steven philip warner, assistant editor, b&e, collides with many people within the gates fraternity for a stunning insider account of the man who re-coded the world... and we follow it up by a smashing one-on-one interaction with the man himself, the one they call...
Well, i don’t know what you all call him; or rather, I think I know too well. You, and I know of him as Bill Gates. That part is simple. He is/was called Trey by his close family members [Trey, as in three, as he was III in the line of the Gates tree]. Many Microsoft insiders also address him as BillG. Leave family and the closest of closest friends, he chooses to talk to people he ‘chooses’. It is rarely otherwise. And that point kept nagging me while my team and I were hounding his offices, Microsoft and what say you, to get him to ‘choose’ us. I had good reasons. The man was on the cover of TIME last month, wasn’t he? He’d ‘chosen’ to write a treatise on what he termed ‘Creative Capitalism’, solutions to help those billions left behind. So when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wrote to us all of a sudden, out of nowhere a few days back, it was like a most smashing and pleasurable bolt from the blue. I was informed that Microsoft in Seattle, USA, had forwarded our interview requests to the foundation too, and they were rushing in to us the minutes of the meeting between Bill, Melinda and Buffet, where they describe the reasons for the billions in grants to the foundation and also the reasons the foundation is focused on specific areas.
$29 billion is what Gates has given since 2000 to his own foundation in this quest. That is, apart from his own services at the top – on June 27, 2008, Bill Gates relinquished [and not ‘resigned’: Bill says he hates to use that word] his official day to day duties at Microsoft and joined the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation ‘full-time’ [“I’ll still be involved part-time with Microsoft, but my full-time job will be at the foundation,” Bill shares in our exclusive interview later on]! You add another $40 odd billion that he’s made his best friend of recent times [17 years till date], Warren Buffett, give to the foundation, and you have the makings of the greatest philanthropist in the history of mankind.
Well, i don’t know what you all call him; or rather, I think I know too well. You, and I know of him as Bill Gates. That part is simple. He is/was called Trey by his close family members [Trey, as in three, as he was III in the line of the Gates tree]. Many Microsoft insiders also address him as BillG. Leave family and the closest of closest friends, he chooses to talk to people he ‘chooses’. It is rarely otherwise. And that point kept nagging me while my team and I were hounding his offices, Microsoft and what say you, to get him to ‘choose’ us. I had good reasons. The man was on the cover of TIME last month, wasn’t he? He’d ‘chosen’ to write a treatise on what he termed ‘Creative Capitalism’, solutions to help those billions left behind. So when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wrote to us all of a sudden, out of nowhere a few days back, it was like a most smashing and pleasurable bolt from the blue. I was informed that Microsoft in Seattle, USA, had forwarded our interview requests to the foundation too, and they were rushing in to us the minutes of the meeting between Bill, Melinda and Buffet, where they describe the reasons for the billions in grants to the foundation and also the reasons the foundation is focused on specific areas.
$29 billion is what Gates has given since 2000 to his own foundation in this quest. That is, apart from his own services at the top – on June 27, 2008, Bill Gates relinquished [and not ‘resigned’: Bill says he hates to use that word] his official day to day duties at Microsoft and joined the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation ‘full-time’ [“I’ll still be involved part-time with Microsoft, but my full-time job will be at the foundation,” Bill shares in our exclusive interview later on]! You add another $40 odd billion that he’s made his best friend of recent times [17 years till date], Warren Buffett, give to the foundation, and you have the makings of the greatest philanthropist in the history of mankind.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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