A few months ago some people from Bill's team contacted us about a demo day that they personally give Bill every 4-6 weeks. This particular topic was on Agtech. They said they spend about 400-500 hours researching each market and preparing a 2-hour closed door demo day for Bill and a few of his advisors. For a particular topic they said they research the market and narrow it down to six or seven companies. They ask each company for a bunch of information and then his team gives Bill a 5-10 minute demo of each company followed by a question period.
This is probably just one of many examples how Bill is able to acquire information at such a higher rate than most of us. Quite literally he's probably spending over a million dollars a month on education. For the rest of us, we just have to read HackerNews :)
Are there any affordable services that do something similar for the rest of us? I'd love learning from someone who could give me a bird's eye view of industries, key players, challenges, etc. with the data and demos to back it up.
I wonder why they wouldn't record these demos and make them available to the general public. Seems like dissemination of this kind of knowledge could be very interesting and beneficial to people outside of just Gates and his advisors.
You may be sharing a lot of sensitive information that you don't want to show your competitors. Albeit, maybe the team could put together a superstar demoday with those companies afterwards.
This is probably just one of many examples how Bill is able to acquire information at such a higher rate than most of us. Quite literally he's probably spending over a million dollars a month on education. For the rest of us, we just have to read HackerNews :)