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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.

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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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.