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The Untold Truth Of Bill Gates - YouTube
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he's been making headlines for decades
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as one of the richest men in the world
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but there's a lot about bill gates the
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average microsoft user doesn't know
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in light of the news of his impending
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divorce here's the untold truth of the
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man who's a billionaire 130 times over
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future microsoft co-owner paul allen met
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bill gates in high school
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one summer when allen was back in
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seattle from college and gates was still
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a high school senior they started a
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business
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you know just normal teenage boy
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shenanigans they created a mini computer
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to track the flow of traffic
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though that sounds incredibly boring it
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could be very useful to cities wanting
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to know where to place new traffic
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signals or stop signs or make road
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alterations or repairs
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gates came up with the name trapo data
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and gates and allen had a working
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prototype two years and fifteen hundred
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dollars later
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unfortunately for the data duo nobody
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cared they did no market research so
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they didn't realize that getting the
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local government to invest money in
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anything is a real pain according to
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newsweek after six years of trying
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trafford data lost 3494. and was soon
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dragged to the recycling bin of history
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obviously that didn't deter the pair
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from their commercial ambitions and they
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went on to create microsoft
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probably to get revenge on those who
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didn't appreciate their cool traffic
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related ideas
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bill gates doesn't seem like a guy with
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a long rap sheet but looks can be
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deceiving
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in 1977 gates was arrested in new mexico
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though his exact crime wasn't recorded
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could it be some kind of
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computer-related scheme no it was just a
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traffic violation funnily enough and
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since the authorities didn't record what
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specifically led to his arrest
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the details of gate's small time
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criminal act have seemingly been lost to
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time
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though the specifics about the incident
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may be sketchy it definitely happened
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and the city of albuquerque has the
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smiling mug shot to prove it
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way back in 1976 bill gates wrote an
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open letter to hobbyist to discourage
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people from using his software without
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pain
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the technology was so new it wasn't
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clearly covered under copyright law
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gates was adamant that the share and
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sharealike culture of the time would
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discourage programmers from bothering to
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make new software if they knew it would
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only be stolen
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gates thought the letter would be the
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end of it since open letters asking
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people to start paying for stuff they
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can get for free are usually very
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effective
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but copyright law remains cloudy in 1979
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a federal court ruled that one company
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selling an exact copy of another
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company's computer chess game was not a
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violation of the law
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according to michael bieby crafts bill
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gates biography
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by 1980 gates had to speak out again
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about unlicensed software usage
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in an interview with 80 microcomputing
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magazine gates detailed the importance
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of software copyrights and said this
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there's nobody getting rich writing
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software that i know of that was true at
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the time and with the licensing issues
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and completely uncharted territory of
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the software world
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gates had no reason to think he'd wind
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up one of the richest men in the world
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talk about a reversal of fortune
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bill gates and paul allen had a long
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history of working together
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after the trapodata failure the two
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pressed on working feverishly to create
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software needed for the upcoming
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computer world
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according to the guardian it was alan in
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fact who came up with the name microsoft
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gates had a lot of respect for allen in
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fact he dropped out of harvard his
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sophomore year to join allen in new
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mexico to grow their business
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but he didn't always treat him as an
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equal when they debuted their first
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major project the programming language
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basic
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gates spent hours double checking all of
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alan's work turns out it was error-free
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despite allen's major contributions to
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microsoft in 1982 he overheard gates and
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steve ballmer who ran the business side
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of the company talking about allen's
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diminishing contributions
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conspiring about how they could dilute
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his equity according to business insider
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but allen wasn't just slacking off he
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had cancer
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allen called him out and quit the
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company a while later gates wanted to
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buy allen out of his stock holdings at
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five dollars a share
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allen wanted ten dollars gates said no
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thank you so alan kept his stock and
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made almost
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20 billion dollars though bill gates
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had his share of difficulties he's been
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rewarded for a software genius with a
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net worth of 124 billion dollars as of
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2021
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he's not known for splashing out on
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crazy expensive purchases
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unlike paul allen who owned the seattle
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seahawks had a collection of vintage
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warplanes and made a rock and roll
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museum in seattle that contains lots
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from his personal collection
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gates doesn't have any such hobbies but
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he did go all
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out on an insane house sitting on lake
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washington the 66 000 square foot
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property is called xanadu 2.0
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sadly it's not because gates is a big
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olivia newton john fan
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it's actually named after the fictional
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mansion of charles foster kane from
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citizen kane
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though it doesn't seem like a gym rat
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gates builds a 2500 foot fitness center
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complete with a trampoline room
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the coolest part is that xanadu 2.0 has
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crazy smart home technology that none of
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us will have for another 40 years
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every guest who enters is given a pin
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that pin interacts with sensors around
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the house that will adjust your
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surroundings based on your taste of
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music and lighting
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gates was already ahead of the curve
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with touchpad technology since he's had
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a pad in every room to control the
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temperature since 1995.
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plus within the walls of the mansion is
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the codex leicester leonardo da vinci's
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notebook which gates bought for 30.8
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million dollars
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if only everyone could grow up to live
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out every child's dream of owning a 16th
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century geniuses scribbles
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and so they're unbelievable
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contributions to science
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despite his lamish home bill gates
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really does give a lot of his money away
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prior to their 2021 divorce announcement
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bill and melinda gates often topped the
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forbes list of most philanthropic people
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in just one typical year the husband and
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wife foundation gave away 2.65 billion
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dollars toward fighting malaria polio
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and other diseases while donating tons
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to the world health organization
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they also gave 50 million dollars to the
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international aids vaccine initiative
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the gates foundation also gives away
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millions in college scholarships and
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other educational causes he's given
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nearly a billion dollars out in
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scholarships to minority students
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and recently set up a cambridge
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scholarship program with a trust of 210
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million dollars all in all bill and
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melinda gates have donated nearly 30
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billion dollars
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it's nice to see all those billions
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aren't just going to trampoline
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maintenance
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now that he stepped down from running
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microsoft bill gates has time for the
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little things in life like reddit amas
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his 2017 ask me anything was full of
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absolutely crucial facts
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like that his favorite sandwich is a
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cheeseburger he loves going to australia
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for vacation
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and that apparently he doesn't have a
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lot of parenting advice to share
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when a father to be asked him for dad
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tips gates replied
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melinda is very creative about helping
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me find chances to spend time with the
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kids
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even just driving them to school is a
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great time to talk to them gates seemed
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to take the q a seriously and even
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filmed a sketch to promote it
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clearly a viewer of saturday night live
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gates did a david pumpkin sequel
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as christmas pumpkins though his dancing
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leaves something to be desired it's good
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that gates chose to keep the tom hanks
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voice and do some fine lip syncing work
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any questions when they aren't busy
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talking to their dad in cars the gates
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kids must be getting ready for their
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sick
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billion dollar inheritance right well
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bill doesn't think his kids should get
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the majority of his wealth after he's
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gone his three children won't have to
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work at mcdonald's necessarily but they
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aren't going to waste away in their own
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xanadu style mansions
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gates told itv they are never going to
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be poorly off
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our kids will receive a great education
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and some money but they'll go out and
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have their own career
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it's not a favor to kids to have them
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have huge sums of wealth it distorts
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anything they might do creating their
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own path
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gates says each child will get 10
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million dollars luckily his kids
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reportedly agree with his thrifty
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inheritance plan and are happy that the
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money will go to help those in much
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greater need
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though as children may not be able to
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have a house with 24 bathrooms
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somehow they'll get by bill gates
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doesn't seem to be the sportiest chap
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around but that doesn't mean he
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completely lacks physical ability in an
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interview with connie chung in 1994 she
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pulled out the hard questions asking
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is it true you can leap over a chair
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from a standing position first of all
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that's a classic example of some real
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gotcha journalism
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regardless gates happily admitted that
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the rumor is true and that he can indeed
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easily jump over chairs though he did
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specify quote
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it depends on the size of the chair to
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illustrate this talent gates was happy
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to jump over a regular old office chair
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on national tv
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in his 2017 reddit ama gates said this
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isn't something he can do anymore
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when asked can you still jump over an
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office chair from a standing position
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gates responded
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no perhaps a small chair a stool i do
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exercise in ski but my main sport is
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tennis which doesn't involve jumping
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some people jump over the nets but that
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isn't part of the sport looks like
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there's an opening for famous
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billionaire chair jumper
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