Gates, 68, said he intends to work for at least two more decades, if his health allows, and thus follow in the footsteps of 94-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
This is because retirement “sounds terrible” for Gates, Father of three children.
“My friend Warren Buffett still comes to the office six days a week,” Gates said CNBC does it in an interview published over the weekend. “So I hope my health allows me to be like Warren.”
However, Buffett is well aware that time is moving forward.
Following the Death of his friend and right-hand man Charlie Mungerin November last year, Buffett has spoken several times about what to do with his 145 billion dollars in assets.
This included an inspection of his will and confirmation that after his death No additional funding will be provided to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates is committed to continuing the work for this foundation for decades to come.
The foundation has more than 53 billion US dollars since 2000, hope to help with topics such as Eradication of polioWater sanitation and agricultural development.
But there are still many milestones to be achieved, and Gates is determined to do his part to help achieve them.
“The [Bill & Melinda Gates] The foundation will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year. We have not defeated polio, we have not defeated malaria. I am very, very committed to these things,” says Gates. “We want to halve child mortality again, from 5 million to 2.5 million.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, achieving this goal will require a lot of work, and Gates is aiming to “work at this level for at least ten years, health permitting.”
“Hopefully it will be more like 20 or 30,” he added.
Change of tempo
While Gates intends to continue to operate at a high level, he will not do so with the same tenacity as when he founded Microsoft.
As Gates launched the $2.99 trillion behemoth with his childhood friend Paul Allen, he stood in his office overlooking the parking lot and watched which of his employees would leave first.
Sleeping as little as possible became a kind of competition with peersthe man worth 157 billion US dollars said in his podcast Don’t confuse me with Bill Gates last year.
The tech tycoon told comedian Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen: “In my thirties and forties, when it came to the topic of sleep, the answer was, ‘Oh, I only sleep six hours.’
“And the other guy says, ‘Oh, I only sleep five times,’ and then, ‘Well, sometimes I don’t sleep at all.’ I would say, ‘Wow, those guys are so good, I have to try harder because sleep is laziness and unnecessary.'”
Since then, Gates has changed his mind and says CNBC: “I don’t work that hard 1725877920. In my 20s, I didn’t believe in weekends and holidays. So, that was somehow out of controlhow hard I tried.”
In his podcast with Rogen and Miller Rogen last August, Gates talked about Alzheimer’s, a topic that remains close to his heart.
Bill Gates Sr. died at home in September 2020 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease that began more than a decade ago.
“I spent yesterday with Alzheimer’s disease,” Gates said CNBC“Intellectually, in terms of keeping up to date – even just on [artificial intelligence] alone – takes a lot of time. But it is still incredibly fulfilling.”