so they re not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. so we re by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. ..a vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life that s purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust don t know what to do with this cash? i not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what health systems work, which ones don t. i, you know, find the work very fulfilling. i get to learn new things. get to go to interesting places. yeah. there s no sacrifice involved. it s. well, it s quite a lot of financial sacrifice! sure, but i don t have any use for that money. i mean, i m not denying myself, you know, the wor
think it is early admittance we are seeing nai. tesla is probably one of the best ai out there. clearly, execution is going to be the key over the coming years, but i think investors more and more starting to appreciate that tesla and musk are playing chess while others are playing checkers. ~ , ., , checkers. when you re sitting execution checkers. when you re sitting execution is checkers. when you re sitting execution is going checkers. when you re sitting execution is going to - checkers. when you re sitting execution is going to be - checkers. when you re sitting execution is going to be key, | execution is going to be key, what are some of the challenges that you re looking at when comes to hand him with these kind of ambitious targets? i think it starts with full self driving. i think that is an elephant in the room. tesla, really, as an ai play, showing fst, capability for that to scale. audio loss that s going to be key. when you look at monetising it but sca
I m fascinated by the combination of factors that make great entrepreneurial success. so there s key partnerships, in your case with paul allen, your co founder. there s a sense of vision, a sense of purpose, a huge work ethic and also a sense of timing, being in the right place at the right time. when you think now, with the benefit of experience, about that magic mix that makes great entrepreneurs, what do you think is the vital ingredient? well, i think it takes most all of those to be there all at the same time. we recognised something that very few did, which was that the software would be quite valuable, that the hardware would get so cheap, that actually, the software piece would be important and that the computers wouldn tjust be this big, expensive thing that only big companies had it would literally be, as we said people laughed at the time on every desk, in every home. and it was one of the things that made microsoft so wealthy so quickly, that you were first.