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Bill era atraído por indivíduos “difíceis” – de opiniões mais sinceras, ocasionalmente abrasivos, sem medo de resistir às tendências ou à maioria. “São como diamantes deformados”, coloca Alan Eustace. A amizade de Bill com Steve Jobs era um testemunho disso, assim como sua longa parceria com outros fundadores: Larry Page e Sergey Brin, do Google; S

The learning lesson for us all in these debates is this: the writer of digital code establishes the rules of user access to information.

financing projects that might fail, but might turn into a clean-energy breakthrough.

When Doerr asked about the volume of daily transactions, Bezos leaned over a computer and typed a grep command next to a UNIX prompt, instantly pulling up the data—and demonstrating his technical fluency. Doerr swooned.

Make a ton of cement, and you’ll get a ton of carbon dioxide.

We can recycle more materials and should be exploring new ways to cut the amount of energy needed to recycle stuff.

breakthrough wouldn’t even exist without a government spending tax dollars on research, policies designed to drive that research out of the lab and into the market, and regulations that created markets and made it easy to deploy at scale.