Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and 12 other successful entrepreneurs reveal their daily "big ideas":

• Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and 12 other successful entrepreneurs reveal the best sites where they have their "big ideas" in the Masters of Scale podcast.
• Presenter Reid Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, explains that it is one of the questions asked by each guest on the program.
• His responses range from treadmill or from a dance studio to the Golden Gate Bridge.

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What is your favorite place to think of great ideas?

This is the question LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman asks each of his guests in the Masters of Scale podcast, from Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates.

In an episode of Stage Masters earlier this year, Hoffman revealed some of the answers he has gathered over the years. During this time, he discovered that Facebook's executive director, Sheryl Sandberg, is thinking better about the treadmill, for example, while Netflix's chief executive, Reed Hastings, thinks better about the living room.

Then there's Spanx Chief, Sara Blakely, who claimed to be an early hour every morning to be able to drive without point through Atlanta, precisely because he thinks better about the car.

For this reason, Zuckerberg, Gates and other 12 successful entrepreneurs said when they were asked about their favorite places to have great ideas.

Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky says his favorite place to have great ideas is the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's "his garden, going in circles"

CEO and founder of Minted, Mariam Naficy, choose to "run on the Golden Gate Bridge"

Reed Hastings, Netflix's chief executive, chooses dining room in Santa Cruz.

Risk capital, Peter Thiel, thinks it's better "a nice place in nature."

Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Medium, has great ideas while on the move. "Walking anywhere," Hoffman explained.

Company operations manager Sheryl Sandberg says he has the best ideas about the treadmill.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates explains that "walking and driving is, for me, a good time to think"

Classad's founder and CEO, Payal Kadakia, chooses "a dance studio"

Mark Pincus, Zynga's founder, thinks better about his surfboard or bicycle.

Co-founder of Flickr Caterina Fake did not have a favorite place, but a specific moment: "I have a strange program, there is a period, between 2 am and 5 am, where I usually think and I have a lot of work to do."

John Elkann, president of Fiat Chrysler, likes to think of nature. "On the one hand, you really motivate yourself to see what incredibly extraordinary nature is. On the other hand, it stimulates great ideas and dreams. "

Sara Blakely, Spanx's executive director, has the best ideas for the car to go to work. He gets even earlier than an hour to spend more time in the car.

The LinkedIn co-founder and host of the Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman, thinks better about new places for him as a canteen he has never done before.