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________ was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on January 31, 2016, in which he talked about his relationships with his father and Steve Jobs, meeting Melinda Ann French, the start of Microsoft and some of his habits (for example reading The Economist /"from cover to cover every week)/

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Governments

What are there to think ahead to bad things that might happen? Answer with a single words or term.

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Microsoft

________ launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985.

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Melinda Gates

We can't forget that another pandemic will come and we 'll need to invest in being ready in that,, while not forgetting that we were not prepared and we 're going to have to invest- just like having a fire department- some money in an intelligent way and actually simulate what might happen and make sure that we 're ready for it. ________ suggested that people should emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, who sold their home and gave away half of its value, as detailed in their book, The Power of Half.

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Global energy transitions

________ have historically taken decades.

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Gates

________ said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years.

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Who was born and raised in Seattle, Washington? Answer with a single words or term.

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________ has held the top spot on the list of The World's Billionaires for 18 out of the past 23 years.

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________ spearheaded two initiatives that he announced at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

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________ giving his deposition at Microsoft on August 27, 1998.

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________ met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and the managers described him as being verbally combative.

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________ read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics which demonstrated the Altair 8800, and he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.

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