‘What a loser you are Dad!’, Anand Mahindra blames Bill Gates for his daughter calling him that

Team Udayavani, Dec 28, 2019, 11:29 AM IST

The chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, is one of the richest man in India, owning and running some of the best and profitable companies – something that we all know. But did you know that once his daughter called him a loser? And the reason was Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates!

Recently, a Twitter user posted a screenshot from the Netflix series “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates.” The shot (see below) shows Bill Gates talking to a group of top corporate honchos in India in 1997, Anand Mahindra is one of them (right edge of the frame; sitting right of Bill Gates).

Got to see while watching ‘Inside Bill’s Brain – Decoding @BillGates ‘ in @netflix. What was the intense discussion all about @anandmahindra ? When and where did this happen? Seems historic indeed. pic.twitter.com/mbFW6MVT41

— Ramesh Babu (@rameshbabua) December 21, 2019

Anand Mahindra replied to the Twitter user with a series of four tweets explaining what the meeting was about and how he expressed his ‘grudge’ to Bill Gates for being a loser to his kids in that meeting.

Well, it turns that both Anand Mahindra and Bill Gates were classmates at Harvard in 1973 and that’s how his daughter calling him a loser is related. Check his tweets below to find out the hilarious story.

Haven’t seen the series..Didn’t know this pic was flashed in it. Thank you for sharing, because this meeting was in ‘97 during Bill’s first ever trip to India & I had no record of it since there were no cell cameras at the time..Just a photographer from Fortune(?) magazine (1/4) https://t.co/StLthh0Kcr

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) December 24, 2019

Bill started at Harvard College the same year I did (‘73) and famously dropped out to start Microsoft. But the Microsoft team didn’t request this meeting because we were classmates; they asked to meet us because M&M at that time was one of the 1st adopters of WindowsNT 4.0 (2/4) pic.twitter.com/a8n4dOgLA7

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) December 24, 2019

Funny story from that meeting: When Bill entered, he said “So I believe we were at Harvard at the same time?” I said ‘Yes, we never met, but I have a grudge against you.’ His team froze, thinking they had arranged a meeting with a wacko! (3/4) pic.twitter.com/LH3UBdelNp

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) December 24, 2019

Bill kept his cool & asked “Why the grudge?” I replied: ‘My daughter asked which of my college classmates were now famous & when I told her your name, she said:’What a loser you are Dad!’ So thanks to you, I’ll always be a loser to my kids!’ We had a big laugh at that..(4/4)r pic.twitter.com/6ahkLwNqUm

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) December 24, 2019