He is your best friend, and focuses on his ambition more than you, reading business magazines when he is a teenager. His accidental death at the age of 17 haunts this book and your life.
Kent helped to shape me as a person facing forward. And then Paul was reading about chips, and he showed me it. He was two years ahead of me but he has been looking for me.
Paul also gave you LSD. Steve Jobs once said that LSD is an experience of forming and opening his mind in a way that helps him create and design. I have no impression that the use of acid changes your life.
I think the lot that Steve is really good for product design and marketing. God, just think that if I have that lot! Yes, I did some crazy things when I was young. Paul deserves some credit for that. At a time when we were serious about work, we didn't do it anymore.
You also write briefly about the famous time that you are destroyed for acceleration. Are you confused when in prison for one night?
No, it's just a funny thing. They think it is strange that someone is very young to have a beautiful car, what is the story with this child? Am I a drug dealer or something?
You bought yourself a Porsche in the twenties.
I clearly not fit their normal model. We kept enough cash that Paul was able to go down and sponsor me.
Talking about cash, on the recent Netflix -ray, the host, you made an episode about inequality. You did not condemn the idea of billionaires but supported more equality. How will that work?
The world economy has created a number of super rich people. Like me. And maybe 50 or 60 others. Elon Musk is the head of that list, but with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, there are many people with beautiful levels of wealth. I think it is okay. I will have a much more progressive tax system, so I will have about a third of the money as I have. It will still be a huge asset.
The New York Times reported that Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO was on the way to avoid real estate taxes of $ 8 billion. When you read that, do you think, I should consult his tax lawyer? Or say that this is not a good thing?
I am quite sure that I paid more taxes than anyone who lived more than $ 12 billion. There are my techniques maybe Used, want to borrow compared to my microsoft stock and don't sell them. But if people get rid of paying less taxes more legally, blaming them is a bit strange. We should change the tax system.
They may commit crimes because they use political pressure to preserve their holes and cut off the funding for IRS.
The votes of these billionaires should not affect our tax system. In addition, some of the 50 super -rich are more advanced taxes. I was surprised that even the Democratic Party did not go far to make the tax tools more progressive. I am a huge defender of real estate tax, I think it is a great thing. I will make it even more difficult to avoid it.
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Talk about artificial intelligence. You have worked with it for many years, but you have been slow in capturing the recent AI transformation breakthrough. It was not until Openai made the demo of GPT-4 at your home And checked an AP biological test that you became on it. What is the reason for your initial doubt?
The idea of who has the spread of my whole history with the computer. Strangely, when I left Harvard to start Microsoft, one of the things I thought I could regret was the progress in AI in the academy that could move quickly while I was doing translators. basic. That turned out to be very wrong. I expect that when we can encrypt our knowledge in a rich way, where it can read a biological textbook and pass the AP test, that we will clearly understand the way them. We encrypt that knowledge. Instead, we discovered a strange statistical algorithm that we didn't understand. Why does GPT operate? We have no clues. But when Openai showed me GPT-4, it stunned me that they had overcome a very important threshold. We still have reliability problems, but we have a way now I think all of that will be resolved.