India’s youngest billionaire, Nikhil Kamath in his latest podcast hosted Tanmay Bhatt, Umang Bedi and Aprameya Radhakrishna where they discussed various topics from social media's creation and impact to starting up businesses in various world markets.
In the podcast, Nikhil revealed about his meeting with Bill Gates. Talking about his meeting with Bill Gates, Nikhil shared how he asked Gates about his views on focusing on mitigating climate change. Nikhil shared Bill Gates’ response, “He personally has like a bunch of tiers in which he puts his money, health I think is foremost for him then he has breakthrough energy so then I was asking him the exact same question I'm asking you guys- I said if you were to start over in life and you had a hundred million dollars what energy would you personally invest in, which energy company would you personally invest in would you go- renewable, would you go solar? would you go wind, would you go fission, fusion? So he said - out of the 16 fission companies nuclear, he probably is invested in about four or five of them and he bet on fission."
In awe of one of the world's richest man, Nikhil added, "But the incredible thing about him is ‘The Eclectic Nature’ of his knowledge, you know you can go from talking vaccine to talking climate to talking energy to talking everything. But very interesting conversations, incredibly incredibly smart individual."
Nikhil also revealed what Bill Gates said about the biggest opportunity that he missed: "He said the biggest opportunity he missed is losing the operating system to android."