Bill Gates Pie in Face

npshive · 5M views · 2010-01-01 · 0:45

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Overview

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

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

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maest · 2025-05 · Reference
Gates was so hated during the early growth days of Microsoft, that he literally got pied in the face. [VIDEO]
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corobo · 2023-10 · Joke / meme
About a year after being pied in the face he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Maybe we should bring back pieing, haha [VIDEO]
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Razengan · 2019-10 · Reference
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] [VIDEO]
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