Bill Gates told @satyanadella that Microsoft's 2019 $1B investment in OpenAI was the equivalent of lighting the money on fire. What did it mean for Microsoft to invest in the unproven nonprofit? "I didn't put in that billion dollars saying 'Oh yeah, this is going to be a hundred bagger.' That's not what was going through our heads." "We had a high risk tolerance and we said we want to go and give this a shot." From our conversation with him at GitHub Universe last month.