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> He is the least terrible billionaire industrialist IMHO. I'd say Bill gates still retains that title.
by dingo_bat 10y ago
> He is the least terrible billionaire industrialist IMHO.
I'd say Bill gates still retains that title.
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoYou must be young.
- adwn 10y ago> You must be young. This is condescending and not constructive. You should know better than to post like this on HN.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoOnly if you ignore his time at Microsoft. Yes, he has done great things since he left. But he set the computer industry back decades with his predatory business tactics. A big part of the reason why we have so many walled gardens now is because he started the trend. And we're lucky we have multiple walled gardens. If he had succeeded a little longer we'd still only have one big one.
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- mncharity 10y agoIsn't Gates still heavily invested and active in Intellectual Ventures? And the Gates Foundation involved as well? My impression is Gates and Myhrvold are still a team, though like Microsoft itself, now focus their efforts on creating and monetizing intellectual property. So one became a humanitarian statesman? And the other became king of the patent trolls, the most feared man in the Valley? Or perhaps soon, humanitarian statesman and inquisitive chef? Image management is mazing.