Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Bill Gates told him his big bet on OpenAI would be a flop: ‘Yeah, you’re going to burn this billion dollars’

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by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
February 21, 2026
Nadella said despite the risk, “it was not that hard to convince anyone.”
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Originally published on Fortune on 2/21/2026