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Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

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Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

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Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

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I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

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I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?

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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

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Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

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I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

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Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 10th, 1961

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