Bill Gates

And then my full-time work is the Gates Foundation, where we're always coming up with new vaccines, new drugs. We're even trying to come up with a way to cure HIV so you don't have to keep taking the medicine there. And I'd say the current work to understand why kids get malnourished is the thing I'm most excited about.

40% of kids in Africa don't develop their body or their brain and understanding, okay, what is it? They're getting enough calories, but there's something about that mix that You know, they never achieve their potential, either for themselves individually or for the country that they're part of.

40% of kids in Africa don't develop their body or their brain and understanding, okay, what is it? They're getting enough calories, but there's something about that mix that You know, they never achieve their potential, either for themselves individually or for the country that they're part of.

So I've gotten to be—there's so many cool innovations, and the pace of all of that is going faster today than ever in my lifetime. So it's a real privilege to work with innovators and back some of them on things like malaria or malnutrition, which the market— doesn't get resources to do that work. And that's where philanthropy can make a very dramatic difference.

So I've gotten to be—there's so many cool innovations, and the pace of all of that is going faster today than ever in my lifetime. So it's a real privilege to work with innovators and back some of them on things like malaria or malnutrition, which the market— doesn't get resources to do that work. And that's where philanthropy can make a very dramatic difference.

I take a lot of vacations near beaches and I enjoy whoever I'm with, getting two or three hours walking on the beach. That's a great way to get updates from my kids and have them share what they're doing. I will say the forest hiking that I did as a child up in the Seattle area, it's called the Olympic Peninsula there. There's just unbelievable hikes.

I take a lot of vacations near beaches and I enjoy whoever I'm with, getting two or three hours walking on the beach. That's a great way to get updates from my kids and have them share what they're doing. I will say the forest hiking that I did as a child up in the Seattle area, it's called the Olympic Peninsula there. There's just unbelievable hikes.

And even though in that group of boys, I was the least capable hiker and I would always vote for the shortest hike and going home the soonest, just the camaraderie and the kind of beauty, you know, was so stunning. I really have to get back and do some of those. I haven't done a lot of that since I was young.

And even though in that group of boys, I was the least capable hiker and I would always vote for the shortest hike and going home the soonest, just the camaraderie and the kind of beauty, you know, was so stunning. I really have to get back and do some of those. I haven't done a lot of that since I was young.

Yeah, I got myself so busy. I mean, you know, starting with Microsoft, where I had a monomaniacal focus, you know, kind of giving up weekends and vacation because I wanted to move faster. It wasn't some big sacrifice. I loved it, but it meant that I shut a lot of other things out.

Yeah, I got myself so busy. I mean, you know, starting with Microsoft, where I had a monomaniacal focus, you know, kind of giving up weekends and vacation because I wanted to move faster. It wasn't some big sacrifice. I loved it, but it meant that I shut a lot of other things out.

Then only when I retired from Microsoft did I get to go back and take a little more time off and see all the other great things going on in the world, including all this health stuff that is the thing I spend the most time on now.

Then only when I retired from Microsoft did I get to go back and take a little more time off and see all the other great things going on in the world, including all this health stuff that is the thing I spend the most time on now.

No, I think for Microsoft to be successful, even though we were the first and we had a broader concept of software than the other companies, we needed to be what I would call hardcore. And, you know, in that case, the work is what I want to do. It's not like, oh God, you know, I've got to earn a little bit more money.

No, I think for Microsoft to be successful, even though we were the first and we had a broader concept of software than the other companies, we needed to be what I would call hardcore. And, you know, in that case, the work is what I want to do. It's not like, oh God, you know, I've got to earn a little bit more money.

It's, you know, this is the thing that throughout my childhood, I was so lucky, you know, because of my parents and some early friends, school I went to, I had these exposures to computers that were very rare. And so I had all these thousands of hours of programming experience and great feedback on, okay, how do you do it better from the very best adults? I got to see what was coming.

It's, you know, this is the thing that throughout my childhood, I was so lucky, you know, because of my parents and some early friends, school I went to, I had these exposures to computers that were very rare. And so I had all these thousands of hours of programming experience and great feedback on, okay, how do you do it better from the very best adults? I got to see what was coming.

And the idea of being part of making that real I woke up and said, okay, I'd love to get to work. My younger self could stay in days at a time. I don't do that now. But then it was just in no way a hardship because I felt we were part of something that would be very empowering. And competitively, I wanted us to be the ones to make it happen.

And the idea of being part of making that real I woke up and said, okay, I'd love to get to work. My younger self could stay in days at a time. I don't do that now. But then it was just in no way a hardship because I felt we were part of something that would be very empowering. And competitively, I wanted us to be the ones to make it happen.

Well, people, when they would hear us say a computer on every desk and in every home running Microsoft software, they were like, you kids are really out of it. I mean, every desk, every home, what would people do with these things? But because the chips were improving exponentially, doubling every couple of years, it allowed us to think of the computing part as essentially being free.