Tangent, but my favorite "Bill Gates does X" story is "Bill Gates Plays Petals Around the Rose":

https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm

https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm

HN has never found it very interesting though:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=petals+around+the+rose

That was fun. I should have kept track of how soon I solved it.