Warren Buffett lives modestly in Omaha despite his wealth, while Bill Gates transformed from a harsh manager into a philanthropist. The hosts praise Satya Nadella's hopeful leadership at Microsoft and reflect on how both billionaires embody humility in different ways.
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And, and the reason I like Warren Buffett, the wizard, what's interesting about him to me is this guy doesn't have pretense. This is a, this is a guy who could be living in, in, you know, 500 different houses, all fully paid for, but he lives in Omaha, Nebraska. And he's, he's humble about that. And I use the words really ordered. I just find it an absolutely Fascinated, uh, from that asset. I could keep going, but those are two guys that have always kind of been up on my list. I understand that if I wanted to try to get lunch with Warren Buffett, it's like a half million dollars to charity. I don't have, I don't want to put my money, right? So I'll just, I'll just read about them. But those would be two people.
Um, yes, that I mean, sound very different, but I just find people like that fascinating. Definitely somebody I'd like to meet someday. Him and Bill Gates, right? They used to be the richest people in the world at one point, but now getting rid of their wealth. It's just incredible.
I think I will just say this and I can't go too much deeper, but my brother, my brother worked for Microsoft in the early days. And, uh, uh, I do, I would, I would categorize Bill Gates as a retiree. I know people that will know him. And I do think the growth he's done, the two things in the last decade is kind of amazing. Uh, but I had to, I have some Bill Gates stories, which I can't really say publicly, but, but there are, but he's grown a lot. The, the, uh, there was a, there was a, uh, a documentary called Bill's Brain.
Let's fix that, Dave. Yes.
Yeah. And he acknowledges when I was with, when I was, I worked down the street from Microsoft and his management and leadership style back then sucked. It was terrible that night. And I have stories around that. But what I saw going on Bill's brain where he said it, I realized I wasn't looking good enough then. And I thought, good for you. That's pretty awesome.
That takes a lot of humility to, uh, does that.
Funny how we keep coming back to that word this morning.
Yeah, it is really amazing. And I know the, uh, current CEO of Microsoft is just Outstanding.
He is. He's hopeful.
Yes. Yes.
He really is. But he's also a venture capitalist. We could do a whole other thing on how do you be a venture capitalist.
