Is Bill Gates really the way it is portrayed in the Netflix documentary or has a lot been staged?
How was it presented?
He was portrayed as an extremely intelligent person who only reads books for half a day and is always on the lookout for new technologies that improve the world.
Well, it's not that unlikely now. He seems to recommend books on Reddit every now and then. https://www.reddit.com/.../comments/
Well, as @SarahSchweiz wrote, no one can know that except the people who have had contact with him during the time.
But I could imagine it with him.
I personally believe that something is never as it is shown. I firmly believe that the truth is always in the middle.
He's probably reading a lot. But since he has children, he also has sex… So fun.
He may be very intelligent, but he is also not omniscient
He is not normal, but also not so eccentric that he lives on another planet
I would have liked to answer your question in more detail, but the number of characters is very limited.