Answering Back - Susannah Simons interviews Bill Gates

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  • From Late 1992, Bill Gates talks about Microsoft's position in the market, and its room for growth in the future.
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  • @sev2300
    @sev2300 Před 5 lety +128

    This interview feels like it was recorded on two separate time lines! 2020 for Bill Gates and 1980 for the interviewer.

    • @cellocovers3982
      @cellocovers3982 Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah. I think partly because Bill is at heart a taciturn nerd and quiet. But her style added to the effect.

    • @dvr1337
      @dvr1337 Před 4 lety +2

      Bill looks like someone from the 40s

  • @jairoz5412
    @jairoz5412 Před 4 lety +18

    If you saw the interview, Gates talked about smart tv's in fucking 1992, that's awesome

  • @beckyb5273
    @beckyb5273 Před 4 lety +28

    “some of my ideas i think are pretty good”
    good job bill

  • @caribbeanpilot4410
    @caribbeanpilot4410 Před měsícem +2

    It’s very interesting watching these old videos recorded way back in time predicting what the future would be with the benefit of having already seen what has actually transpired. 😊

  • @roderickotheguy3240
    @roderickotheguy3240 Před 5 lety +6

    Thanks a million for sharing this video with humanity. Regards from Argentina via Canada.

  • @rightcoast7049
    @rightcoast7049 Před 4 lety +14

    It's so obvious that all she sees is the barriers they face, but Bill sees right past them. Perspective is everything.

  • @rotimibest8530
    @rotimibest8530 Před 3 lety +29

    This man is just a genius at answering questions. He is so optimistic in his answers and doesn't take questions personal.

  • @oreostastegoods
    @oreostastegoods Před 5 lety +46

    She starts every question with 'but' -- who hired this lady?

    • @speckart989
      @speckart989 Před 5 lety +14

      Exactly! I was about to comment this. Bill had to be very patient, explaining everything so kindly to such a negative person.

    • @steveb8462
      @steveb8462 Před 4 lety +6

      It's a British thing.

    • @makara2711
      @makara2711 Před 3 lety

      @@steveb8462 no it's not

    • @neil7090
      @neil7090 Před 2 lety +1

      @@makara2711 It's may be a British feminist thing, although I'm not certain.

  • @drichards4426
    @drichards4426 Před 5 lety +29

    His face is 9:18 is priceless.
    This journalist is talking to a young titan about business as if she has ever had to build anything...ever.
    All negativity and regurgitation, no substance.
    Respect to Gates for the composure. Dude is such a pro.

    • @rses916
      @rses916 Před 3 lety

      @MrHoppers002 🤣

    • @skyxcx9781
      @skyxcx9781 Před 3 lety +1

      That's her job she was not being harsh.

    • @makara2711
      @makara2711 Před 3 lety

      @@skyxcx9781 she can be an interviewer and not ask questions in that manner

    • @Trendleader863
      @Trendleader863 Před rokem

      He looked her up and down and said "bitch please" in his mind

  • @davidr4523
    @davidr4523 Před 3 lety +25

    These interviews are so interesting to see what a genius was thinking about before the last 28 years of technical innovations. This woman's questions were a bit general but she seems to be quite intelligent. However she has no vision for the future whereas Bill Gates is living it. Too bad that Microsoft never has a service for video such as CZcams. All of Gates responses were very eloquent and extremely quick. His poise and communication skills at the age of 36 is highly impressive.

    • @underated17
      @underated17 Před 3 lety +3

      He is so young and youthful here. His voice hasn’t changed much. He is sooo handsome here!

    • @jerickzane
      @jerickzane Před 2 lety +2

      @@underated17 calm yourself.

    • @johnhoward374
      @johnhoward374 Před 2 lety +1

      Evil genius

    • @fatronjones
      @fatronjones Před 2 lety +1

      @@underated17 ummmmm...LOL. WIERDO!

    • @GenX-RadRat
      @GenX-RadRat Před rokem

      Please: HOW is he a genius? lol

  • @BiffTannenBTTF
    @BiffTannenBTTF Před 5 lety +12

    I've been driving around the Microsoft campus in Redmond for the last hour looking at the dozens of buildings they now have covering hundreds of acres. I think Bill was right sweet heart. LOL

    • @scottsimmons9296
      @scottsimmons9296 Před 4 lety +5

      She was a good interviewer, she got interesting answers from him.

    • @Trendleader863
      @Trendleader863 Před rokem

      Message her and tell her that 30 years later

  • @lanabyk8012
    @lanabyk8012 Před měsícem +1

    Its about 221,000 MS employees now..in 2024..

  • @kimperes5987
    @kimperes5987 Před 4 lety +9

    9:14 whoa! That look he gives her before answering.

    • @jerome9626
      @jerome9626 Před 4 lety +4

      Kim Peres His intellect spontaneously seized upon the hypocrisy of her age and condition relative to his DOS she declared old at a mere ten years. His eugenics family background nearly pronounced a curse through eye gate.

    • @rses916
      @rses916 Před 3 lety

      @@jerome9626 🤣

  • @commanderchbib
    @commanderchbib Před 4 lety +12

    I like how he immediately disarms her polarizing question about the "Japanese threat" without as much as a hiccup 22:51.

  • @maralee1982
    @maralee1982 Před 5 lety +18

    What a visionary, the man is amazing!!

  • @chrisvinci5417
    @chrisvinci5417 Před 3 lety +4

    "email sounds like a bureaucracy" LOL

  • @sunny-handa
    @sunny-handa Před 3 lety +3

    this guy came from the future using time machine to dominate the world. definitely living 100 years in future while being in the present.

  • @Picnmo
    @Picnmo Před 4 lety +4

    Ahead of his time. Very interesting to hear this in 2020.

  • @ktown1389
    @ktown1389 Před 4 lety +21

    Susannah Simons: Surely the book is the most interactive form of learning possible
    Bill Gates: On a computer we could blend text, sound, pictures and the ability to go at your own pace, the possibilities are endless.
    Susannah Simons: *I havent gotten the slightest clue what you're talking about*

    • @inspirationalbalance5974
      @inspirationalbalance5974 Před 4 lety +3

      Bill Gates still reads books. Hard Copy book only. I am not kidding.

    • @underated17
      @underated17 Před 3 lety

      And I just learned about a private school in California or the west coast that does not use any technology. They have a chalk and white board. I miss things about those days.

  • @abinashrabhaofficial
    @abinashrabhaofficial Před 3 lety +2

    He mentioned about Smart TVs in 1992 ... I was not even born then. 🙏

  • @vaimast
    @vaimast Před 3 lety +1

    min 14:00 there its the moment when the brilliance of this man and how he started to improve the world. its sound simple and a lot of sense what he was doing. Thanks bill you really deserve what you got.

  • @drichards4426
    @drichards4426 Před 5 lety +26

    Talking about smart tvs in 1992

    • @carlosang3l
      @carlosang3l Před 3 lety

      He had it in mind since like 87

    • @Ur2ez4me81
      @Ur2ez4me81 Před 2 lety

      Just like how he was talking about a deadly global pandemic in 2017. Almost like he’s a time traveler or something…

  • @prestonmichaelofficial

    One of the only world humans I can think of who's voice and accent never changed one bit.

  • @lalalol1215
    @lalalol1215 Před 3 lety +12

    She sees everything from such a negative perspective that she lost the opportunity to interview a genius. He was patient. It must have been an exhausting interview for him.

  • @zabrak999
    @zabrak999 Před rokem

    The chemistry between the two was up & down; I dig Bill’s acknowledge nod to her ‘thank you’

  • @m.asifhussain1730
    @m.asifhussain1730 Před 3 lety +7

    Smaller companies always challenged Microsoft, but it was interesting that how Microsoft eradicated them one by one.

  • @joyandpeacefullaughter5307

    I can't believe they are talking about multimedia here. I don't even have that in my phone anymore 😂😂

  • @rv555ba
    @rv555ba Před 5 lety +19

    Wow, she was annoying and extremely prejudiced.

  • @musicandoutdoors
    @musicandoutdoors Před 5 lety +27

    Beast. Just a beast

  • @kpk331
    @kpk331 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Talks like a saintly kid... Unbelievably humble..
    But he is the most cunning businessman world has ever seen!

  • @theorex8621
    @theorex8621 Před 5 lety +11

    True pioneer of an industry. Hats off genius.

  • @Ben-kw8bo
    @Ben-kw8bo Před 3 lety +4

    "But what can a computer do that a book can't??" *facepalm* R U SIRIUS

  • @solidstate0
    @solidstate0 Před 4 lety +1

    The age of a product's brand and identity does not in any way dictate its lack of usefulness and efficiency. Many products which haven't changed their face over time are still in existence and are constantly evolving. Heck, your up to date PC today will still run code written 50 or more years ago if you have the right operating environment for it (VM etc.)

  • @roberts5890
    @roberts5890 Před 4 lety +14

    Like a 90s version of the Cathy Newman and Jordan Peterson interview.....just replace "so what you're saying" with "but what about.."

  • @cletus2941
    @cletus2941 Před 5 lety +26

    How Bill didn't come up with smartphone first, i'll never understand....

    • @2jzandys444
      @2jzandys444 Před 4 lety +3

      Would’ve been a $2 trillion company by now

    • @BjornWiese
      @BjornWiese Před 4 lety +3

      blablablablabla...... simple: he didn't have the vision in that particular segment of future tech. Steve had. Period

    • @zaidcarlos75
      @zaidcarlos75 Před 4 lety

      Did he ignore one of his colleagues who were intuitively extremely tech savvy?

    • @zaidcarlos75
      @zaidcarlos75 Před 4 lety

      2 bombs - IBM got one, & the other one missed!

    • @makara2711
      @makara2711 Před 3 lety +1

      because computers have more to offer than smartphones...

  • @underated17
    @underated17 Před 3 lety

    Very unique! How could you bill! Unique is an absolute term!

  • @zehahaha2899
    @zehahaha2899 Před 4 lety +10

    @8:42 smart tv???

  • @Teabone3
    @Teabone3 Před 3 lety

    I feel like they could simplify Workgroups even more. They are a bit clumsy still to setup and sync.

  • @0zyris
    @0zyris Před 6 měsíci

    ...and now we have artificial intelligence, intelligent fabrics, intelligent vehicles, advanced robotics, 8K screens you talk to...

  • @AJR42723
    @AJR42723 Před 4 lety +5

    so much "but".. can she just agree at least once? LOL

  • @Kiinell
    @Kiinell Před 6 lety +54

    "But email is just electronic bureaucracy, isn't it?" Silly cow.

    • @drichards4426
      @drichards4426 Před 5 lety +13

      Easy to say looking back.

    • @skyxcx9781
      @skyxcx9781 Před 3 lety

      It's similar to how we'd look at Apple and iphone only features as being gatekept

  • @BrianAnderson82
    @BrianAnderson82 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Proverbs 1:22 (KJV) How long ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

  • @ThatCoolKidYouKnow
    @ThatCoolKidYouKnow Před 3 lety +1

    @4:50 Microsoft has over 156 thousand employee in 2020, significantly more than his 24 thousand maximum estimate

  • @user-gd4wt6oi7y
    @user-gd4wt6oi7y Před 5 měsíci

    correct, information is key to knowledge...at that young age he spoke about it but it was Google who actually went ahead and created that website.

  • @simetric6551
    @simetric6551 Před 3 lety +1

    25:00 Gates said I'm 36 so this interview was done in 1990 not 1992.

    • @TheRealMiamiman70
      @TheRealMiamiman70 Před 3 lety

      No. This was right before his 37th birthday around October 1992

  • @cletus2941
    @cletus2941 Před 5 lety +29

    the sheep interviewing the shepherd....

  • @poncho3
    @poncho3 Před 2 lety

    It was interesting asking why keeping alive a 10 years old product like the Dos System , I remember those times when a system was judged by how innovative was the code , that year was released Linux and it was (still) free so why to keep paying .

  • @noelantoine1450
    @noelantoine1450 Před 5 lety +31

    How do you get these videos? He's a perfect beauty!

    • @vhsvideovault
      @vhsvideovault  Před 5 lety +14

      They're all stuff I recorded at the time. I've got a collection of almost 3000 tapes, and I'm currently cataloging them one by one. Here's the page covering this video. vhistory.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/bill-gates-interview-star-trek-tape-1366/

    • @samajlo4336
      @samajlo4336 Před 5 lety +3

      @@vhsvideovault Your got a sub. Keep doing this.

  • @user-b39z1
    @user-b39z1 Před 8 měsíci

    The leading Force of Technological INNOVATION...
    Microsoft! 🖇

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 Před 7 měsíci

    I saw him at Comdex in like 1994/1995, and he was an UBER nerd.

  • @danutahull9319
    @danutahull9319 Před 2 lety +6

    Bill a forward thinker with a vision, gifted with a brilliant mind and a great head on his shoulders at an early age. A great achievement. You have done yourself proud.
    Congratulations
    🎉
    May you always continue doing great things in your life
    Much love and blessings
    🙏♥️

  • @alpacino4857
    @alpacino4857 Před 3 lety +2

    The famous oversize glasses LOL

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 Před 7 měsíci

    He's wearing a 1970s Sears Catalog rugby shirt.

  • @callumvanheerden1530
    @callumvanheerden1530 Před 4 lety +6

    BuT EmAiL iS jUst SoRt oF eLeCtRoNiC BeUrOcRaCy iSn'T iT?

  • @Picnmo
    @Picnmo Před 4 lety +4

    This lady...good god. Lack of vision and imagination.

  • @lanabyk8012
    @lanabyk8012 Před měsícem

    He had a good vision...but there is still more to invent and achieve...Its not done yet.

  • @nikhilprem7998
    @nikhilprem7998 Před 3 lety +2

    18:12 time traveler spotted.

  • @richard-social8125
    @richard-social8125 Před 2 lety

    There was a time multimedia was a just a dream in computing😅😅

  • @ravenswoods177
    @ravenswoods177 Před 2 lety

  • @latentsea
    @latentsea Před 3 lety +1

    I thought this Bill Gates guy was a medical doctor? Who knew he used to do computer stuff...

  • @doom9344
    @doom9344 Před rokem

    He is intp(Ti+Ne)

  • @saskiavanhoutert6081
    @saskiavanhoutert6081 Před 9 měsíci

    Bill Gates without him there wouldn't be: WORD, EXCEL, ACCES, POWERPOINT
    for example. Or so to say WINDOWS. Kind regards.

  • @davyroger3773
    @davyroger3773 Před 4 lety +11

    " What can a computer do that a book can't".... You can tell she thinks she's intelligent

    • @danielstenstein
      @danielstenstein Před 4 lety +8

      Or by presenting the argument she allows Gates to respond? Interviewers purpose is to get the interviewee to talk, one of the easiest ways to do that is present them with a statement they'll likely refute.

    • @davyroger3773
      @davyroger3773 Před 4 lety +5

      @@danielstenstein Throughout the whole video she asked her questions in an antagonizing manner, which is one of the worst ways to get an interviewee to talk

    • @nigainganinya
      @nigainganinya Před 3 lety

      @@danielstenstein And there are other ways of doing so such as asking rather insightful questions. Not that it means much at this point

  • @rossellagiovanardi9154

    Qui era giovanissimo.

  • @elementred2359
    @elementred2359 Před rokem +1

    she thought bill was mental / "bollocks "

  • @Maxq1
    @Maxq1 Před 3 lety

    Spoiler Alert: Susannah was wrong.

  • @alainportant6412
    @alainportant6412 Před 4 lety +2

    1992 called, they want their quality back

  • @richard-social8125
    @richard-social8125 Před 2 lety

    His telling a person who is way older than him about better ways of learning. Must be strange for her. This kid hasn't even had that much time to learn the things she knows. How could he possibly know better ways of learning?

  • @sakuntaladas8047
    @sakuntaladas8047 Před 2 lety

    Young

  • @AntarcticaTelevision
    @AntarcticaTelevision Před 3 lety +1

    Bill who?

  • @donbil5814
    @donbil5814 Před 4 lety +4

    Shes not very imaginative. Stuck in 1960 thinking

    • @most_researched_
      @most_researched_ Před 4 lety +2

      You can’t blame her, considering the timeline she was existing in

  • @XrpAndy
    @XrpAndy Před 3 lety

    Bill was just a poor millionaire here 🥺

  • @umachakraborty8090
    @umachakraborty8090 Před 5 měsíci

    Bill gates sir ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @bestof467
    @bestof467 Před 2 lety

    If Bill Gates was in my school he would be a different "thing"...

  • @SoulFlask
    @SoulFlask Před 2 lety +2

    He's realising that he has created a monster. Most of them do. In reality we all want to be back in the rainforests.

  • @simme4u
    @simme4u Před 3 lety +1

    This guy has no idea what he’s talking about. He’s probably flipping burgers nowadays

  • @quark238
    @quark238 Před 4 lety +3

    This host is what Pink Floyd has referred to as 'another brick in the wall'

  • @andrewkendall7814
    @andrewkendall7814 Před 4 lety +3

    6:28 Windows For Workgroups lol! Gates original notion of your own Personal Computer never really anticipated the Internet. Some visionary he was! Networking in Windows was always a dreadful bolt-on hack. Meanwhile UNIX, a proper, industrial-grade, networking OS continued to quietly evolve and ends up running most the world's web servers and smartphones in one form or another. Windows OS in all its incarnations has been an irritating nuisance for desktop users and in 2020 Windows 10 is almost unbearable with it's constant unwanted updates. DOS/Windows was/is a "toy" operating system that should have been strangled at birth. Microsoft's browsers, from day one, have been AWFUL, most people hate using them and are loathed by web developers for being non-standard. In short, Microsoft is a shitshow, on top of which it's given one man so much wealth he believes it's his destiny to fix the world with his vaccines, which he tests on Third World populations.

    • @makara2711
      @makara2711 Před 3 lety

      microsoft was simply focusing more on other things. nobody anticipated the internet boom, it just exploded and everyone joined in

    • @marcuswinston2522
      @marcuswinston2522 Před 2 lety

      Nailed it! 🌍🤺

  • @RMokros
    @RMokros Před 4 lety +3

    What a terrible reporter.

    • @scottsimmons9296
      @scottsimmons9296 Před 4 lety +2

      I disagree. She brought out some awesome answers from him

  • @azandamsimang2083
    @azandamsimang2083 Před 5 lety +1

  • @Wubbay828
    @Wubbay828 Před 9 měsíci

    I wonder if this is real lol

  • @revasambyal8970
    @revasambyal8970 Před 5 lety +5

    May God remove his spectacle

  • @SoulFlask
    @SoulFlask Před 2 lety

    This man knows nothing about feelings.

  • @novodkagohome9508
    @novodkagohome9508 Před 5 lety

    13:46 He forgot to say it was Xerox, not Microsoft.

  • @JoseLuis-uc2lo
    @JoseLuis-uc2lo Před 5 lety +3

    Here Gates reminds me of young Zuckerberg

    • @ronmiller3741
      @ronmiller3741 Před 4 lety +8

      Gates build much much more than a silly social network. Fb has hardly innovated in any new domain after that. Dont compare. Also zuckerberg gives terrible interviews and

    • @nenabunena
      @nenabunena Před 4 lety +2

      He comes across as human to me

    • @do-or-die5822
      @do-or-die5822 Před 4 lety

      @@ronmiller3741 without fb u would never be able to track ur lost friend from school or college..

    • @workdevice7808
      @workdevice7808 Před 4 lety +1

      @@do-or-die5822 What makes you think the long lost friend wants to have contact with you again? Normal people move on.

    • @do-or-die5822
      @do-or-die5822 Před 4 lety

      @@workdevice7808 this is how fb expanded.. People who lost contact reconnected..

  • @IamAWESOME3980
    @IamAWESOME3980 Před 3 lety

    this guy is the nerdyist and geekist person I've ever seen but damn, he is filthy rich and all self earned

  • @skywriter9359
    @skywriter9359 Před 2 lety +2

    I just prefer the genius of Steve Jobs. This guy makes money by killing off competition.

  • @inspirationalbalance5974
    @inspirationalbalance5974 Před 3 lety +7

    The biggest criminal of all time... but he is the world's most patient person here :)

    • @muhammadsameerdar1091
      @muhammadsameerdar1091 Před 3 lety

      He said : biggest criminal of all time. According to my opinion; he meant that “Bill Gates is the pioneer of computer software.”

    • @makara2711
      @makara2711 Před 3 lety

      what an idiot, please stop it with the conspiracy theories

  • @rosembentley9405
    @rosembentley9405 Před 2 lety

    ❤️