Monday, January 28, 2008 6:09 AM
by
stevecla01
Presenting Bill Gates
Bill Gates spoke at the World Economic Forum last week on a topic he called Creative Capitalism. It has had (and will continue to have) lots of coverage, not least as some will find the topic slightly ironic coming from Bill. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you sit on though, it's hard to disagree that he is changing the world with his foundation and his efforts. Not single handedly of course as his wife Melinda and others such as Bono are doing as much and maybe more. Other more authoritative writers will comment better on all of this than me. I just stand in awe. What I did want to comment on though is the presentation
Garr Reynolds has been commenting in unusually positive terms about Bill's recent talks. I don't disagree with Garr on previous presentations and the fact that they're not in the same ballpark as Steve Jobs - it's a common comparison for the two giants of the software industry. Sometimes Bill is awesome though and like Garr, it's something I've been watching with interest of late. His delivery the last several times I have seen him has been outstanding. Check out the video above and then his CES presentation and his Harvard speech.