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Cited on HN 3 times, 2019–2025, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

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

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

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@Razengan Oct 2019 Cites it

on HN thread 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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@maest May 2025 Cites it

on HN thread 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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@corobo Oct 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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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