Bill Gates shared with the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak advice he would pass on to his younger self early in his career.

Both answered AI chatbot-generated questions from the Imperial College of London on Friday.

Gates said in those early days that he was somehow “overly intense”. “I didn’t believe in weekends. I didn’t believe in vacation,” he added.

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That ended up excluding a lot of people who could have helped him at the time but “just didn’t fit in.” This is due to his “very narrow view of the working style, the speaking style,” said the billionaire.

That was ok for the little ones early on microsoft corp MSFT group, he noted. “But as we got bigger, I found, okay, when you add sales teams, when you add people with families, you have to think about it. It’s a very long-term thing,” Gates said.

“So I was very intense with myself and tried to apply that to other people.”

Gates said he could have helped himself if he had realized this a little earlier than the end.

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