Deciphering Bill Gates .. Netflix reveals a thousand faces of genius

Noha Saad

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, a three-part Netflix documentary about the life of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. From the title you can find out the content of the documentary that promises you will be inside Bill's brain.

Davis Guggenheim, the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary director for his film An Inconvenient Truth, said: "Sometimes my documentaries seem to be films on some issues, but to me, it's about people who fascinate me and Bill Gates." An interesting personality and the way he thinks that leads things, his optimism and his approach to solving problems. "

"The truth is that what I learned about Bill is very ambitious and emotional, but he puts these emotions aside," he said of Microsoft's founder. "You can't be led by your heart alone, which makes you unable to see the solution before your eyes. So I think that's his super power."

The biggest concerns
During the three episodes of the film, Bill touched on many details of his personal life from his childhood and upbringing in Redmond, and his career at the beginning of his work at Microsoft, and the nights he spent for his dream and social life at the time, and about the smallest details of his life such as his favorite food "of course hamburgers" and his animal My favorite is the dog, and when asked about his biggest fears, Bill answered without thinking: "I don't want my brain to stop working."

did not change
Gates founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, stepped down as CEO in 2000. When asked in a documentary about anyone trying during these years to change Bill, he said: "No one has ever tried to change my strange appearance or my way of looking at my glasses. "I have become something essential in my life. I read and chew my glasses. This is my job."

He remembers everything he reads
According to a former Microsoft employee, it was not uncommon for Gates to read 14 books on vacation, reading up to 150 pages per hour.

`` If you read enough, you will find that there are a lot of similarities between things, which makes remembering easier, '' he said.``If you have a wide frame to look at, there's a place to put everything you know. '' ".

Orange powder
"I was buying a can of Tang (orange sugar powder) and pouring it into my hand and licking it with my mouth," Gates said of his start-up period and passion for his business. "I work to take advantage of some energy from sugar. There is no need to dissolve it in water. With lots of water. "

"The goal is to get energy without wasting any time away from my job."

Chaos
Gates spoke of his passion for his limitless work, the time his company was founded and how it was his time at the time. About his brain, which does all of these things, his wife Melinda called it "a huge mess."

Wrong look
Gates acknowledged his mistake in prioritizing his life and away from his achievements and success at Microsoft, talked about the disappointment felt by his mother because of his preference for his company from his family and said: "I had the wrong way to look at things. ? ".

Bill and Melinda Foundation
In the documentary, Gates spoke about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he founded with his wife after stepping down from Microsoft, which has spent more than $ 36 billion since its founding, to work on global health, emergency relief, education, poverty, and global warming. In renewable energy, the Foundation is working to eliminate diseases such as malaria, Ebola and polio in developing countries.

"It may seem counterintuitive to record a document at a time when I am still in the middle of solving these complex issues, but I hope more people will be involved in solving some of these problems. I hope this documentary leaves people optimistic that big problems can be addressed," Gates said.

The documentary explored part of Gates' life with his wife and how their relationship began in 1987 when Melinda worked at Microsoft and sat next to each other at a business lunch in New York City. After a year of engagement, Gates told her about their relationship. "You know, we care about each other. Or get married. "

"He had to make a decision. One day I entered his room and I found him writing a list of the pros and cons of marriage." He made the decision and married at the age of 38 and Melinda, 29, and their wedding was in 1994 in Lanai, Hawaii.

"You are lucky in life and lucky in war," Guggenheim said in the documentary. "He is in love too."