Streaming giant Netflix released a three part documentary series about Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, a business magnate and a philanthropist. The series is named Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates and is created and directed by Davis Guggenheim. The series is a collection of interviews between Bill Gates and the director. It also features interviews by people close to Bill Gates, including Gates’ wife Melinda Gates and close friend Warren Buffett.
The series tries to explore the mind of Bill Gates and discusses the motivations behind his work. True to its title, the series explores much more than what is known to the public. Inside Bill’s Brain explores the personal relationships of the tech genius, while also discussing the philanthropic work he does through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The series, while talking about Bill Gates’ personal life, takes an indepth look at his relationship with his mother Mary Gates and talks about her efforts to make a young antisocial Bill Gates more sociable. The series also discusses the strained relationship between Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft’s co founder, as well as Gates’ experience dealing with the deaths of his mother, Paul Allen and childhood friend Kent Evans. The series also briefly discusses Gates’ obsession with books, with one of the former managing directors of Microsoft revealing Bill Gates “reads really fast and synthesizes everything.”
Director Guggenheim also explores all the philanthropic work undertaken by Bill Gates, namely his work on solving sanitation problems in third world countries, his efforts to cure polio and provide the world with clean nuclear power. The problems faced by Gates while trying to solve such issues are also addressed.
The documentary series explores every side of what is really inside Bill’s brain, which, according to Melinda Gates, is a place of chaos. Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates gives an interesting insight about how the mind of the genius works.