things are better. >> in the bill and melinda gates foundation's annual letter, gates predicts that by 2035 there will be almost no poor nations left in the world. coming up, we hear what these titans are doing to see that through. bill, i read through your letter and what i noticed in the tone was that you are very optimistic. you say look, we are better off than we were decades ago. where does this optimism come from? >> i think i am naturally optimistic but also i think the facts are on the side of the optimist. it is dangerous that people are focusing on the bad news and not seeing the progress we have made. it means they don't look at the best practices. it makes them less generous. we are raising poor countries up. most people live in middle-income countries now. there is more to be done on health and agriculture, but the track record success, if you don't see that you are not going to participate in what we need to do. >> you say that there will be no poor nations by the time we reach 2035. >> almost none. landlocked countries in africa, north korea if they don't change the gove

[ticking] you describe bill gates in very harsh terms. um, you've described him as being quite abusive. i mean, it's not a pretty picture. >> and i felt like when i wrote it, i should just tell it like it happened, in an unvarnished way, warts and all. >> you'll hear how the two high school buddies who started microsoft and a computer revolution had some pretty trying times along the way. do you think he came to think that you weren't working as hard as he was and it became a source of resentment with him? >> well, i think he was always pushing people to work as hard as they possibly could. >> you included. >> um, maybe me more than everybody else. >> you talk about his yelling--screaming. >> uh, there was a lot of yelling. >> you guys never understood! you never understood the first thing about this. i mean, there's no way. >> we'll figure it out. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we meet two silicon valley billionaires a generation apart who revolutionized the world of computing and the internet. facebo

>> for three days, i was reaching up to bill gates. >> and larry ellison was richer than bill gates for a couple of days. but you were there for three days. did you tell everyone when you were the richest man in the world? >> i did. [laughter] before i said it, i was sitting down. >> you've got a chance to tell them, and it was over. >> for three days we were $200 billion in market cap. >> and then came the crash. what were you after the crash? >> $2 billion. >> 99% down in one year. >> we went from 70 billion to $69 billion. >> did you have a doubt you could come back? >> i had a confidence. i had a confidence that our number of users kept growing, because our profit kept growing. it is overreaction either up or down. that was my belief. the internet will continue to grow. as long as internet users continue to grow, the traffic continued to grow, it will come back. that was my -- >> someone said to me the other day, google is going to be the biggest company in the world. mark my word. >> there is a good possibility for that. when ibm was growing, people said ibm. when microsoft was gro

bill gates got to start microsoft without an income tax.d it curious gates is supporting an income tax now. >> i believe the gateses have already made most of their money, so they wouldn't be taxed under a new income tax structure in our state. >> they wouldn't be taxed at all? no. >> well, for people who have already made their money and paid taxes in this state, that money wouldn't be taxed again. it's only for people who are earning new money in this state. >> well, that's ridiculous. i mean... i mean, my son will pay a huge, huge income tax. >> he will? >> come on. he's the richest man in the country. what-- >> no, but i'm asking-- >> how can anybody think he isn't gonna pay a huge income tax? >> what is the income-- >> what does a person with $50 billion have for income? >> it's on-- >> this conversation isn't making any sense. >> bill gates would pay multimillions in taxes on the income from his investments. he wants to. he's told you that. he's for this. >> well, "wants to" is a little strong. >> okay, he's for this. >> he is for it.

bill gates was offered $7.5 million to sell microsoft in 1979.e would have been a rich guy if he had taken it. even putting that aside, the impact on society would not have been the same. we had discussions with facebook about buying a facebook. zuckerberg knew what he wanted as an outcome and was willing to put in the blood, sweat, and tears. execution and measurement are hugely important. people let themselves off the hook. you have to get in the weight room. i don't know if that expression works at all. in american football, the most important thing you can do is get yourself stronger. a lot of companies do not do that. they are good at something and they don't build new muscle. they don't train. you have a small market share in the phone business, why'd you guys even screw around? we are in the weight room, baby. we are getting good. we know what it takes to make these devices. we understand what is capable and possible in the hardware. if you do not get in the weight room, then you cannot win the next generation. if apple had not been a hard

and admire bill gates. >> very much. heros. >> charlie: why do you think bill gates missed so much? >> he had a touch of fantastic success. >> charlie: with the operating system. >> with the operating system for the pc. >> charlie: right. and when you are so successful in one thing, you have something to protect. >> charlie: yeah. right? so it's very difficult to cannibalize. and he was retiring from the company. he no longer had the passion to go on to the next thing. >> charlie: he had other things he wanted to do in terms of philanthropy. >> right. >> charlie: someone once said to me about steve that, unlike others, he saw everything with a beginner's eye. he saw it with a freshness so that he would start from the beginning so, therefore, he wasn't incouplerred by the way it had been. >> he didn't carry anybody else's idea. he had to create himself from the, you know, pure eye of not the past, for the future. >> charlie: yeah. so that's what i admire the most, and he had tremendous focus. >> charlie: but are you more

bill gates was offered $7.5 million to sell microsoft in 1979.e would have been a rich guy if he had taken it. even putting that aside, the impact on society would not have been the same. we had discussions with facebook about buying a facebook. wantederg knew what he as an outcome and was willing to put in the blood, sweat, and tears. execution and measurement are hugely important. off theet themselves hook. you have to get in the weight room. i don't know if that expression works at all. in american football, the most important thing you can do is get yourself stronger. a lot of companies do not do that. they are good at something and they don't build new muscle. they don't train. you have a small market share in the phone business, why'd you guys even screw around. we are in the weight room, baby. we are getting good. takes to maket these devices. we understand what is capable and possible in the hardware. if you do not get in the weight room, then you cannot win the next generation. if apple had not been a hardware company, they could not hav

bill gates was offered $7.5 million to sell microsoft in 1979.e would have been a rich guy if he had taken it. even putting that aside, the impact on society would not have been the same. we had discussions with facebook about buying a facebook. zuckerberg knew what he wanted as an outcome and was willing to put in the blood, sweat, and tears. execution and measurement are hugely important. people let themselves off the hook. you have to get in the weight room. i don't know if that expression works at all. in american football, the most important thing you can do is get yourself stronger. a lot of companies do not do that. they are good at something and they don't build new muscle. they don't train. you have a small market share in the phone business, why'd you guys even screw around? we are in the weight room, baby. we are getting good. we know what it takes to make these devices. we understand what is capable and possible in the hardware. if you do not get in the weight room, then you cannot win the next generation. if apple had not been a hard

bridge buddies joining in richest man in the world, biggest oligarch of them all, if you will, bill gateshing what he says is the best tax system for all of the ref of us. -- rest of us, oligarchs always know what is best for everyone, don't they? gates loves the idea of consumption tax. listen to gates at american enterprise institute. >> idea that consumption should be taxed, i think that makes a lot of sense, people have tried to do that by doing particular tax on luxury goods that is very not -- not very econom effectiv. but, consumption should be progressively taxed. lou: wonderful. oligarchs can be inspireing, condition they? is it interesting they are seldom big on direct government taxation of either their wealth or their income. they always' to affect the lives of others, to diminish the rights of others to achieve their allegeed objectives. whether constitutional right or take home pay they have no problem diminishing either, how about a direct tax on the oligarchs? american oligarchs mr. putin please, i do know' any misunderstandings with you. only on american oligarchs to be c

he is right behind his friend bill gates aaron -- bill gates. bankunited has reached a milestone.udingity holders -- equity holders including wilbur ross and carlyle have made shares available to mutual funds. it is that a 52-week high and it has expanded operations into new york city. joining me is the bank and ceo of bankunited, john kanas. jim reynolds of loop capital is also with us. the did you think about endorsement for florida from john catsimatidis? >> we are sending john a check. >> i was trying to do the math, how many people can be absorbed? >> do not worry. they keep building. >> both of you have been in the banking industry for years. tell me how you think banking will turn out in the first .uarter >> i think it will be tough in second, androbably maybe all of 20. a lot of banks have been anticipating a rise in interest rates, and prognostications are based on levels of rates where we are not there yet. with janet yellen in the thrown, promising more of the same kind of monetary policy, i think it will be a while. rates are languishing at this low level for longer th

things are better. >> in the bill and melinda gates

are bill gates in your heart.and he wrote back and told me, no, i'm not bill gates, but i wish i had his money, i could give you a lot more. you know? and that was nice for him to say that. these are the letters that i get. feel this. feel this. >> that's what love feels like? >> that's what it feels like. one letter, i have some letters he writes 14 and 15 pages. if he write 14 pages i have to write 14 pages plus 7 more pages. that's why i like for him to write a lot. this is what i do. this is how i spend my time. >> from what i've observed, the monotony of prison is what creates a lot of problem for these inmates. by having this focus of writing letters and maintaining a correspondence with the man that he loved, this gave ernest a purpose, a meaning in life. >> this is my favorite one. >> read it. >> no. no. no, i'm not going to read that one. >> part of it? >> okay. okay. okay. it says, i just want to send you a card to let you know i love you and that you're on my mind. love always, daddy. he's my focus righ

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america's biggest backer of the core, bill gates, met with me friday, to fire back. did you know you were going to disturb such a hornet's nest? >> i think it's such an exciting thing to have high standards. to have quality standards and have consistent standards. i'm thrilled this is moving forward. and disappointment, through confusion and various groups, its implementation is at risk in some states. >> reporter: the opposition is fierce. >> this is the progressive movement coming in for the kill. >> reporter: supporters, forceful, too. >> to want to condemn our kids to a life where they can't compete, it's sick. >> reporter: with bipartisan backing from barack obama to jeb bush, the common core standards were adopted in 45 states. but many of those states are looking to delay or do away with the core, under direct correlation of teachers groups, and the tea party. you have a conservative element who says this is federal control over education. what do you say to that? >> the common core is not a curriculum. it doesn't tell you how to teach. it's not a federal take

neil: or go to the bill and melinda gates foundation and warren buffett is pretty good for his money ad his druthers that bill and linda are better than and that government? >> bad example make sense with warren buffett who is 82 and bill gates who is much younger with a philanthropic drive period that is the focus. but bill gates is not a capitalist anymore. but larry pager is four years old and elon musk is 42 he will give his money to elon musk? happily given enough money to him? with the stock at $270 per share? neil: if the rich had their druthers, they would rather do anything van give the money to the government. even with advocates for the rich to pay more if you are a billionaire that is different than the $250,000 club. with push comes to shove they would rather give it to another billionaire or a private foundation but not to the government. i find that to be fascinating. >> who can blame them? neil: but talks the talk and walk the walk? >> why would you want to give it to a government? how many dollars in the whole are they just with the old website? forget the rollout. it

things are better. >> in the bill and melinda gates foundation, gates predicts that by 2035 there will no

now if i had a family member killed by a drawer attack controlled by bill gates one of the 10,000 miles away i would be enormously upset. my question is what is the impact of these drawn attacks? there surgically upon successful , that's great. you read about these things were a family of six unskilled. one of those incidents set suspect so far. i just question the net effect of the drones. >> you know, i don't know. you can argue either side of those kinds of things. i don't know. i know what i would do if i were in charge. i would crank them up even more. that doesn't mean that you're not right and that what we're not doing is just tearing up a hornet's nest. .. >> you can figure a marine would give you that answer. >> how will the afghan army doing a better job of controlling, and i assume they are nonposture, but -- >> they don't speak the language. >> right, right, yeah, but are there significant numbers of of pashtun in the afghan military? >> i don't mean to be poly anish, but this is all triball. the pashtuns are 11 million of the afghans and believe it is their birthright to be

my dream was to have bill gates as an investor. goal to eradicate diseases and all his interests in science are fitting perfect with what we're doing. i met him in a secret place in france and he looked at it and loved it and invested his money. >> so you have done three rounds of funding. how many employees do you have? >> roughly 120 employees. >> what are the next stages or events? >> we're working on an open review so we can create away scientists discuss openly in a transparent way research results. it can help all of us if we have faster treatment for diseases, etc., if we are connecting the right data to the right people. >> peter thiel last night seemed to suggest some of these companies exit too soon, don't have the wherewithal to stay with them for a long time. what is your timeframe on an exit or ipo? >> i don't think about an exit. selling a company for me personally -- and you're not able to produce something long-lasting. this is something that the research can be one of the big successes. you need one big success, as

he replaced company founder bill gates, so he already has big shoes to fill.challenge for thompson and satya nadella, the man he picked as ceo, is to keep microsoft competitive in software, mobile, and video. >> the issue for us is about focus. one of the reasons we chose satya nadella as the new ceo is he has a strong technology background. he understands exactly what needs to happen to move microsoft forward. >> that means competing in the cloud. microsoft's website says it currently controls 50% of the market for enterprise class storage. amazon, google, and ibm mostly controlled the rest. thompson says he has the goods. >> microsoft has demonstrated an ability to provide a cloud-based platform on which others can build applications. on top of that, office 365 is a very successful cloud-based application. i think the combination of those things provide the foundation on which microsoft can clearly grow its cloud-based business. the other dimension of microsoft strategy is focusing on how we become even more relevant to consumers. devices and services strate

billionaire bridge buddy is joining in, the richest man in the world the biggest oligarch of them all, bill gatess now pushing what he says is the best tax system for all the rest of us. and oligarchs always know what is best for everyone? don't they? listen to gates at the american enterprise institute. >> the idea that consumption should be progressively taxed i think that makes a lot of sense, people have tried to do that by doing particular taxes on luxury goods and things like that, that's very -- not very effective, that's sort of picking favorite-type things. consumption should be progressively taxed. >> wonderful. wonderful. oligarchs can be surprising. they're seldom big on direct government taxation on either their wealth or their income, they always want to affect the lives of others, to diminish the rights of others, to achieve their alleged objectives. whether it's constitutional rights or take-home pay, they have no problem diminishing either, how about a direct tax on the oligarchs? >> only on american oligarchs to be completely clear. we'll call it the all-american oligarchy tax.

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what is it like to present to bill gates and how long was the presentation? took an hour and a half. at the end, he hands you a check? >> not really but it was a good feeling when i left. so i knew this may happen. >> did you know the amount? >> no. we discussed it over the couple weeks after that. >> you have done three rounds of funding. how many employees do you have? >> 120 employees. >> what are the next stage is? >> the next big event we are having is working on these open reviews. we want to create a way that scientists are discussing openly research results. because it can help all of us if we have faster treatments for diseases etc.. if we are connecting the right data to the right people. >> when you look at an exit, peter keele suggested some of these companies exit too soon. what is your timeframe? >> exit? i do not think about exit. i think about selling the company for me personally is a failure because then you are not able to produce something very long-lasting. this is something berlin is missing. research gate could be a big success. you nee

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bill gates regains his title as the world's richest person. he's valued at 76-billion dollars. tes knocked telecom tycoon carlos slim helu to number two -- worth 72-billion. here are some of the things they could buy: lanai island in hawaii. 8 lamborghini's. the new york yankees - twice. and the entire budget of the department of transportation and social security combined. could he by the tribune company? >> i don't know i think we do tip the scale. >> the early morning show does. >> we do drive lamborghini. but go to the radar. we have snow continuing across northern chicago. light snow showers today and we move to dry conditions. typical high temperatures are 42 degrees. we will be in the mid-20s today. we have a crash this morning having a bound on the kennedy. the crash in to land planes. expect things to be delayed their at foster just past the junction. otherwise the roads are looking good. >> coming up, former congressman mel reynolds speaks out after being kicked out of zimbabwe. >> yesterday's witnesses back to court today to of the blade runner trial. >> and the black

. >> if i had a time machine not would go to 1979-'78 and knock on bill gates at storm room at harvard and give him every penny i had because he was mark zuckerberg 20 or 30 years ago, steve jobs was in a similar position 40 years ago and genius doesn't come along that often and i think age doesn't matter n uc mark zuckerberg and that team running the company for a while. >> so your analysis of management and your stock picks, the company's you like, american airlines, united natural foods and -- >> i work backwards. continuous glucose monitoring devices, a device that attaches to the torso of diabetics and helps monitor glucose levels real-time which is incredibly important considering the way glucose levels can move up and down chris cotter cost it -- catastrophic consequences. the ceo has been there since 2005 and is an evangelist for the product and before he took the top spot he built a company in the medical device space that was sold for a significant profit so he got a fantastic track record and best in class technology and we own it in our small cap fund and diversified equity

folks like bill gates, maybe even oprah.hy not to his pont at least think of people outside the obvious? not as if we could do w take look around. we already are. tonight going long with the maverick temporary shored and patience is unning thin. he wants to shake up the nation once again. it's a pleasure to have you. thank you for coming. >> thank you. neil: i love the idea. i think it's brilliant. i don't know why it should be such a surprising idea. >> i don't know why either. because so many people are turned off the two parties. half the people don't bother going to the presidential election. there's a lot of cnicism. it leaves the washington bubble unpretushed. we need to injection new idea, new background, new agenda. and let's face it in, the next couple of years it's going take people of a lot of money. megabillionaires or bilonaires to get on the ballot to basically though the new idea sed on the experience before the american people to give them more voices annoys voices. we have the whole list of the 120, i propos