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Bill Gates Pie in Face
About this video
A short news clip of Bill Gates being hit with a pie in the face in Belgium around 1999.
Why it appears in the archive
HN mentions it as evidence of how disliked Gates was in the 1990s, usually in passing or as a joke.
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He used to be reviled enough during the 1990s to receive literal pies in the face. [0] He has done some good of course, but some people tend to see anyone "giving away money" == faultless saint. [0] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Gates was so hated during the early growth days of Microsoft, that he literally got pied in the face. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗About a year after being pied in the face he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Maybe we should bring back pieing, haha [VIDEO]
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