Bill Gates on His IQ, Capping CEO Pay, and the Stimulus Package
Okay, so he’s a billionaire genius who lives in a 50,000-square-foot $125 million mansion. But Bill Gates isn’t so unlike the rest of us. When he wants to unwind, he sometimes does so by trying to learn something new, through teach12.com, a 19-year-old, Virginia company that sells CDs and DVDs on courses on everything from medieval history to fine arts and music. So he tells Arianna Huffington, who spoke privately with Gates at this week’s TED conference, and who has just posted part of that interview at her site. The conversation is mostly. For example, Gates teasingly tells Huffington that if he doesn’t sleep at least seven hours a night, “my IQ gets lower.” More interesting is what Gates reveals about his views on the current economy, which has drained the
