ClaimsBill Gates

“I pass items on to people for action.”

Bill Gates, author of the book excerpt 1999 Bill Gates' New Rules (Business @ the Speed of Thought excerpt) (Time)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Bill Gates passes items from employee e-mail on to people for action.

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Reasoning

Internal email handling practice known only to Gates and Microsoft.

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Bill Gates, “Bill Gates passes items from employee e-mail on to people for action.” (said 1999). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_c42ca652a099, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_c42ca652a099

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