' now many years ago, which I to this day have never finished, and likely never will.

 

Like @dwy000, I'll pass here.

[ValueArb]

On 8/3/2024 at 12:30 PM, Peregrine said:

Never lionize famous people.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/business/bill-gates-tell-all-book-claims-microsoft-banned-young-interns-from-being-alone-with-flirty-mogul-before-divorce-kid-in-a-candy-store/

 

Never lionize anyone if perfection is the only standard you'll apply.

 

Bill Gates should be lionized for his role in the development of the PC industry, not just Wintel but also his contributions to the Macintosh and CPM, for his massive philanthropy, and for saying a lot of smart things about technology.

 

But he's still human who just had different views on monogamy than his ex-wife did. That's one of the most trivial reasons possible to dislike someone, he broke a vow to her so she has the right to be angry. But we as outsiders don't know what else was going on in the relationship, nor do we know how she was treating him (having a wife track your every movement is a huge red flag indicative they should have divorced far earlier).

 

And as I get older and am now single I get a bit irked at the "creepy old man" assumption. I always try to date age ranges close to mine, but this weekend I had two much younger women express a lot more interest in me than required by their jobs. If I were to test the waters by asking them to dinner I'm a creep either way, if I got their signals wrong or if I didn't and we become a couple in public. I once had a widower friend who was 88 years old so I tried to set him up with a 45 year old, but he told me he didn't date anyone that old. Sounds creepy but he was hugely popular with the ladies. We once went out on a group date, he, my wife, and four casino waitresses in their early 30s vying to be his lead girlfriend. RIP Mel, you were a legend.

[Peregrine]

21 hours ago, ValueArb said:

 

Never lionize anyone if perfection is the only standard you'll apply.

 

Bill Gates should be lionized for his role in the development of the PC industry, not just Wintel but also his contributions to the Macintosh and CPM, for his massive philanthropy, and for saying a lot of smart things about technology.

 

But he's still human who just had different views on monogamy than his ex-wife did. That's one of the most trivial reasons possible to dislike someone, he broke a vow to her so she has the right to be angry. But we as outsiders don't know what else was going on in the relationship, nor do we know how she was treating him (having a wife track your every movement is a huge red flag indicative they should have divorced far earlier).

 

And as I get older and am now single I get a bit irked at the "creepy old man" assumption. I always try to date age ranges close to mine, but this weekend I had two much younger women express a lot more interest in me than required by their jobs. If I were to test the waters by asking them to dinner I'm a creep either way, if I got their signals wrong or if I didn't and we become a couple in public. I once had a widower friend who was 88 years old so I tried to set him up with a 45 year old, but he told me he didn't date anyone that old. Sounds creepy but he was hugely popular with the ladies. We once went out on a group date, he, my wife, and four casino waitresses in their early 30s vying to be his lead girlfriend. RIP Mel, you were a legend.

 

"Perfect" isn't the standard. How about "decent human being?" I'm not talking about him cheating on his wife. The stuff about him and Epstein is becoming more apparent over time.

[ValueArb]

10 minutes ago, Peregrine said:

 

"Perfect" isn't the standard. How about "decent human being?" I'm not talking about him cheating on his wife. The stuff about him and Epstein is becoming more apparent over time.

 

Yea, its clear Epstein tried to use Gates to get Epsteins' own philanthropic foundation funded to help rehabilitate his image, while Gates thought Epstein had pull with the Nobel Prize committee to get Bill his own Nobel Prize.

 

Nothing else has "become apparent" over time.

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On 8/6/2024 at 3:51 PM, ValueArb said:

And as I get older and am now single I get a bit irked at the "creepy old man" assumption. I always try to date age ranges close to mine, but this weekend I had two much younger women express a lot more interest in me than required by their jobs. If I were to test the waters by asking them to dinner I'm a creep either way, if I got their signals wrong or if I didn't and we become a couple in public. I once had a widower friend who was 88 years old so I tried to set him up with a 45 year old, but he told me he didn't date anyone that old. Sounds creepy but he was hugely popular with the ladies. We once went out on a group date, he, my wife, and four casino waitresses in their early 30s vying to be his lead girlfriend. RIP Mel, you were a legend.

@ValueArb

We should all be like Leonard DiCarpio and only dated 25 year old women in their prime.

[Libs]

[schin]

4 hours ago, Libs said:

 

Very data driven. Thank you.

 

We should have a graphic of super small cap investors and when they trade out of their stocks.