Bill Gates shows us how not to wear a suit.
It’s 1996, and Bill Gates, dressed in his signature look—wire-frame glasses and a crewneck sweater over an open-collared shirt—sits across the desk from a suit-and-tie-wearing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Leno’s pointed jokes about casual dress code prompt groans of sympathy for the rumpled billionaire.
“In the computer world, they were saying you sort of set a fashion trend,” Leno says.
“The trend must be not to pay much attention,” Gates replies. Then he continues: “When you really want to hire people who are the best, you can’t be too picky about what they wear.”
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