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Gates seems pretty normal to me.

by andi999 5y ago

UncleOxidant 5y ago
He's gone out of his way to cultivate that image.
- rglover 5y ago
  You mean the well-timed documentary humanizing him as a caring genius just before all this started was intentional?! Nah...
- chaostheory 5y ago
  Even before the Epstein scandal, there were hints of it old personality like when he claimed in Steve Job's biography that Next OS had no role or association with the creation of OSX (now Mac OS); hinting that Jobs was hired back on the board's whim.
- SmellTheGlove 5y ago
  There was a couple year span on Reddit where you'd see a couple of really positive Bill Gates posts each day. At a glance it seemed organic, but people were always in the comments suggesting it was great PR. Seems like they were probably right.
- peakaboo 5y ago
  The Netflix documentary about Bill Gates... Watch that. It's a very fine piece of propaganda and what makes it work. Excellent study material if you are interested in what makes people believe something.
tluyben2 5y ago
Read some early MS company stories.
- krick 5y ago
  Gladly. Perhaps you could link some of them?
  - tluyben2 5y ago
    Google shows enough I guess but things like [0] and [1] but there are quite a few books describing it all in more detail and he has talked about it himself [2] (not only here). [0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/gates-ruthless-schemer-says-his-microsoft-co-founder-2257843.html%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/peop... [1] https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2021/01/leadership-styles-and-do-they-work-bill-gatess-flame-mails/ https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2021/01/leadership-styles-a... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-microsoft-culture-self-selected-males-went-too-far-2019-7%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/bill-ga...
rebelos 5y ago
Gates was a ruthless tyrant in his Microsoft days. He worked very hard to rehab his image after leaving. Work that might be completely undone if the nature of his alleged involvement with Epstein and the reprehensible things that may have entailed ever surface. He appears to have lost his wife because of the cloud of suspicion there.
- tekproxy 5y ago
  Ruthless brilliant maniacal tyrant. For more context, there's this famous story: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
  - andi999 5y ago
    Interesting read. What part seems problematic to you?
socialist_pig 5y ago
Check out the recent Epstein case evidences that points to Gates being a close friend with Epstein, he was even in discussions to have Epstein be part of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, in order to clear his public image

Gates seems pretty normal to me.

UncleOxidant 5y ago

He's gone out of his way to cultivate that image.

rglover 5y ago
You mean the well-timed documentary humanizing him as a caring genius just before all this started was intentional?! Nah...
chaostheory 5y ago
Even before the Epstein scandal, there were hints of it old personality like when he claimed in Steve Job's biography that Next OS had no role or association with the creation of OSX (now Mac OS); hinting that Jobs was hired back on the board's whim.
SmellTheGlove 5y ago
There was a couple year span on Reddit where you'd see a couple of really positive Bill Gates posts each day. At a glance it seemed organic, but people were always in the comments suggesting it was great PR. Seems like they were probably right.
peakaboo 5y ago
The Netflix documentary about Bill Gates... Watch that. It's a very fine piece of propaganda and what makes it work. Excellent study material if you are interested in what makes people believe something.

tluyben2 5y ago

Read some early MS company stories.

krick 5y ago
Gladly. Perhaps you could link some of them?
- tluyben2 5y ago
  Google shows enough I guess but things like [0] and [1] but there are quite a few books describing it all in more detail and he has talked about it himself [2] (not only here). [0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/gates-ruthless-schemer-says-his-microsoft-co-founder-2257843.html%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/peop... [1] https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2021/01/leadership-styles-and-do-they-work-bill-gatess-flame-mails/ https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2021/01/leadership-styles-a... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-microsoft-culture-self-selected-males-went-too-far-2019-7%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/bill-ga...

rebelos 5y ago

Gates was a ruthless tyrant in his Microsoft days. He worked very hard to rehab his image after leaving. Work that might be completely undone if the nature of his alleged involvement with Epstein and the reprehensible things that may have entailed ever surface. He appears to have lost his wife because of the cloud of suspicion there.

tekproxy 5y ago
Ruthless brilliant maniacal tyrant. For more context, there's this famous story: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
- andi999 5y ago
  Interesting read. What part seems problematic to you?

socialist_pig 5y ago

Check out the recent Epstein case evidences that points to Gates being a close friend with Epstein, he was even in discussions to have Epstein be part of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, in order to clear his public image