A conversation with Bill Gates

Stripe cofounder and CEO Patrick Collison sits down with @billgates to discuss his memoir, Source Code. Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded @Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is chair of the @GatesFoundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. This conversation was recorded on February 11, 2025 and hosted by the @ComputerHistory Museum in Mountain View, California. Video courtesy of the Computer History Museum Photo courtesy of Gates Ventures