Excellent books Bill Gates recommends? The Great Gatsby F. Scot Fitzgerald: The book portrays the Jazz Age very accurately talks about the disillusionment of money, status and lavish living. The story revolves around a rich man Jay Gatsby who threw glamourous parties at his Long Island’s mansion. Although there were hundreds of guests, loud jazz music, champagne and confetti all around, Jay Gatsby was distant and uninterested because he had only one guest to impress – a married, elegant and charismatic woman from Kentucky, Daisy Buchanan. A tragic pursuit by Gatsby for attaining the unattainable even when he was living an ‘American Dream’ life shows that happiness is more than what money and status are all about. Here is what Bill Gates said about this book: “The novel that I re-read the most. Melinda and I love one line so much that we had it painted on a wall in our house: ‘His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.'” “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.” Read additional details on Bill Gates book recommend.
Though he spends most of his time with his foundation, Gates says he is still working with Microsoft on its “Personal Agent,” which will “remember everything and help you go back and find things and help you pick what things to pay attention to.” Despite his interest in AI, Gates says he is “in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.” That camp also includes notable leaders in science in technology, like Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking.
My Years with General Motors” was published in 1963 and straight after that it became a bestseller and one of the books to read for every businessman. Not only this is the story of one of the world´s leading company in the automobile industry, but also it can be used as a manual for future business tycoons as it contains the unique experience of a leader who led the company to the prosperity. During reddit’s AMA Bill Gates said that “Better Angels of Our Nature” is his “favorite book of the last decade”. He added that “it is long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time”.
Bill and his now ex-wife Melinda Gates have three kids—Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. A fun fact is that they weren’t allowed to have a phone until the age of 14. They also won’t inherit their dad’s entire fortune. We don’t feel too bad about them, though. The year was 1975. Bill Gates and his partner and childhood friend Paul Allen founded software company Microsoft—and the rest is history. When he stepped down from the company in 2020, however, he owned just about 1% of its shares. So, who is the owner of Microsoft now? According to Yahoo! Finance, the largest shareholder as of 2022, is Vanguard Group, Inc., with 8.2%. No single individual has a majority interest in the company.
Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil : When Gates reviewed this book back in 2019, he called it “masterpiece” from “one of my favorite thinkers.” While he cautioned the book is “not for everyone” and that “long sections read like a textbook or engineering manual,” he also insisted that Smil’s examination of the growth of just about everything, from dinosaurs to the number of transistors on a computer chip, is nothing short of brilliant. “Nobody sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil,” Gates concluded. See additional information at snapreads.com.