4:53Bill Gates & 5 Anti-Antitrust Tips | Hustle Hot Takes #3
From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2021 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
The video analyzes Bill Gates’ 1998 antitrust deposition to extract five tactical behaviors for tech CEOs facing government antitrust hearings. Speaker 1 advises using body language (calm pose, guttural laugh, disdainful walk), stalling by demanding definitions (including “definition” itself), and forcing questions to move backwards.
Key insights
- Bill Gates’ deposition footage (10+ hours on YouTube) shows he remained “calm and collected” during hostile questioning, adopting an “I’m one of the two or three richest people in the world pose.”
- Asking the lawyer to “define definition” is a stalling tactic that prevents progress to hard-hitting questions.
- Deliberate, guttural laughter (with buildup) communicates “I’m cool, you can’t make me uncool” and sets a lighthearted stage.
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