Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates And His Quest To Shape Our World

  • Autore: Anupreeta Das
  • Narratore: Ulka Simone Mohanty
  • Editore: Simon & Schuster
  • Durata: 11:10:08
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From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes.

Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.

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  • 001 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Open

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  • 002 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing DedicationAndIntroduction

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  • 003 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter1 WhyWeLoveBillionaires

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  • 004 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter2 TheUrNerdOfCapitalism

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  • 005 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter3 RockstarToRobberBaron

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  • 006 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter4 ThePivot

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  • 007 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter5 BestiesWithBuffett

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  • 008 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter6 MelindaWithoutBill

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  • 009 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter7a GlobalSaviorBigPhilanthropist

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  • 010 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter7b GlobalSaviorBigPhilanthropist

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  • 011 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter8 TheGatesKeepers

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  • 012 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter9 CancelBill

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  • 013 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Chapter10 WhyWeHateBillionaires

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  • 014 BillionaireNerdSaviorKing Conclusion

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