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Bill Gates Pie in Face

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A short news clip of Bill Gates being hit with a pie in the face in Belgium around 1999.

HN mentions it as evidence of how disliked Gates was in the 1990s, usually in passing or as a joke.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@maest2025-05 · in “My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth”

Gates was so hated during the early growth days of Microsoft, that he literally got pied in the face. ▶ this video

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@corobo2023-10 · in “Bill Gates Memorized Employees' License Plates to Track Them”

About a year after being pied in the face he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Maybe we should bring back pieing, haha ▶ this video

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@Razengan2019-10 · in “A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’”

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] ▶ this video

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