Name: Learn English with INTERVIEWS — How BILL GATES Changed History
Uploaded: 2026-01-12T17:02:02.000Z
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Well, it's become a place where people are publishing information so everybody can have their own homepage.

Companies are there, the latest information.

Yeah, but, you know, it's easy to criticize something you don't fully understand, which is my position here.

But I can remember a couple of months ago there was like a big breakthrough announcement that on the Internet or on some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game.

You could listen to a baseball game on your computer.

And I just thought to myself, does radio ring a bell?

Today we're learning English with one of the most fascinating figures in tech history, Bill Gates.

He's not only one of the richest people on Earth, but also one of the most generous.

He's actually pledged to donate 99% of his fortune to charity through the Gates Foundation.

And in today's lesson, we're going back in time to the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s to hear Mil talk in three different clips about the early days of computers and his incredible journey making personal computers what they are today.

You'll learn tons of useful vocabulary about technology, business, and

also everyday expressions that you can use in any conversation.

We'll start by learning the advanced expressions from the clip we just watched where Bill is trying to explain this new thing called the Internet.

It's become a place where people are publishing information so everybody can have their own homepage.

When he says it's wild, he means it's crazy, exciting and developing fast in unpredictable ways.

You might hear people say, for example, that the changes in AI technology are wild right now, or say you feel that the city where you live has changed a lot lately.

You could say it's wild how much the city has grown in just five years.

A breakthrough is a major discovery or achievement that solves the problem.

Like during the COVID 19 pandemic, when a vaccine was finally discovered.

So the breakthrough that Letterman is referring to is that they broadcast a baseball game via the Internet.

To broadcast means to transmit audio or video to a wide audience, originally via radio or tv, you could listen to a baseball game on your computer.

When something rings a bell, it means it sounds familiar.

A while back, I was assigned to keep tabs on a musician, Mick Jagger, who's in this British band, Rolling Stones.

We believed he was on the planet to breed with Earth women.

No, my memory's a little fuzzy, but your face rings a bell.

So in the clip, Letterman is actually being sarcastic.

He's basically saying, wait, don't we already have something that broadcasts baseball games?

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Now let's watch the next clip from way back in 1984.

Here we meet a much younger Bill Gates, talking about the early days of Microsoft, why money isn't his main motivation, and

how he avoids burnout in such an intense industry.

He taught himself programming at the age of 13, was a dropout at Harvard, and

started the company we've just described at the age of 19.

What are your annual revenues at Microsoft?

We're expecting to do just over 100 million this year.

At what age did you yourself become a millionaire?

Well, Microsoft's a company owned primarily by its employees, and

Are you kind of half telling me, though, that you're not in it for the money?

I don't think anyone at the company is in it for the money.

It's a much more exciting field than trying to measure exactly how much we're selling or how much it's.

The creation of these programs is something you can sit down and see people enjoying and solving real problems.

If you had stayed at Harvard a few more years, would this computer revolution have passed you by, perhaps.

Things moved very quickly in the industry and it was really the urgency to get out there and be the first one to put a BASIC on the microcomputer that caused me to drop out.

Well, no, I don't think that embarrassed you at all.

Part of your genius is that you are a computer whiz and the other is that you did have the business acumen to turn it into a working company.

I enjoy working with the people, talking about what we're going to get done, getting real excited, making sure that the structure is there, that the ideas get measured properly, and

At the age of 28, in a field of work world, burnout is common.

Are you going to burn out before you're 30?

It's not like we're doing the same thing all day long.

We go into our offices and think up new programs.

We get together in meetings, we go out and see end users, we talk to customers.

There's so much variety and there's always new things going on.

And I don't think there'll ever come a time when that would be boring.

He taught himself programming at the age of 13, was a dropout at Harvard.

A computer whiz is someone who is extremely skilled and talented with computers.

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