Bill Gates

Every recording

In order, from 1983 to 2025.

1. 1983

   Macintosh Software Dating Game

   Three months before the Macintosh launch, Steve Jobs stages a ‘Dating Game’ parody for Apple’s sales force in which three software CEOs compete for the Mac’s affections.

2. 1983

   Fall Comdex 1983 show-floor footage (cameo)

   VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin and a colleague walked the floor of Fall Comdex 1983 with a video camera, capturing a long demonstration of the not-yet-shipped Microsoft Windows three weeks after its announcement and, elsewhere in the footage, a brief appearance by Gates.

3. 1984

   Macintosh introduction promotional film

   An Apple promotional film produced for the Macintosh rollout in which Bill Gates appears alongside Apple’s engineers, saying Microsoft had been working with Apple on the Mac for about two years, praising its graphics and speed and calling it ‘a great machine’ many people would be able to afford.

4. 1985

   Windows 1.0 introduction and demo

   Period footage of a 30-year-old Gates presenting Windows 1.0, walking through its tiled windows and switching between applications. It is one of the few surviving on-camera records of Microsoft’s first graphical product at the time of its November 1985 release.

5. 1987

   Twenty-minute interview (1987)

   A twenty-minute interview with the 31-year-old Gates from 1987, the year he became the youngest billionaire and Microsoft announced OS/2 with IBM, Windows 2.0 and Excel for Windows. The program and interviewer are not identified in the archived copy.

6. 1987

   Microsoft Excel press questions

   A short news clip of Gates, glasses slipping down his nose, answering press questions at the unveiling of Excel for Windows, telling reporters it ‘really improves the quality of your output’.

7. 1989

   Talk on Microsoft and the software industry

   A roughly 90-minute talk to Waterloo students, rediscovered and digitised by the university’s Computer Science Club in 2007, in which the 33-year-old Gates recounts the microcomputer industry from the Altair onward, explains the 640K memory barrier and the 8-bit to 16-bit transition, defends Microsoft’s OS/2 strategy, discusses the Apple v.

8. 1990

   Computer Bowl II (West Coast contestant)

   Gates competes on the West Coast team (with John Doerr, Stewart Alsop, Charles House and Larry Tesler) against an East Coast team including Pat McGovern and Bob Frankston in the second annual Computer Bowl, a Computer Museum fundraiser hosted by Stewart Cheifet with Mitch Kapor as questioner.

9. 1990

   The Global Software Market (Computer Chronicles)

   A Computer Chronicles report on American dominance of the world software market at the start of the 1990s, shot at the SPA’s international conference in Cannes, with Gates among the listed guests and narration on Microsoft’s international strategy and Windows 3.0.

10. 1990

    ‘Information at Your Fingertips’ Comdex keynote

    Gates’s first great Comdex keynote, six months after Windows 3.0, lays out the ‘Information at Your Fingertips’ vision: a scripted demo of an easy, sound-enabled interface, home catalogs, a full electronic encyclopedia and pen computing, with Gates acting out conversations with harried professionals who wish for better tools.

11. 1991

    Swiss TV interview on Windows 3.0

    During a European trip, Gates explains to Swiss television what Windows 3.0 can do, ‘provided you have 3 MB of memory’, a short item from the Swiss public broadcaster’s archive that Microsoft Germany later used in its own Windows 3.0 retrospective.

12. 1991

    Computer Bowl III (official examiner)

    A year after competing, Gates returns as the ‘official examiner’ who reads the trivia questions, co-hosting with Stewart Cheifet as West Coast (Philippe Kahn, Heidi Roizen, Ed Juge, Dave House, David Liddle) meets East Coast (John Markoff, Pamela McCorduck, John Armstrong, James Clark, Samuel Fuller) at the San Jose Convention Center.

13. 1991

    ‘Windows at Work’ keynote, first Windows World

    Gates’s keynote at the first Windows World, the Windows-focused show co-located with Spring Comdex, pitching Windows 3.0 as a corporate platform (‘Windows at Work’) a year after its launch. The Computer History Museum holds a Microsoft-published VHS of the keynote in the James N. Porter papers; no online copy is known.

14. 1992

    Computer Bowl IV (official examiner)

    The fourth Computer Bowl, held in Boston, with Gates again reading the questions as official examiner; players include John Warnock, John Shoch, Heidi Roizen, Pamela McCorduck, Andy Rappaport and Bill Machrone.

15. 1992

    Spring Comdex 1992 (Computer Chronicles special)

    Highlights of Spring Comdex 1992 in Chicago, the show at which Windows 3.1 (released April 6) was the main story; the episode description lists Gates and Stewart Alsop as featured guests.

16. 1992

    Fall Comdex 1992 (Computer Chronicles special)

    Computer Chronicles’ Fall Comdex 1992 report, in which Gates says Microsoft ‘hopes to cover all the bases’ and describes software as an ideal start-up industry for a small country, amid the year’s multimedia hype.

17. 1993

    ETRE Barcelona 1993 (Computer Chronicles)

    Computer Chronicles covers the ETRE conference in Barcelona, with Gates visiting a groupware demonstration and discussing Windows NT and the growing size of the Windows code base alongside Esther Dyson, Philippe Kahn, Masayoshi Son and others.

18. 1993

    Computer Bowl V (official examiner)

    Gates’s third consecutive year as official examiner, introduced as chairman of the board of Microsoft, questioning players including Patricia Seybold, Mitchell Kertzman, Jean-Louis Gassée and Jerry Kaplan.

19. 1993

    Smithsonian video history interview

    A long, multi-session videotaped oral history conducted at Microsoft by David Allison of the Smithsonian’s Division of Computers, Information and Society, in connection with Gates’s 1993 Computerworld Smithsonian Price Waterhouse Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement.

20. 1994

    Computer Bowl VI, All-Star edition (West Coast contestant)

    Gates returns as a player for the all-star sixth Computer Bowl, on a West Coast team with Bill Joy and David Liddle against Mitch Kapor’s East Coast team, with Intel’s Andy Grove asking the questions and some participants joining by satellite from Redmond and Boston.

21. 1994

    NASDAQ and Microsoft television promos featuring Gates

    Short 1994 television spots in NASDAQ’s ‘stock market for the next hundred years’ campaign that feature Gates and Microsoft’s rise, comparing the company’s size to Xerox, Kodak and McDonald’s; off-air recordings from Cleveland cable.

22. 1994

    CBS ‘Eye to Eye with Connie Chung’ profile (the chair jump)

    In a 1994 CBS ‘Eye to Eye’ segment, Connie Chung’s profile of the 38-year-old Gates includes the much-replayed moment in which he jumps over an office chair from a standing start, a party trick that became shorthand for his restless physical energy.

23. 1994

    ‘Future Vision’: Microsoft Plus partner program video

    A roughly twenty-minute 1994 Microsoft partner-program tape presenting Gates’s ‘future vision’ for the company and its platforms, digitised from an out-of-print VHS for the Internet Archive’s VHS Vault.

24. 1994

    ‘Welcome to Microsoft’ new-employee orientation video

    A 1994 Microsoft orientation film in which the 39-year-old Gates tells new hires the company story: how he and Paul Allen bet on the microprocessor, why Microsoft focused on Intel’s 16-bit chip, how the mouse at first looked like ‘maybe we had made a mistake’ before selling hundreds of thousands a month, how Apple ‘bet their company’ on graphical interfaces and Microsoft bet alongside it by writing Mac applications, and why Windows 3.0 was ‘a major milestone in the history of the PC industry’.

25. 1994

    Fall Comdex 1994 keynote highlights (Computer Chronicles)

    Computer Chronicles’ Comdex special carries highlights of Gates’s opening keynote, in which he told the industry ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet’, used the stage to promote the forthcoming Microsoft Network online service, and screened the ‘Information at Your Fingertips 2005’ vision film, with Windows 95 due ‘next year’ and OS/2 Warp, Pentium and PowerPC machines on the show floor.

26. 1995

    Triumph of the Nerds interview

    Gates is one of the on-camera interviewees in Cringely’s three-part history of the personal computer, discussing the Altair, IBM’s PC deal, the Macintosh and the rise of Windows. The programme was broadcast in 1996 but the interviews were filmed in 1995.

27. 1995

    MSN UK launch event

    A little-known three-hour recording of the Microsoft Network’s UK launch at ITV’s London Studios in late August 1995: Gates on a panel with British TV personalities (Angela Rippon, Jonathan Ross, Carol Vorderman and others), a press Q&A in which he is asked about Clifford Stoll’s ‘Silicon Snake Oil’, and a full presentation of MSN with UK content.

28. 1995

    Windows 95 launch

    The full August 24, 1995 launch show for Windows 95, emceed by Jay Leno, with Gates demonstrating the Start button, Office 95, Plug and Play, the Microsoft Network and Internet Explorer 1.0, and Brad Silverberg closing before the ‘Start Me Up’ commercial. The complete tape surfaced online only in April 2022.

29. 1995

    Gates inside Doom (Windows 95 games promo)

    A promotional video in which Gates, in a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, is composited into id Software’s Doom to pitch Windows 95 as a gaming platform. It was made for Microsoft’s Halloween 1995 ‘Judgment Day’ game-developer event promoting DirectX and the Windows 95 port of Doom.

30. 1995

    Comdex Fall 1995 keynote (excerpts)

    Excerpts of Gates’s Fall Comdex 1995 keynote survive inside the Computer Chronicles’ Comdex 1995 special, shot on location in Las Vegas three months after the Windows 95 launch.

31. 1995

    Late Show with David Letterman

    Gates’s much-replayed sit-down with David Letterman: asked ‘what about this internet thing?’, he describes home pages and watching a baseball game online, to which Letterman replies ‘does radio ring a bell?’ and then ‘do tape recorders ring a bell?’.

32. 1995

    Fresh Air with Terry Gross

    A 22-minute NPR interview in which Gates discusses ‘The Road Ahead’ and how networked computing might change education, politics and business, framing the book as a prompt for discussion rather than a set of predictions.

33. 1996

    Professional Developers Conference demo clip (OnLive! Traveler)

    Footage of Gates’s PDC keynote demonstrating OnLive! Technologies’ 3D voice-chat world ‘Traveler’, preserved by virtual-worlds pioneer Bruce Damer.

34. 1996

    Charlie Rose

    A full-hour conversation in which Gates, then Microsoft’s CEO, discusses the future of the personal computer, the internet and interactivity, a year after the company’s internet pivot.

35. 1997

    Macworld Expo Boston keynote (satellite appearance)

    Steve Jobs’s first Macworld keynote after returning to Apple, at which he announced a $150 million Microsoft investment, five years of Office for Mac and Internet Explorer as the Mac’s default browser, and brought Gates onto a giant screen by satellite, to boos from the crowd.

36. 1997

    Comdex Fall 1997 keynote (excerpts)

    Highlights of Gates’s Fall Comdex 1997 keynote, preserved within the Computer Chronicles’ end-of-show roundup. The keynote came a month after the Justice Department asked a federal court to hold Microsoft in contempt over Internet Explorer bundling.

37. 1998

    Pie in the face in Brussels

    News footage of Gates being hit with a cream pie by Belgian prankster Noël Godin’s group as he arrived for a meeting with about 400 Belgian educators, business leaders and officials.

38. 1998

    Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competition in the software industry

    Gates’s first and only congressional appearance of the antitrust era: a televised Senate Judiciary hearing chaired by Orrin Hatch in which he argued the software industry needed no new regulation while Netscape’s Jim Barksdale and Sun’s Scott McNealy accused Microsoft of abusing its Windows monopoly.

39. 1998

    Charlie Rose

    Gates discusses standards of fair competition in the technology marketplace, responding to the previous day’s Senate Judiciary hearing on the Microsoft antitrust fight.

40. 1998

    Windows 98 ‘blue screen’ demo at Comdex Spring

    The famous moment when a Windows 98 beta demonstration crashed to a Blue Screen of Death on stage as assistant Chris Capossela plugged in a scanner to show Plug and Play; Gates quipped, ‘That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet.’

41. 1998

    Buffett & Gates on success

    Gates and Warren Buffett field questions from University of Washington business students about success, luck, risk and their careers, in the session that became Fortune’s ‘The Bill & Warren Show’ and the PBS special ‘Buffett & Gates Go Back to School’.

42. 1998

    Microsoft eXtreme Spring 1998 (video welcome)

    A VHS of Microsoft’s ‘eXtreme’ consumer roadshow previewing Windows 98, Outlook 98 and other products; according to the archive description the show opens with a welcome from Gates.

43. 1998

    United States v. Microsoft deposition

    Roughly 20 hours of videotape of Gates being questioned by government lawyer David Boies in a Redmond conference room.

44. 1998

    Comdex Fall 1998 keynote (excerpts)

    Excerpts of Gates’s Fall Comdex 1998 keynote, where he unveiled ClearType, survive in two Computer Chronicles episodes. The keynote came four weeks into the antitrust trial and days before the government played his deposition tapes in court.

45. 1998

    User-group presentation at Comdex (Office 2000 and more)

    A 76-minute tape of Gates addressing an Association of PC User Groups audience at Comdex on November 15, 1998, demonstrating Office 2000 and other forthcoming products, with a montage of show-floor interviews appended.

46. 1999

    Comdex Fall 1999 keynote

    Gates’s full Fall Comdex 1999 keynote, covering Windows 2000 Server clustering and remote management, Windows CE devices and Pocket PCs, and the new MSN start page.

47. 2000

    Xbox announced at the Game Developers Conference (report)

    Gates’s GDC keynote in which he formally announced the Xbox, showing an early prototype and hardware demos; this is television coverage of the announcement rather than a complete keynote recording.

48. 2001

    Xbox unveiled at CES with The Rock

    The moment Gates brought wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson on stage at his CES keynote to unveil the final Xbox design, ten months before the console’s launch.

49. 2001

    Earthquake interrupts a Gates speech in Seattle

    Footage of the magnitude-6.8 Nisqually earthquake striking during a Gates speech at a Microsoft event in Seattle on February 28, 2001; the audience flees as the chandeliers sway.

50. 2001

    ‘Playday’ internal comedy video

    A leaked internal Microsoft video in which Gates and Ballmer parody ‘A Night at the Roxbury’, bobbing their heads to ‘What Is Love’ in a car and a nightclub; made for a company event and later widely circulated online.

51. 2001

    Charlie Rose

    Gates talks to Charlie Rose about Windows XP, launched that day in New York, and the forthcoming Xbox.

52. 2001

    Antitrust settlement press conference (clips)

    TechTV clips of the news conference at which Gates and Ballmer announced Microsoft’s proposed settlement with the Justice Department, with Gates saying the company would accept ‘new responsibilities’ and reporters asking how much more it would concede to the holdout states.

53. 2002

    Charlie Rose

    Gates discusses the court’s approval of Microsoft’s antitrust settlement and demonstrates the new Tablet PC, launched that day.

54. 2004

    Charlie Rose

    Gates on the need for computer science in higher education and the future of Microsoft, taped as he finished a five-campus tour (Illinois, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Harvard, Cornell) aimed at reviving student interest in computer science.

55. 2005

    Microsoft and academia: a dialogue with Maria Klawe

    A 77-minute on-stage conversation between Gates and Princeton engineering dean Maria Klawe at the 2005 Faculty Summit about computer-science research, emerging technologies and the problems computing might help solve.

56. 2005

    A conversation with Bill Gates at Princeton

    Gates’s October 14, 2005 visit to Princeton, part of a fall campus tour, in which he discussed the changing role of computer technology, took student questions and received the Crystal Tiger award for global leadership.

57. 2006

    Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates

    Taped on the day Warren Buffett announced at the New York Public Library that he would give the bulk of his fortune, about $31 billion, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the three discuss the decision and what the foundation will do with it.

58. 2006

    Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates (second conversation)

    A follow-up hour with Buffett and the Gateses on Buffett’s $31 billion gift and the long friendship behind it.

59. 2006

    Microsoft Research 15th anniversary message

    A short video in which Gates reflects on the first 15 years of Microsoft Research and its future.

60. 2006

    Charlie Rose

    An hour with Gates on his coming move to full-time philanthropy, global health priorities and what he expects to do at the foundation after Microsoft.

61. 2007

    RSA Conference keynote with Craig Mundie

    An attendee’s audio recording of Gates’s last RSA Conference keynote, delivered with Craig Mundie, covering Microsoft’s security architecture, network access control, rights management and digital identity, with closing thanks to Gates ahead of his move to philanthropy.

62. 2007

    Joint interview with Steve Jobs at D5

    The only extended joint interview Gates and Steve Jobs ever gave: opening with the 1997 Macworld satellite clip, they trade credit for each other’s contributions, Gates says ‘I’d give a lot to have Steve’s taste’, they disagree about tablets versus phones, and Jobs closes by quoting the Beatles’ ‘Two of Us’.

63. 2007

    Microsoft Surface introduction

    A short clip of Gates presenting Microsoft Surface, the table-sized multitouch computer unveiled on May 30, 2007, the same day as the D5 joint interview with Steve Jobs.

64. 2007

    Harvard commencement address

    Thirty-two years after dropping out, Gates returned to receive an honorary degree and told the Class of 2007 that ‘reducing inequity is the highest human achievement’, recounting how he learned of the millions of children dying of preventable diseases and urging graduates to take on the world’s deepest inequities.

65. 2007

    ‘Inside the office of the future’ with Ali Velshi

    Gates gives CNN’s Ali Velshi a tour of Microsoft’s ‘office of the future’ prototypes, in a short CNN Money segment.

66. 2008

    Final CES keynote

    Gates’s eleventh and last CES keynote, in which he reviewed the ‘digital decade’, demonstrated Windows and Xbox products with Robbie Bach, and opened with the ‘Bill’s Last Day’ spoof video; only highlight clips are catalogued here (the spoof is a separate entry).

67. 2008

    ‘Bill’s Last Day’ spoof video

    The comic short imagining Gates’s last day at Microsoft, with cameos by Steve Ballmer, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others as Gates auditions for a post-Microsoft life.

68. 2008

    Farewell event on his last full-time day

    Gates’s send-off before more than 800 employees, former colleagues and family, webcast to cafeterias and offices worldwide: Ballmer presented a scrapbook and, in tears, said ‘Bill gave us that opportunity’; Gates, also tearful, said ‘my life’s work really is about software and working with incredible people’.

69. 2008

    An hour with Bill Gates

    Rose’s first full-hour sit-down with Gates after he left day-to-day work at Microsoft, covering the foundation’s early priorities, the financial crisis and the transition itself.

70. 2009

    Mosquitos, malaria and education

    Gates’s first talk as a full-time philanthropist, in which he opened a jar of mosquitoes on the TED audience (‘there’s no reason only poor people should have the experience’) and laid out his two big bets: eradicating malaria and fixing American teaching.

71. 2009

    Keeping America Great

    A joint student Q&A with Buffett taped the afternoon of November 12, 2009 and broadcast that night, a year after the financial crisis. The two friends defended American capitalism and foreign aid and fielded career questions from Columbia Business School students.

72. 2010

    Innovating to zero!

    Gates’s first major climate statement: the world needs ‘energy miracles’ to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, and he explained why he was backing TerraPower’s traveling-wave nuclear reactor. The CO2 = P × S × E × C equation introduced here reappears in his 2021 book.

73. 2010

    Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on global health

    Gates’s only congressional testimony of the foundation era (as of 2026), urging the Senate to fund the Obama administration’s Global Health Initiative and arguing that vaccines and maternal health were the highest-return uses of aid money.

74. 2010

    A Conversation with Bill Gates

    Isaacson, then Aspen Institute president, interviewed Gates about his optimism on health, education, women’s rights and the human development index, and pressed him on education reform: teacher evaluation, teaching to the test, state budgets and technology in classrooms.

75. 2010

    Giving Pledge roundtable on This Week

    The pledge’s founders sat for a joint Sunday-morning roundtable with Amanpour and Ted Turner (whose 1997 UN gift was a model for the pledge), the main network-television appearance of the Giving Pledge’s first year; the broadcast also featured hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer calling for higher taxes on the rich.

76. 2011

    How state budgets are breaking US schools

    A ten-minute argument that rising state health-care and pension costs were squeezing K-12 funding, using California’s budget as the example and calling state accounting ‘tricks’ that Enron would envy.

77. 2011

    Bill Gates (2011)

    One of Rose’s 2011 conversations with Gates on the foundation’s vaccine decade and polio push.

78. 2012

    Bill Gates on the Gates Foundation

    A 53-minute Rose conversation surveying the foundation’s work in mid-2012 (polio eradication, vaccines, agriculture and US education), with a brief detour into tablets and Microsoft’s Surface, announced two weeks earlier.

79. 2013

    Teachers need real feedback

    Gates argued that American teachers get almost no useful feedback (‘Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: satisfactory’) and showed the foundation’s video-based classroom observation work.

80. 2013

    Bill Gates 2.0

    Rose’s 60 Minutes profile of Gates five years into philanthropy: the reinvented toilet, a vaccine cooler that keeps 200 doses cold for 50 days, his reading habits (the famous bag of books) and, most quoted, his tearful recollection of his last visits with Steve Jobs.

81. 2013

    The Giving Pledge

    Three years after the pledge’s launch, Rose interviewed its three founders and signatories including Pete Peterson, Sara Blakely, Steve and Jean Case and Jeffrey Skoll about how the campaign recruits billionaires and what it has changed.

82. 2014

    From Poverty to Prosperity: A Conversation with Bill Gates

    In a 70-minute conversation at the conservative think tank, Gates made the case that foreign aid works, that capitalism and philanthropy are complementary, and that software will reshape jobs (‘software substitution’) within 20 years; he also defended the Common Core standards.

83. 2014

    Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we’ve done

    The couple’s first joint TED appearance, interviewed by Chris Anderson about how they decided to give away their fortune, the division of labor in the foundation, and raising children with great wealth. Melinda discusses the early Africa trip that shaped the foundation’s priorities.

84. 2014

    Stanford commencement address

    Bill and Melinda alternated at the podium, urging graduates to pair optimism with empathy: Bill recalled the soft-drink-can-sized ambitions of early Microsoft and the Soweto hospital visit that reset his priorities; Melinda described a Calcutta sex worker named Mina.

85. 2014

    Bill Gates on the Ebola outbreak

    An hour-long Politico conversation during the West African Ebola epidemic, in which Gates discussed the foundation’s $50 million response and what the outbreak revealed about global preparedness, themes he would turn into the 2015 TED talk.

86. 2015

    Drinking water made from sewage on The Tonight Show

    Gates brought Fallon water produced by the Janicki Omniprocessor, a foundation-funded sewage-to-water plant, and drank it on air; the clip went viral and became the public face of the foundation’s sanitation program.

87. 2015

    The next outbreak? We’re not ready

    Gates warned that the world had invested in nuclear deterrence but not in epidemic preparedness, modeled a Spanish-flu-scale outbreak and called for a standing response corps, germ games and vaccine platforms. Five years later it became the most-cited prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic.

88. 2015

    Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates

    A 55-minute three-way Charlie Rose conversation with Buffett and both Gateses about philanthropy and their work with the Giving Pledge, broadcast July 17, 2015.

89. 2016

    Bill Gates on climate change and clean energy

    A 55-minute Rose interview centered on the Breakthrough Energy Coalition announced in Paris three months earlier and on the 2016 annual letter’s energy theme (‘If you could have one superpower’).

90. 2016

    Peer to Peer Conversations: Bill Gates

    Rubenstein’s biographical interview covers the decision to license rather than sell DOS to IBM, Buffett’s $30 billion gift, and how meeting Melinda changed his life; it is one of the more personal television interviews of the decade.

91. 2017

    Warren Buffett and Bill Gates at Columbia

    The two returned to Columbia for a student Q&A one week into the Trump presidency, defending foreign aid, discussing polio tracking via sewage sampling and vaccine misinformation, and answering questions on artificial intelligence and the future of America. Buffett called Citizens United ‘a terrible decision’.

92. 2018

    Politico Playbook interview

    A 51-minute Politico interview on foreign aid under the Trump administration, the foundation’s priorities and Gates’s own meetings with the president; it was broadcast live by C-SPAN2 during his spring 2018 Washington visit.

93. 2019

    Al Jazeera English interview

    A 29-minute Al Jazeera English interview in which Gates explains the foundation’s work and responds to critics who question the role of a private foundation in global health policy.

94. 2019

    Squawk Box from Omaha with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

    Gates joined Buffett and Munger for CNBC’s traditional post-meeting Squawk Box, discussing Berkshire’s Amazon stake, Boeing, the trade war with China, Bitcoin and philanthropy; it is one of the few recordings of Gates, Buffett and Munger together.

95. 2019

    Bill Gates looks to the future

    A 45-minute audio conversation in which Anderson asks Gates how he chooses problems, why he is optimistic about global health, and what worries him about AI and climate; it previews themes of the 2019 Netflix series.

96. 2019

    Economic Club of Washington conversation

    Rubenstein’s hour with Gates before the Washington business establishment: why climate change must be addressed now rather than later, technological innovation, global health and philanthropy, plus the biographical questions Rubenstein favors.

97. 2019

    Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

    Guggenheim’s three episodes of 51–56 minutes (sanitation and the Omni Processor; polio eradication in Nigeria; TerraPower and climate) interleave original interviews with Gates, Melinda Gates, his sisters Kristi and Libby, Warren Buffett, Nathan Myhrvold, Vaclav Smil and Nicholas Kristof with archival footage, including the 1998–2001 antitrust trial and the 1972 death of his friend Kent Evans.

98. 2020

    How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic

    In the pandemic’s second week in the US, Gates told Anderson the country had to shut down for six to ten weeks, predicted vaccines within 18 months, and warned that reopening too early would restart the outbreak; the session became the most-watched explanation of pandemic strategy that month.

99. 2020

    How the pandemic will shape the near future

    Three months after the first TED Connects session, Gates updated Anderson on therapeutics, the vaccine race and the rise of conspiracy theories about himself, which he called ‘the strange thing’ of the pandemic.

100. 2020

     Bill Gates on the vaccine timeline

     A 24-minute conversation on the vaccine timeline and the still-unknown aspects of COVID-19, how the US government and private sector were responding, which resources Gates uses to learn about diseases, and his claim that the world would be ready for the next pandemic within five years.

101. 2020

     DealBook Online Summit: COVID-19 vaccines

     A 45-minute New York Times virtual panel, days after Pfizer and Moderna reported their first efficacy results, with Gates, Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and Vaccine Confidence Project director Heidi Larson on the results, how doses would be distributed and whether the public would take them.

102. 2020

     Singapore FinTech Festival address

     Gates discussed digital payments for the poor, the foundation’s Mojaloop work and vaccine distribution timelines in a virtual session for Singapore’s fintech conference.

103. 2021

     Bill Gates: How the world can avoid a climate disaster

     Cooper’s 60 Minutes segment launched Gates’s climate book two days before publication: Gates argued climate is harder than the pandemic and solvable only with breakthroughs in steel, cement and next-generation nuclear power (TerraPower), and conceded ‘I probably have one of the highest greenhouse gas footprints of anyone on the planet’, which he offsets.

104. 2021

     The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

     A remote late-night stop on the ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ tour, with Colbert asking about the microchip conspiracy theories as well as the book.

105. 2021

     The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2021)

     Gates and Noah discussed the climate book, green premiums and whether rich countries will pay to help poorer ones adapt.

106. 2021

     AC360: The Bill Gates Interview

     A prime-time CNN special in which Cooper talks to Gates about the state of the coronavirus a year in, the vaccine rollout under the new Biden administration, and the climate book published that week.

107. 2021

     The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster

     Gates walks Giussani through the book’s framework: 51 billion tons a year to zero, the five sources of emissions, green premiums, and why he backs nuclear, direct air capture and green hydrogen; he also answers critics who say technology optimism delays action.

108. 2022

     We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

     Gates returned to the TED stage seven years after his ‘next outbreak’ warning to propose a permanent Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team of about 3,000 people, costing $1 billion a year, previewing his May 2022 book.

109. 2022

     The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2022)

     Book-tour appearance on the GERM-team proposal and on living with pandemic conspiracy theories.

110. 2023

     Amol Rajan Interviews Bill Gates

     Rajan’s BBC interview, partly filmed on a foundation trip to Kenya, pressed Gates on his private-jet travel (‘I’m not part of the problem’), on Jeffrey Epstein (he said he regretted the dinners), and on vaccine conspiracy theories, alongside the foundation’s health work.

111. 2023

     Northern Arizona University commencement address

     Gates’s first solo commencement address since Harvard in 2007, built around five lessons he wished he had known at graduation, including ‘your life isn’t a one-act play’ and a plug for AI as the coming revolution. He received an honorary doctorate.

112. 2024

     How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year

     Anderson’s fourth long interview with Gates, on how the foundation allocates its roughly $9 billion annual budget, the AI tools it is funding for health and education, and what Gates has learned from 25 years of giving.

113. 2025

     Source Code interview on Today

     The network-television opener for the memoir tour, in which Gates discussed his childhood, the autism passage in the book, his divorce (‘the mistake I most regret’) and described Paula Hurd as a ‘serious girlfriend’.

114. 2025

     Source Code: My Beginnings (Book TV program)

     An 80-minute Book TV program titled ‘Bill Gates: Source Code – My Beginnings’, recorded at a memoir-tour event in February 2025 and aired by C-SPAN2 on February 17, 2025; it is the longest single recording from the Source Code tour.