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What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The one area where the breakthrough isn’t taking place, and it’s tough, is very inexpensive broadband access to homes or even small businesses. The price of broadband has not gone down. And there’s nothing in the next two or three years that’s really going to change that. So if I had a wand and I could ask for one more hardware technology miracle, it’d be some way of having $20-a-month broadband to homes and small businesses.
Recorded Carol Sliwa, Computerworld interview, 13 August 2001 source ↗

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Not being able to start my own company

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