Bill Gates confessed that during His youth lived with different drugs and tried “many things” before the age of 20. The co -founder and former president of Microsoft He addressed the problem of narcotic substances in his last autobiographycalled “source code: my beginnings”.
On the occasion of the presentation of his latest book, which was released on March 4, the American tycoon serves the British environment the Independent in which he is asked of his relationship with drugs.
“Because my personality is a little optimistic and I am willing to take risks, I tried many things “ He has started saying the American for 69 years. Gates also confesses that “another thing about my personality is that I like that my mind works and is very logical. So I stopped consuming Even marijuana at the beginning of my 20 years “, claiming that” the next day I continued to live its effects.
On his relationship with Cannabis, Gates revealed it He consumed it during high schoolWhy “Maybe I would have a good look and a girl would think it was interesting” However, he says that “he wasn’t successful”, so he left him.
Your anecdote with Steve Jobs
In the same interview, Bill Gates said The occasion in which Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, invited him to consume LSD. “Once he said he would take the acid because then perhaps he would have more liked in the design of my products,” Gates confessed.
Apple’s co -founder invited the former Microsoft president to consume acid so that their products had a better visual design, which Gates replied that “he was wrong with lot”. In this sense, Microsoft’s Exco says that in this sense the works were superior to him, who envies his skills and that he was not “in his league”.
In addition, Gates invites readers to reflect and “pay attention” to these substances as a medical remedy, since their use is “fascinating” but this differs a lot from “recreational” consumption.
He went to the dentist under the effects of the LSD
Another of the reasons why Gates did not follow Jobs’ advice regarding the consumption of LSD, is that the founder of Microsoft had already experienced with acid.
Indeed, The same American magnate says that once he went to the dentist under the effects of this drug. Gates assures that his “journey was stimulating” but that he took the LSD “without giving a story that its effects followed in the morning” and that it went to dental surgery that had planned under its effects. “I was speechless looking at the face of my doctor, with his milling for drill, without knowing if what I was seeing and felt was really happening. I intend to jump from this chair and I simply go away? I swore that if I had ever taken acid, I would not do it alone and I would not have it when I had plans for the next day,” he revealed.
In addition, the Microsoft co -founder It reveals that she started experimenting with LSD while “I saw Kung Fu” with Paul Allen and other friends.
