Microsoft co -founder Bill Gates on Try Acid, The Future of Ai and Trump’s Health Focus

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A look back and look forward to one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs of our time.

With Microsoft (MSFT), which turns 50 this year and a newly published book about his life called “Source Code: My Beginning”, it is not surprising that many want to see a deeper look at what makes Bill Gates cross.

It is a Life Gates, 69, shares in “Source Code” that chronicates his childhood in the upper middle class in Seattle up to the start of Microsoft in 1975 with friend and co -founder Paul Allen. The book has a few stories that can as a surprise to Microsoft Investors.

“Yes, that’s correct,” Gates told Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi On the opening bidder when asked if an older Allen gave a younger gates of drugs to try as a teenager.

Added gates, “Paul was in charge of all kinds of things. I mean, my first time I got intoxicated the first time I smoked marijuana. You know he got a bit of a kick out of seeing my kind of zany high energy and you know how It can be affected.

In the source code, he credit his very supportive parents, Mary and Bill Sr.-Isarous his super-organized and targeted mother-for a great deal of his success.

“If you had to choose someone who shaped me in my desire to please and succeed, it’s definitely my mother,” he said. “My parents were both amazing, but my mother was around all the time and asked me to fix my manners and to be dressed and be in time.”

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He and Allen-there died in 2018 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma-so plenty of success at Microsoft, who continues to innovate in a very competitive tech landscape.

Gates says he is happy to see the company, now led by CEO Satya Nadella, investing aggressively in AI and working closely with key partner Openai.

“I’m excited Microsoft make these investments,” Gates said. “But there is great uncertainty there. Meanwhile, the AI ​​things are improving that improves at a very fast speed. In a way, it is more predictable that in the same three to five years it becomes extremely powerful. “

Microsoft is not the only port of port-attributed device to celebrate a milestone birthday this year. His nonprofit organization, The Gates Foundation, will be 25.

Its goals and mission often surround public health, including the eradication of diseases and distribution of vaccines. Health initiatives such as vaccines are currently under the microscope with the Trump administration and his choices to lead Health & Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but Gates comforts the foundation’s record.