Bill Gates enjoys music as much as the next person. But according to Paul Tollett, the founder of the uber-successful music festival Coachella, the billionaire philanthropist can't help but indulge his nerdier side.
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Bill Gates once gave Coachella's founder a grave warning about how the festival could go wrong
Even at Coachella — an event founded on care-free living — the billionaire philanthropist reportedly had some thoughts on deadly pandemics.
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Tollett, speaking to New Yorker writer John Seabrook for a recent profile, said Gates actually found the time to attend (or at least stop by) Coachella one year. (Some photo evidence suggests it might have been 2015.)
Initially, Gates remarked the festival could "last forever," as Seabrook writes, but he quickly amended the statement, listing the various "isms" that could spell disaster for the crowd of 99,000.
Such a deadly pandemic hasn't occurred in recent history, Gates concedes, but he also says that should provide no comfort as to the possibility of one happening in the future — at Coachella or otherwise.
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