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.
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- 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.
- 2022
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2022)
Book-tour appearance on the GERM-team proposal and on living with pandemic conspiracy theories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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’.
- 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.