Ken Lay, the former CEO of the energy and utility company Enron, was fond of writing letters to his friend George on stationery bearing his company’s famous crooked E.
Crossing out the “Dear Governor Bush” typed by his secretary, and penciling in “Dear George” in its place, he wrote to invite Bush to musicals, commiserate over knee surgery, thank the governor for a Christmas gift and lay out the “benefits of competition” that electricity deregulation would bring.
“We have already glimpsed this energy future, and it works,” Lay, who died in 2006 shortly after being convicted of a massive securities fraud, wrote to Bush in 1996, a year after Texas lawmakers had started to dismantle the electric utility monopolies.
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Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, has an estimated net worth of $129 billion.
He is the world s third-richest person, and he spends his billions on charity through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates spoke with King on January 1, 2000 about the future of computers. He made a second appearance on the show in 2010, alongside his father.
In his first interview, King asked Gates if there had been a turning point for Microsoft.
Gates responded: Well, it s hard to say. The most important thing we did is figure out how we could take all these computers from different companies, what are now called personal computers, and make them compatible, so you could buy from Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, any of the manufacturer, and run all the same software. And that was a huge risk, because before that, all the computer had made incompatible machines.