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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
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From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.
Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.
Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes.
Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
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$16.99
Amazon Customer –
I didn’t really know what to expect with this book…I sort of thought Bill Gates was just the guy who created Microsoft. This is more about what happened after and how he started a charity with seemingly altruistic ends that really just fed his ego. His desperation for attention — and his choice in friends like Jeffrey Epstein (!) — really comes through, as does his serial cheating on his longtime wife Melinda. This book will really make you think about who we decide are our heroes.
Amazon Customer –
We’re obsessed with billionaires. And Gates is one of the ones who has captured our attention for the last few decades. Is he self-made? Questionable. A good husband? A good boss? A good philanthropist? Why does any of it matter? This examination of Gates meticulously goes through those questions. Billionaires sometimes pledge to “Do No Evil” — of course, they’re setting themselves up for an impossible task.
Kathryn Kvas –
So important to see how billionaires shape our world and such a well researched book about Bill Gates