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Volksgeist | Bill Gates Does Control the World Actually

In 1999, a federal judge ruled that Bill Gates ran an illegal monopoly and ordered his company split in two. A Belgian anarchist hit him in the face with a pie. Time put him on the cover as a robber baron. Six years later, Time put him on the cover again, this time as a Good Samaritan, beside Bono.

Nothing was reversed. No court exonerated him. The receipts didn't change. The narrative did.

This is the story of how the most reviled man in American business became one of the most admired people on the planet — and an argument that he never actually changed his playbook. He just changed the building it was run out of. From the IBM partnership he was hedging against before the ink dried, to the browser war, to the foundation that turned a fortune into something harder to measure: influence.

A long-form video essay. Names, dates, dollar figures, and the documents themselves.

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Philip D'Amico

Volksgeist | Bill Gates Does Control the World Actually

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