Just leave it this way. Alright. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . For about 20 years or so, youve been the wealthiest man in the world. But because youve given away so much money recently, jeff bezos became wealthier. Do you think if you had stayed in college and gotten your College Degree [laughter] i mean, you dont feel inadequate now, being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . Bill no, i mean its a sign that i havent given the money away fast enough to drop out of the top 10. And, you know, the market has markets been strong. [applause] david actually, the market has been strong. Microsoft is up 35 this year. So, to what do you attribute that . Bill the company is doing super well. Satya nadella is a great ceo. You know, t
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were obviously very good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men, or . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 to 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class. Nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women in his class. And today, the Harvard Law School has about 50 women. [applause] david now, in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well, and you got onto the harvard law review, and you were near the top of your class, maybe first or tied for first in your class. B
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . So let me go back to the beginning of golf and so forth. I am not a golfer, i have to be honest with you. I took it up when i was nine, i quit when i was 10. Jack im not one anymore either. David but you were pretty famous in golf. It was too frustrating and here is what i cannot understand. Why is it some new people are addicted to something that is so humiliating and frustrating to so many people all the time . The ball never goes where it is supposed to go. Why are people addicted to it . Jack that is a pretty good question. I try to think about that, and its a neverending pursuit of an unattainable goal. Thats what it really is. [laughter] david right. Jack you could try all you want. Nobody has ever mastere
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . So let me go back to the beginning of golf and so forth. I am not a golfer, i have to be honest with you. I took it up when i was nine, i quit when i was 10. Jack im not one anymore either. David but you were pretty famous in golf. It was too frustrating and here is what i cannot understand. Why is it some new people are addicted to something that is so humiliating and frustrating to so many people all the time . The ball never goes where it is supposed to go. Why are people addicted to it . Jack that is a pretty good question. I try to think about that, and its a neverending pursuit of an unattainable goal. Thats what it really is. [laughter] david right. Jack you could try all you want. Nobody has ever mastere
Oh, hat cant be i have t you must be having a musical reaction to something. And showed them together. And then you went Royal Danish Academy of art, studied there, and then you moved to new york, but it wasnt until you moved back to europe from america where you began to start making art seriously. Was y sort of tied up wir identity that you were a european and you could only work properly when you got back to europe . Yeah. It i was a young artist. I started art school when the berlin wall came down. I was so optimistic, i said, ok. Im done. Why ever stay in art school . Let me just gew york anget it over with, so it was only when i realized, oh, this is actually a little hder. Maybe studying art is not so bad, after all, so i went back, and i realized, hmm, maybe being honest to myself, taking this se,ous, slowing down a b and this is sort of when i actually started, i say, to get more serious. And you are now a worldrenowned artist and particularly famous for your largescale instal